Vice President, Data Center Operations – EMEA
CoreWeave is seeking a strategic Vice President of Data Center Operations for EMEA to lead the operational performance, expansion, and long-term strategy of our rapidly growing data center footprint across Europe. This executive will oversee day-to-day operations, organizational scalability, reliability engineering, vendor performance, site readiness, and workforce management across multiple countries. As a key regional leader, you will partner closely with Global Operations, Engineering, Capacity, Physical Security, Facilities, and Network teams to ensure our EMEA data centers operate with world-class safety, reliability, cost efficiency, and service excellence. You will build and lead high-performing teams, establish operational standards, and execute on our ambitious growth roadmap. This is a highly visible, high-impact leadership role shaping CoreWeave's global infrastructure strategy.
Key responsibilities include providing executive oversight of all operational activities across EMEA data centers, ensuring consistent performance, reliability, and adherence to global standards. You will build and scale regional operations organizations, including site leadership, technicians, facilities, and support functions. Establishing and maintaining KPIs for uptime, service levels, maintenance, incident response, safety, and compliance is essential. Additionally, you will develop and execute the multi-year strategy for EMEA operational expansion, including new site launches, staffing plans, and operational readiness. Partnering with Global Capacity Planning and Real Estate teams on site selection, commissioning, and handover to operations is also a critical aspect of the role.
The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of experience in data center operations, critical infrastructure, or large-scale technical operations, with at least 7 years in senior leadership roles. Proven success leading operations across multiple international sites or regions is required. Deep expertise in availability management, critical environment maintenance, incident management, and operational governance is essential. Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and lead leaders is crucial. Strong business acumen with experience owning budgets and driving cost efficiency is necessary. Experience scaling operations in high-growth or hyper-scale environments is preferred. Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at the executive level are important. The ability to travel across EMEA as needed is also required.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including family-level medical insurance, family-level dental insurance, generous pension contribution, life assurance at 4x salary, critical illness cover, employee assistance programme, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovative disruption. Benefits may vary by location.
We work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: Be Curious at Your Core, Act Like an Owner, Empower Employees, Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences, and Achieve More Together. We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!