What You’ll Do:
The Legal and Government Affairs team at CoreWeave 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.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Director, Government Affairs, Federal , to serve as CoreWeave’s relationship leader with Congress, the Administration, and key federal agencies. Based in Washington, D.C., and reporting to the VP, Government Affairs, you will shape and advance CoreWeave’s agenda on AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity, driving headlines and outcomes. You will lead CoreWeave's federal engagement, building a prioritized relationship architecture across key committees, agencies, and the Administration and converting those relationships into concrete outcomes on legislation, rulemakings, procurement, and compliance. The role also serves as a key partner to CoreWeave Federal, the company's growing public sector business, supporting direct agency engagement, procurement strategy, and appropriations opportunities.
In this role, you will:
- Lead a disciplined engagement cadence with priority committees and agencies and drive follow-ups to completion.
- Advance positions on responsible AI, privacy alignment, cloud security, procurement pathways, and critical infrastructure.
- Build CoreWeave's profile with priority federal policymakers as a credible, expert voice on AI infrastructure, national competitiveness, and responsible energy development.
- Translate federal policy developments, including executive actions, budget decisions, AI rulemakings, and procurement rules, into timely and actionable intelligence for product, sales, and business teams.
- Support political planning and events in partnership with Legal and compliance partners.
Who You Are:
- 15+ years of experience in federal government affairs, public policy, or administration within technology, infrastructure, or related sectors.
- Demonstrated track record advancing legislative and regulatory priorities, including drafting testimony, comment letters, and legislative language.
- Established relationships with key Congressional committees, federal agencies, and Administration stakeholders.
- Experience driving outcomes across legislation, rulemaking, procurement, and compliance processes.
- Proven ability to translate federal policy developments (e.g., executive actions, budget decisions, AI regulations) into actionable business strategies.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent policy workstreams with measurable results and consistent execution.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or J.D. strongly preferred.
Preferred:
- Experience with federal procurement processes and appropriations cycles.
- Experience shaping technology policy narratives in national media environments.
What We Offer
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- 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
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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:
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.
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