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About the Role

As a Senior Variable Compensation Manager on the Total Rewards team, you will provide strategic and operational support for Crusoe’s variable compensation programs. This highly visible, hands-on role requires a proactive and self-starting professional to design and deliver data-driven solutions in a fast-paced startup environment, building incentive programs from inception to operationalization. Success requires contextualizing ambiguous requests, leveraging advanced analytical and modeling skills to produce simple, reliable, data-driven insights, and thinking outside the box to deliver custom solutions.

Responsibilities

Participate in the strategy, design, implementation and ongoing improvement of traditional (GTM) and non traditional incentive programs.
Lead end-to-end administration and governance of incentive programs, including drafting plan documentation, modeling, achievement calculations, validation, and payout execution.
Serve as a point of accountability for incentive plan accuracy, compliance, and operational integrity.
Ensure all employees on a variable plan have a signed plan document in a smooth and trackable fashion.
Analyze program effectiveness, cost, and performance outcomes, proactively surfacing insights and recommendations to leadership.
Conduct market research and cost modeling to help design competitive incentive programs for non-direct sales groups.
Partner with Finance, Accounting, and RevOps to ensure accurate compensation forecasting, accruals, and budget management.
Collaborate with Internal Communications and HR to effectively roll out and educate managers and eligible employees on variable compensation programs.
Deliver complex modeling of ambiguous plan design.
Navigate data integrity issues to produce reliable insights.
Partner with HRIS and People Analytics to design, build, and maintain compensation dashboards for market positioning and budget utilization.
Help improve data integrity and optimize HR tech stack functionality for incentives tracking and accuracy.
Explore and pilot AI and automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and enhance predictive analytics capabilities.
Develop measurable metrics to track incentive program performance.

Requirements

7+ years of compensation experience, with a mix of startup and large tech company experience.
Fast-paced startup experience preferred.
Experience with end-to-end ownership of incentive programs including design, modeling, and administration is a strong plus.
Experience with presenting and influencing senior leadership preferred.
Modeling/forecasting experience is a key competency.
Proven ability to work autonomously and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives.

Skills

Exceptional analytical skills
Proficiency in spreadsheet software
Experience with large datasets
Ability to navigate data integrity issues effectively
Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts and present recommendations to diverse audiences, including senior leaders.
Proficiency with HRIS systems (Rippling, Workday, Pave) preferred.

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$175,000 - $215,000 + Bonus

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowance
Additional perks & programs specific to location

About the Company

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads.
When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time.
The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck.
We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

Equal Opportunity

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.