Crux careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Crux has raised $77 million in equity across four rounds. A $4.6 million seed led by Lowercarbon Capital with New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, Three Cairns Group and QED's Bolt program, plus individual investors including KKR co-founder Henry Kravis and Gallatin Point's Lee Sachs, funded the April 2023 launch; a $4.25 million seed extension led by Ardent in June 2023 brought in strategic investors Ørsted, LS Power, Hartree Partners, Canapi and Commonweal Ventures. An $18.2 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz closed on January 30, 2024, and a16z general partner David Haber joined the board. The $50 million Series B announced April 16, 2025 was led by Lowercarbon Capital, with a16z, Ardent, CIV, New System Ventures and Three Cairns returning and Giant Ventures, Acrew Capital, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and OMERS Ventures joining; the valuation was not disclosed. Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables and Intersect Power are also strategic investors. In May 2026 Crux and Nuveen announced a $500 million debt facility that lets Crux co-invest its own capital in projects. Kate Karas, the first general counsel at Chime, joined the board in November 2025.

Crux is a capital platform for clean energy and manufacturing projects in the United States. It started in April 2023 as a marketplace for the transferable tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act, then added a debt capital marketplace in March 2025 and tax equity and preferred equity investing later that year, alongside advisory services and a market intelligence practice that publishes semi-annual reports on the sector. Its subsidiary Crux Capital Securities is a FINRA member and SEC-registered broker-dealer that works only with institutional counterparties.

The site counts 185+ transactions executed across the capital stack, an $85 billion transaction dataset, a $6 billion-plus proprietary pipeline in tax equity and preferred equity, and deal closes that run 30%+ faster through its data room. Customers are developers, sponsors, manufacturers, tax credit buyers, lenders and the tax advisors and law firms around them; over 40 law firms co-develop standardized documents and AI tools with the company, and transaction volume on the platform went from $8.5 billion in the first half of 2024 to more than $20 billion in the first half of 2025, with the fastest deal closing in 17 days.

Alfred Johnson, CEO and co-founder. Deputy Chief of Staff at the US Treasury from 2021 to 2022, responsible for digital assets, cybersecurity and the operations of the 80,000-person department. Before that he co-founded and ran Mobilize, the volunteer and events platform acquired by EveryAction in 2020, was Head of Sales and People at Clara Lending, a Vice President in BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory group, and served at the Treasury from 2009 to 2012 on financial crisis response and as a Special Assistant in the White House Chief of Staff's office. B.A. and MBA from Stanford, where he played defensive end on the varsity football team; he hosts the Critical Capital podcast.

Allen Kramer, COO and co-founder. Co-founder and President of Mobilize from 2017 to 2021, where sales, product and engineering reported to him; the platform reached 3.6 million people and 3,000 organizations and was acquired by EveryAction in 2020. Earlier an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco and part of the innovation team at Assured Labor in Mexico City; he angel-invests and has advised Imperfect Foods and Beam Impact. B.A. in Economics from Brown University.

Crux entered a market at its inception. Transferable tax credits did not exist before the Inflation Reduction Act, and Alfred Johnson described the founding moment plainly: "The summer of 2022, Allen Kramer and I became obsessed with the frustrating inadequacy of clean energy capital markets." Three years later the company sits in the middle of a market it helped shape: its own mid-year 2026 report puts tax credit transfers at $21 billion in the first half of the year, with a record $14.9 billion in the second quarter, and Crux data is what Utility Dive, Latitude Media and Heatmap quote when they cover the sector.

Pay is printed on every posting, and postings state the company is "profitable and growing exponentially" and has closed over 130 transactions in the last two years, so the roles are funded by revenue rather than runway. In July 2026 Newsweek named Crux one of America's Greatest Startup Workplaces, at a headcount the company put at 115.

The company runs on AI in practice rather than as a slogan. Postings describe the operations team building automation with HubSpot, Claude Code and n8n, the first AI Product Engineer hire is tasked with rebuilding diligence from first principles, and Johnson has said the key to scaling clean energy investment "lies in leveraging AI to embed human expertise and market intelligence directly into software tools that ensure accuracy, flag risks, and expedite deal closures."

Five written values appear on the careers page and in every posting: care for each other, build and improve rapidly, focus unremittingly on customers, demonstrate ownership, and convene a team that reflects the breadth of experiences in the country. The company defines the second one as "We move quickly. To do that, we focus, consistently ask ourselves if we are prioritizing the right things, and execute them as best as possible," and the fourth as "We are all owners of Crux. This is our team, our company, our product and we show that to each other." The stated growth model is direct: "We grow quickly by giving extremely talented people a lot of responsibility."

The team mixes finance and technology on purpose. Postings describe it as experts in energy, tax, finance, government and technology, and the leadership hires announced in September 2026 came from Apollo, M&T Bank, ExxonMobil, Mizuho and CIBC, reporting to a chief capital officer who spent 23 years at RBC. Johnson's own view of leadership, from a 2023 interview, is that great leaders are "bold, decisive, empathetic, and consistent," that "People are everything," and that a leader's inconsistency "absolutely creates insecure organizations". Every posting ends with an equal opportunity statement and an invitation to say how you would contribute.

Crux hires through an Ashby job board with 16 open roles in September 2026, most of them commercial: tax credit markets, tax investor coverage, investments, industry coverage and partnerships, plus operations roles, an executive assistant and the company's first AI Product Engineer. A standing "Build Your Role" posting takes applications from people who do not see a fit and asks them to define the role themselves. Experience bars are explicit: 4+ years of full-stack work for the engineer, 5 to 10 years for the revenue strategy lead, 6+ for business operations and 14+ years in tax, accounting, legal practice or tax-advantaged investing for managing directors.

Commercial roles expect around 25% travel to conferences, partner briefings and closings. The AI Product Engineer posting lists what they hope to see: hackathons and side projects, agents that actually work, a prior startup or "rocket ship", and someone who "can quickly find the 80/20 solution and move on". Several postings add that Crux is "very open on compensation for the right candidate".