Senior Director - EMEA Solutions Engineering

Role description

Role Overview

The Senior Director of Product & Engineering, EMEA reports to the VP and Managing Director of EMEA, with a matrix reporting line to the Global VP of Field Engineering and SVP of Product. As the senior field technology leader for the region, you will lead all EMEA field technical functions, with direct management accountability for account-aligned technical teams and matrix leadership of specialist teams.

What You Will Do

Set and execute the EMEA Field Product & Engineering strategy, operating model, and priorities in partnership with the VP and Managing Director of EMEA, Global VP of Field Engineering and SVP of Product. Act as the senior field technology voice for EMEA, shaping go-to-market priorities, customer engagement models, technical positioning, and regional investment decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be responsible for ensuring the product strategy of CoreWeave is assimilated across field teams in EMEA and - working with field enablement - ensuring that all teams maintain a high level of product competency.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in technical design, implementation, consulting, pre-sales, solutions architecture, or another customer-facing technical discipline within cloud infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, enterprise software, or adjacent markets.
• 10+ years of technical leadership experience, including 7+ years leading managers, senior individual contributors, or multi-country Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or comparable customer-facing technical organizations.
• A record of leading distributed technical organizations through rapid growth, transformation, changing market conditions, and complex organizational dependencies.
• Strong technical credibility in cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture, with depth across several of the following domains: accelerated compute, Kubernetes, networking, storage, security, observability, data platforms, or AI/ML workload architecture.
• Demonstrated success guiding complex enterprise customers from strategy and solution design through validation, production deployment, operationalization, measurable adoption, and expansion.
• Experience advising C-suite and senior technical stakeholders and translating complex architecture into business value, investment choices, delivery risk, and operating decisions.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles and connecting technical strategy to qualified pipeline, technical wins, deal progression, customer adoption, and expansion.
• A record of hiring, developing, and retaining technical leaders, together with building measurable enablement, accreditation, or continuous-learning programs that close capability gaps.
• Experience operating a metrics-based field organization, including goals, forecasting, capacity and coverage planning, resource prioritization, business reviews, and performance inspection.
• Demonstrated ability to align Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Support, Operations, partners, specialist teams, and global leaders without relying solely on positional authority.
• Experience operating across EMEA markets, with the ability to travel regionally and internationally as required to support customers, teams, and company priorities.

Benefits

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement