IT Lead

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.

This person will own employee Single Sign-On (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, and negotiate SaaS contracts and rationalize vendor spend.

Responsibilities

• 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

Values

• 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.
• Have been profitable and are growing exponentially: We have closed over 120+ transactions in just the last 2 years, facilitating billions of dollars of capital flowing into renewables projects.
• Culture & working dynamic: Remote-first operating model: Work from anywhere in the US and Canada, or work out of our optional offices in DC (open), NYC (opening Q1’26). Optional co-working opportunities with co-workers in Bay Area, Seattle, Denver, Boston, LA, and beyond. High growth & high ownership culture: We grow quickly by giving extremely talented people a lot of responsibility.
• Best of financial services & technology: We have brought together a team that are experts in clean energy finance, and the best technologies. Use your expertise while getting to be on the cutting edge of applying AI to your day and your clients’ experience.
• Regular team offsites: We sustain culture by bringing the entire company together 3 times a year. Individual teams may also meet up more frequently.

Benefits

• Healthcare: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.
• Dental & vision: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.
• Holidays: 10 company holidays per year.
• Paid time off: 20 days per year.
• 401k: We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup).
• Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Compensation

Base Compensation: $150,000 - $250,000 depending on leveling/years of experience, not reflecting value of equity. Company wide bonus tied to revenue goals. Stock options in a rapidly growing company.