Vice President, Data Center Operations – EMEA
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Description
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.
We're proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer.
About The Role
CoreWeave is seeking an accomplished and 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.
What You’ll Do
Regional Operational Leadership
We're proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer.
About The Role
CoreWeave is seeking an accomplished and 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.
What You’ll Do
Regional Operational Leadership
- Provide executive oversight of all operational activities across EMEA data centers, ensuring consistent performance, reliability, and adherence to global standards.
- Build and scale regional operations organizations, including site leadership, technicians, facilities, and support functions.
- Establish and maintain KPIs for uptime, service levels, maintenance, incident response, safety, and compliance.
Strategic & Organizational Growth
- Develop and execute the multi-year strategy for EMEA operational expansion, including new site launches, staffing plans, and operational readiness.
- Partner with Global Capacity Planning and Real Estate teams on site selection, commissioning, and handover to operations.
- Create scalable processes, playbooks, and governance frameworks for all EMEA sites.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, implementing global best practices, automation initiatives, and efficiency programs.
- Oversee major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective action programs.
- Ensure rigorous adherence to safety, security, environmental, and regulatory requirements across all sites.
- Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing, multi-country leadership bench.
- Cultivate a culture centered on accountability, ownership, communication, and operational rigor.
- Oversee workforce planning, talent development, and succession planning for the region.
- Manage relationships with colocation providers, facility operators, contractors, and external vendors to ensure SLA compliance and predictable performance.
- Drive cost optimization across maintenance, utilities, vendor contracts, and workforce structure.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Network, Physical Security, HR, Talent Acquisition, and Program Management to align on growth, staffing, and operational needs.
- Serve as the EMEA Operations executive voice in global forums, planning cycles, and strategic reviews.
- 12+ years of experience in data center operations, critical infrastructure, or large-scale technical operations, with at least 7 years in senior leadership roles.
- Experience operating in colocation, hyperscale, cloud, or enterprise data center environments.
- Background in engineering, facilities management, electrical/mechanical systems, or reliability programs.
- Track record launching new sites or scaling new regions.
- Experience with safety and regulatory frameworks across multiple European countries.
- Prior experience supporting mission-critical 24x7 operations.
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
About
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
- Achieve More Together
To fulfil our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results
What We Offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration
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.
CoreWeave does not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of CoreWeave and your Terms & Conditions associated with the use of CVs will be considered null and void.
Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy – will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.
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
- Work culture focused on innovative disruption
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration
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.
CoreWeave does not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of CoreWeave and your Terms & Conditions associated with the use of CVs will be considered null and void.
Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy – will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.
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.
When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by CoreWeave UK Ltd. (“Controller”), which is located at
Phosphor (6th Floor), 133 Park Street, London, SE1 9EA
and can be contacted by emailing careers.eu@coreweave.com. Controller’s data protection officer can be contacted at privacy@coreweave.com. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of (i) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and (ii) the GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the UK (“UK GDPR”), as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. With respect to transfers originating from the UK or the European Economic Area ("EEA") to a country outside the UK or the EEA, we implement the appropriate transfer mechanism(s) and other appropriate solutions to address cross-border transfers as required by applicable law. You may request a copy of the suitable mechanisms we have in place by contacting us at
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.
When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by CoreWeave UK Ltd. (“Controller”), which is located at
Phosphor (6th Floor), 133 Park Street, London, SE1 9EA
and can be contacted by emailing careers.eu@coreweave.com. Controller’s data protection officer can be contacted at privacy@coreweave.com. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of (i) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and (ii) the GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the UK (“UK GDPR”), as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. With respect to transfers originating from the UK or the European Economic Area ("EEA") to a country outside the UK or the EEA, we implement the appropriate transfer mechanism(s) and other appropriate solutions to address cross-border transfers as required by applicable law. You may request a copy of the suitable mechanisms we have in place by contacting us at
privacy@coreweave.com
Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Where permitted by applicable law, we may also retain your personal data for a limited period after the recruitment process ends in order to consider you for future job opportunities, respond to legal claims, or comply with record-keeping obligations. Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority: (i) A list of Europe’s data protection authorities can be found here; and (ii) for the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office.
For additional information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Where permitted by applicable law, we may also retain your personal data for a limited period after the recruitment process ends in order to consider you for future job opportunities, respond to legal claims, or comply with record-keeping obligations. Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority: (i) A list of Europe’s data protection authorities can be found here; and (ii) for the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office.
For additional information, please see our Privacy Policy.