Senior Director, Acquisitions and Development

Role description

Role Overview

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. The role leads a team of acquisition, development, energy, and due diligence professionals and partners closely with Site Selection, Energy & Power, Finance, Legal, Tax, Government Affairs, Engineering, and Construction to turn capacity demand into secured, buildable land.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include owning the Americas acquisition and development pipeline, setting strategy and quarterly targets for owned-site and land bank capacity, leading land acquisition, developing through construction-ready, running the Due Diligence function, building the operating system, driving governance and controls, building and developing the team, owning external relationships, and surfacing risk early.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires a candidate who can think in megawatts, not acres, and judge every site through power availability, interconnection risk, and time to energize. The ideal candidate should be able to move easily between strategy and hands-on deal and project execution, like building the systems, playbooks, and teams that make a function scale, own outcomes, and hold clear boundaries with partner teams, and thrive in a high-growth, high-accountability environment.

Requirements

• 15+ years in data center, hyperscale, utility-scale energy or heavy industrial real estate acquisition and development
• 7+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Track record taking large-scale (100 MW+) sites from acquisition through entitlement, utility interconnect, and construction-ready delivery across multiple US markets
• Deep knowledge of powered land acquisition, transmission, and substation siting, interconnection queues, zoning, entitlement, and environmental processes
• Experience structuring and closing land purchase agreements, ground leases, and option agreements in complex, multi-party transactions
• Strong financial and program discipline: development budgets, cash flow forecasting, schedule management, and capital approval processes
• Proven ability to build operating cadences, RACIs, and reporting that hold up in a matrixed, fast-moving environment
• Clear, concise executive communicator who can turn technical, financial, and regulatory detail into decisions

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings 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