Senior Director, Acquisitions and Development (Data Center Development)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States. The role owns the data center acquisition and development pipeline across the Americas and requires eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled information.

Base salary: $210,000–$281,000 per year, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits subject to eligibility.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, technology, tools, and teams for AI labs, startups, and enterprises.

What you will do

• Own the Americas owned-site and land-bank pipeline, setting strategy and quarterly targets for capacity, schedule, and budget.
• Lead sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, and execution of powered land and campus transactions, including purchases, ground leases, and options.
• Drive sites through entitlement, zoning, permitting, environmental review, utility interconnection, and civil milestones until they are construction-ready.
• Lead site, technical, commercial, and development due diligence and deliver decision-ready reports.
• Build project controls with live cash flow, budgets, schedules, RACI ownership, reporting cadence, governance, and SOX-aligned capital documentation.
• Build and lead the acquisition, development, energy, and due diligence organization while managing brokers, landowners, utilities, municipalities, consultants, and development partners.

Requirements

• 15+ years in data center, hyperscale, utility-scale energy, or heavy industrial real estate acquisition and development, including 7+ years leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Track record taking 100 MW+ sites from acquisition through entitlement, utility interconnection, and construction-ready delivery across multiple U.S. 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, multiparty transactions.
• Strong discipline in development budgets, cash-flow forecasting, schedule management, and capital approval processes.
• Ability to build operating cadences, RACIs, and reporting in a matrixed, fast-moving environment.
• Clear, concise executive communication skills, including translating technical, financial, and regulatory detail into decisions.
• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Engineering, Business, Urban Planning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. person, eligible without required export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience running an owned-site program at a hyperscaler, colocation developer, or utility-scale energy developer.
• Knowledge of AI-ready facility requirements, including high-density power, liquid cooling, and floor loads.
• Broker, utility, and municipal networks in Texas, the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, or Pacific Northwest.
• Experience with Salesforce, Smartsheet, Procore, or similar pipeline and project-control tools.
• Experience with SOX controls over capital commitments.

Culture & Benefits

• High-growth, high-accountability environment focused on curiosity, ownership, employee empowerment, collaboration, and best-in-class client experiences.
• Full-time U.S. employee benefits include fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, FSA, HSA, and 401(k) with employer match.
• Additional benefits include tuition reimbursement, ESPP participation, mental wellness support, family-forming support, paid parental leave, childcare support, and flexible PTO.
• Office and data center locations provide catered lunch; the work environment is casual and focused on innovative disruption.