Senior Director, Acquisitions and Development

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 .

About the Team

Reporting to the VP, Strategic Programs & Global Expansion, the Senior Director, Acquisitions and Development owns CoreWeave's owned-site data center pipeline in the Americas, from land sourcing and acquisition through entitlement, utility interconnect and delivery of construction-ready sites to the Construction team. You will lead a team of acquisition, development, energy and due diligence professionals and partner closely with Site Selection, Energy & Power, Finance, Legal, Tax, Government Affairs, Engineering and Construction to turn capacity demand into secured, buildable land.

CoreWeave is scaling self-developed capacity alongside its leased footprint, with ambitious self-build and land bank growth targets for 2027 and beyond. This role is the single accountable owner for that path. You will set the acquisition and development strategy, build the operating rhythm that moves sites from thesis to close to shovel-ready, and stand up the systems that give leadership real-time visibility into cash flow, budget, schedule and risk across every active project.

Scope runs from acquisition through pre-vertical construction. The role delivers entitled, powered, slab-ready sites to Construction and ends there; vertical construction, MEP build-out and commissioning sit with the Construction organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Americas acquisition and development pipeline. Set strategy and quarterly targets for owned-site and land bank capacity, and deliver against committed MW, schedule and budget.
• Lead land acquisition. Direct sourcing, evaluation and execution of powered land and campus sites across purchase, ground lease and option structures, and approve deals before they go to investment committee.
• Lead development through construction-ready. Own entitlement, zoning, permitting, environmental and utility interconnect (power, water, fiber), plus pre-construction and civil milestones, and hand off shovel-ready sites to Construction against agreed gates.
• Run the Due Diligence function. Lead site, technical and commercial diligence for both land and lease paths, with consistent standards, SLAs and decision-ready reports for every opportunity.
• Build the operating system. Implement and maintain a project management tool with live cash flow, budget and schedule, a current RACI with Construction, Site Selection and Energy, and a weekly pipeline and program status cadence for executive le

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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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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.