IT Lead

WE’RE FINANCING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Crux is the capital platform for the clean economy. We modernize capital raising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure with solutions across advisory, investments, technology, and intelligence. Our team of 120+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures. AN INFLECTION POINT IN AMERICAN ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING Energy demand is growing for the first time in decades, driving an urgent need for more affordable and reliable electricity. More electricity requires new clean energy infrastructure and strong domestic supply chains for minerals and components — as well as large amounts of capital. Traditional project financing is opaque, fragmented, and analog. At Crux, we’re changing that. Through unmatched insights and expertise, white-glove service, purpose-built tools, and risk underwriting, we power a more prosperous, clean, and secure energy future. We are scaling quickly and looking for team members who are eager to combine deep expertise with an AI- and tech-forward mindset. ABOUT THE ROLE Crux is hiring an IT Lead to own all vendor procurement, contracts, provisioning, and IT strategy, as well as the full employee technology experience across software and hardware. If technology blocks or enables someone's work at Crux, this person owns it, including execution of security policy. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own employee SSO provisioning for new-hire onboarding as well as offboarding - Drive faster turnaround on SOC2 audit requests - Audit all systems, identify usage patterns, and find cost-cutting opportunities - Vendor renegotiation cadence - Device management & endpoint tooling WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 4–7 years of experience in IT at a high-growth startup, ideally as the sole or primary IT owner — not one of many on a team - Hands-on depth with the modern startup IT stack: Google Workspace, an MDM platform, an identity provider, SSO/SAML, and SaaS lifecycle tooling - Direct experience contributing to a SOC2 audit cycle: owning evidence, managing a control area, or running the program - Track record negotiating SaaS contracts and rationalizing vendor spend - Comfort managing a mixed Mac/Windows environment - Bias toward automation: you see a manual provisioning request and think about how to eliminate the category, not just fulfill the ticket - Regular, practical use of AI tools as part of daily IT work; we use Claude, Harvey, and others internally and expect this role to push that frontier - Ability to operate without a team, manage a high-volume request queue, and still make time for the structural work Tech stack: Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft 365, Claude, GitHub, Vanta, 1Password, HubSpot, Highspot, Sybill, Granola, Harvey AI, Ramp, Navan, Vercel, Notion, Omni, BigQuery, Lattice, Adobe, and more BONUS POINTS - Experience at a high-growth startup running IT - Experience running security (pattern-matching instincts for risk, even without owning strategy) - Experience working in a regulated business/industry WHAT WE BRING - Backing, traction & brand: - We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best venture and strategic investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Ardent Venture Partners, Pattern, Clearway, EDFR, Intersect, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures. - Additionally, we have raised a $500mm debt facility from Nuveen, allowing us to co-invest and deploy our own capital in suppo…