Director, Finance - Real Estate Finance at Crusoe · LumiJobs

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Crusoe is the AI factory company, on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Crusoe designs, builds, and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure — from energy generation and land acquisition to AI-optimized data center campuses and Crusoe Cloud, its AI cloud platform. With a development pipeline exceeding tens of GWs across multiple U.S. campuses, real estate, land, and power siting decisions sit at the foundation of every project Crusoe brings to market.
What You'll Be Working On:
Crusoe is looking for a Director of Real Estate, Land & Leases Finance to own the financial due diligence, commercial structuring, and lifecycle management of land and real estate transactions underpinning Crusoe's data center campuses. This role is the finance owner for every site from initial acquisition or lease negotiation, ensuring each land or lease deal is financeable with corp dev, appropriately structured, and tracked against its underlying economics over time.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role suited to someone who can move fluidly between deal due diligence, financial modeling, negotiation support, and long-term asset tracking, in a company where land and power access are often the binding constraint on how fast infrastructure gets built.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
Lead financial due diligence on prospective land acquisitions, ground leases, and site control agreements — evaluating cost basis, tax implications, entitlement risk, and site-level economics.
Partner with Legal, Real Estate, and Power teams to assess title, easements, zoning, utility access, and environmental factors that affect deal viability and financing.
Build site-level financial models (acquisition cost, ground lease economics, property tax, incentive/abatement value) to support go/no-go TCO investment decisions.
Partner with Real Estate, Legal, HR and others on our international strategy.
Commercial Structure Support
Advise on and help negotiate land purchase agreements, ground leases, option agreements, and related real estate instruments, ensuring terms align with Crusoe's financing strategy and return requirements.
Structure deals to optimize for financeability — working with capital markets/project finance teams on how land ownership vs. lease structures affect debt sizing, credit packages, and investor requirements.

Director, Finance - Real Estate Finance

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