Compensation Partner - Manufacturing

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. About the Role: As a Compensation Partner, you will be a key member of our Total Rewards team, providing specialized compensation support for Crusoe's Manufacturing organization and international employee populations. In this role, you will work alongside and provide thought partnership to the Director, Compensation and the VP, Rewards. You will partner with Manufacturing leaders, HR Business Partners, recruiters, and cross-functional colleagues to deliver practical, compliant, and competitive compensation solutions across a diverse and complex workforce. This is a highly visible, hands-on role for a proactive self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where creative problem-solving is a daily requirement. What You'll Be Working On: - Support Manufacturing Compensation - Serve as the primary compensation partner for Crusoe's US Manufacturing organization, supporting a workforce that includes non-exempt, trade, and specialized roles across multiple sites. - Provide guidance on job architecture, leveling, and pay positioning for hourly and skilled trade classifications. - Ensure compensation programs reflect applicable federal and state wage and hour requirements, including proper application of overtime rules, shift differentials, and other pay premiums. - Partner with People Partners and Manufacturing leaders to evaluate and price new and evolving roles as the business scales, using both market data and internal equity frameworks. - Support International Compensation - Serve as a key resource for compensation across Crusoe's international teams in Ireland, Iceland, Israel, and other non-US sites. - Navigate compensation benchmarking with limited third-party data sources by developing creative approaches to market pricing, including leveraging local surveys, cost-of-labor indices, published statutory data, and qualitative market intelligence. - Ensure pay structures across international locations are organized appropriately across pay elements, including base pay, overtime, statutory and supplemental allowances, holiday bonuses, and other location-specific components. - Monitor and maintain compliance with local pay regulations, mandatory pay requirements, and evolving statutory obligations across each country of operation. - Partner with Legal, Finance, and external advisors as needed to navigate country-specific complexity. - Facilitate Job Architecture and Pay Program Execution - Develop deep expertise in Crusoe's job architecture framework and partner with stakeholders to ensure it continues to evolve with the business, including expansion into non-exempt and international role classifications. - Support execution of core compensation programs, including compensation cycles, bonus allocation, equity refresh, and spot bonuses, with a focus on ensuring M