Regional Director - U.S. Midwest Data Center Operations

The posting, as CoreWeave wrote it

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About the Team

As the Regional Director for the U.S. Midwest, you will lead operations across multiple data center sites and set regional standards for performance, reliability, safety, and operational excellence. You will be on-site regularly to conduct audits, support emergency response, mentor local teams, and ensure consistent execution in the field.

You will guide site leadership, manage regional budgets and forecasts, and serve as the primary escalation point for critical incidents. You will also drive capacity planning and growth readiness, aligning MW, rack space, staffing, and workforce plans with customer demand, product roadmaps, and long-term infrastructure strategy.

You will partner with Product, Network Engineering, Security, Real Estate, Finance, Legal, HR, vendors, and service providers to support new deployments, manage risk, optimize costs, and keep regional priorities aligned. You will also represent the region in executive forums with clear updates on capacity, risk, performance, staffing, and operational health.

The ideal candidate will be based near a data center hub within the territory (Indiana, Ohio, or Illinois). Frequent travel across the territory, up to 40%, is required to support multi-site operations and incident management.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure data center uptime and SLA adherence across the region.
• Oversee incident response performance, escalation effectiveness, and post-incident corrective actions.
• Manage preventive and corrective maintenance execution.
• Ensure safety performance and compliance readiness.
• Drive capacity readiness across MW, rack space, and staffing.
• Manage regional budget performance, vendor performance, and cost optimization.
• Use KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, and operational data to track uptime, incident response, maintenance execution, safety performance, and regional readiness.
• Standardize SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs across sites, keeping documentation current, auditable, and consistently followed.
• Ensure operational data is accurate and complete across tooling and reporting systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in critical facility operations, including at least 5 years in a senior management or multi-site leadership role within data centers or a similar mission-critical environment.
• Experience scaling data center

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Account

• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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