Senior State Government Affairs Manager, Texas & Southeast

The posting, as CoreWeave wrote it

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com .

What You’ll Do

The CoreWeave Legal and Government Affairs (LGA) team is highly collaborative and partners closely with teams across the company to navigate complex policy, regulatory, and business environments while enabling innovation and growth. The team is pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and deeply engaged in strategic decision-making, with a strong emphasis on building trusted relationships across the organization.

As Senior State Government Affairs Manager, you will lead state government affairs across assigned states and influence legislative outcomes impacting CoreWeave’s ability to grow and operate. You will build trusted relationships with state executives, policymakers, and staff. If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems, and are eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of State Government Affairs, the Senior Manager will help shape CoreWeave’s state government affairs strategy and advance policy initiatives that support the company’s expansion and growth.

You’ll work closely with governors’ offices, state legislators, economic development agencies, in-state consultants, trade associations, and advocacy groups to advance CoreWeave’s objectives at the state level. This role combines deep policy analysis, relationship building, and strategic execution, with a focus on expanding CoreWeave’s data center footprint growth and supporting economic development through AI innovation.

You’ll represent CoreWeave before state lawmakers and other key stakeholders, execute on our government affairs priorities, and help shape the policy environment in markets where we operate and seek to grow. This role is ideal for a proactive, commercially minded professional who thrives in building coalitions, identifying opportunities, and translating policy analysis into business outcomes.

In this role you will

• Own and lead CoreWeave’s legislative and political engagement for your assigned states in the Southeast region.
• Develop and execute state-specific engagement plans that identify key stakeholders, anticipate emerging issues, establish engagement milestones, and recommend practical courses of action and escalation paths.
• Monitor, analyze, and interpret state legislative and regulatory developments relevant to data centers, AI infrastructure, energy policy, and economic development across the region.
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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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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com .

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.