Global People Operations Director, CoreWeave
$182-242k
+ Equity + Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
3+ days a week in office
The essential cloud for AI
Be an early applicant
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$182-242k
+ Equity + Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To manage the complexities of AI growth to make supercomputing accessible and push the limits of what's possible.
Role
Who you are
- You are energized by building and improving operating systems at scale in a fast-moving, global environment
- You are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information and moving quickly
- You have built and scaled People Operations capabilities before and you know what breaks at scale
- You care about employee and manager experience, but you anchor it in operational rigor and clear accountability
- You are digitally native and modern in how you think about systems, automation, and the future of work
- You are excited to build and lead a team while staying personally close to the work
- Proven experience building and scaling global People Operations in a high-growth or rapidly evolving company
- Demonstrated ownership of HRIS strategy and operations, including Workday governance, process design, and data integrity
- Strong operating judgment across compliance, controls, and scalable workflow design, including SOX-relevant environments or similar control maturity
- A track record of driving automation and process improvements that reduced manual work and improved speed and quality
- Experience designing service delivery models, intake processes, and operating cadences that scale
- Comfort partnering with People Business Partners, Talent, and future Total Rewards while maintaining clear ownership boundaries
- Curiosity and fluency with modern approaches, including thoughtful use of AI to improve employee experience and operational throughput
- Experience typically built over multiple stages of growth
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Director, Global People Operations, to own and scale the global operating backbone for the employee lifecycle
- This role reports directly to the VP, People, and is a key member of the People and Culture leadership team
- This is a builder and operator role for someone who can bring clarity, pace, and rigor in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve, and decisions get made with imperfect information
- This is not a caretaker role
- This leader will strengthen foundations, modernize how work gets done, and build a team and operating model that scales
- They will combine operational excellence with a strong point of view on systems, automation, data integrity, and employee experience
- They will also lean into modern technology, including AI, to improve speed to resolution and reduce manual work across the employee lifecycle
- Own the global People Operations strategy and execution, translating hypergrowth business needs into centralized, compliant, automated workflows that scale
- Build and lead the Global People Operations function, including defining the team structure, setting clear ownership and interfaces, and hiring and developing talent
- Own Workday end-to-end, including data integrity, process design, governance, roadmap, and adoption, with a focus on manager and employee experience
- Run the global employee lifecycle operating engine, including core transactions, case management, and service delivery that is fast, accurate, and consistent
- Own and evolve and automate scalable onboarding operations that drive speed to productivity and a great day one to day ninety experience
- Build durable compliance foundations, including SOX-related People processes and controls that are reliable, auditable, and operationally practical
- Drive workflow automation and process improvements to reduce manual work, increase speed, and improve quality and consistency
- Own global policy and process design in partnership with key stakeholders, ensuring clarity, repeatability, and sensible decision rights
- Own contingent workforce management operations and associated workflows, controls, and reporting
- Leverage modern tools, including AI, to improve employee experiences, speed to resolution, and knowledge capture, without compromising privacy and compliance
- Operate with a clear monthly cadence for portfolio review, prioritization, capacity planning, and dynamic reprioritization aligned to the People operating model
- First 90 days
- Align with the VP, People, on priorities, operating principles, success criteria, and non-negotiables for Global People Operations
- Assess the current state of global People Operations, including onboarding, Workday, data integrity, SOX controls, and workflow automation
- Define a focused 6–12 month roadmap that balances foundational fixes, automation wins, and scale readiness
- Establish a clear operating cadence for intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and monthly portfolio review
- Deliver at least one visible, high-impact improvement that reduces friction and increases speed for employees and managers
- Define the target team structure and begin hiring for critical roles to support near-term delivery, including the onboarding team’s scaling needs
- Stabilize and clarify ownership boundaries across People Business Partners, People Operations, Talent, and Total Rewards
- Establish an initial AI-forward approach, including one or two practical pilots that improve speed to resolution or self-service while protecting compliance
- What success looks like in 12 months
- People Operations is recognized as a high-performing global engine that enables speed and scale across CoreWeave
- Onboarding is a measurable differentiator that improves speed to productivity and employee confidence early in tenure
- SOX-related People processes and controls are reliable, auditable, and operationally practical
- Workday is optimized, trusted, and easier for managers and employees to use, with improved data integrity and adoption
- Core employee lifecycle workflows are centralized, clear, and automated where it matters, reducing manual work and cycle times
- Service delivery is faster, more consistent, and more transparent, with improved speed to resolution and fewer escalations
- AI-enabled support and automation improves employee experience and operational throughput in targeted, high-value areas
- The team operates with clear ownership, strong delivery, and the ability to reprioritize as business needs shift
- The transition of leaves of absence and benefits administration to Total Rewards is completed cleanly with stable operations and clear handoffs
Our take
As AI continues to dominate the tech landscape, the demand for faster, more efficient cloud infrastructure is only intensifying. Traditional cloud providers often struggle with the sheer speed and scale required to power advanced AI models, leaving a gap for more specialized players. And that's where CoreWeave comes in, a company purpose-built to handle the heavy computational lift that the AI era demands.
CoreWeave's story is an interesting one too. What began in 2017 as a small crypto mining venture has evolved into one of the leading AI-focused cloud providers in the world. Its data centers are packed with high-end GPUs optimized for machine learning and generative AI, serving major clients like Microsoft and OpenAI. By designing its infrastructure around the needs of modern AI workloads rather than retrofitting older systems, CoreWeave has carved out a distinct and highly valuable niche in the market.
That focus in paying off in a big way too. Analyst project CoreWeave's revenue to soar from $5.3B in 2025 to the mid-$20Bs by 2028, up from just $16M in 2022. While there is competition from tech giants like Amazon and Google, CoreWeave's speed, specialization, and bold investment strategy put in in a very powerful position to keep riding (and helping shape) the AI boom.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
194% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
May 2023
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Intrator
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Michael was a Principal Portfolio Manager at Natsource Asset Management for over 15 years. He also served as the CEO of Hudson Ridge Asset Management before co-founding CoreWeave in 2018.
Brian Venturo
(Co-Founder & CSO)Brian spent nearly 6 years at Natsource Asset Management as a Portfolio Manager before becoming a Partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management. After co-founding CoreWeave he served as the CTO until 2024 when he moved into his current role of Chief Strategy Officer.
Brannin McBee
(Co-Founder & CDO)Brannin has a history in Proprietary Trading, having previously worked at Windy Bay Power and Active Power Investments. He also served as a VP at Fourth Floor Coastal and as an Associate at Elustria Capital PArtners.
Peter Salanki
(Co-Founder & CTO)Peter Previously served as a Director of Americas at Sandvine. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Procera Networks as a Solutions Architect, Lead Architect, and Principal Solutions Architect.
Nitin Agrawal
(CFO)Nitin joined CoreWeave in 2024 as CFO. Prior to this, he was the VP of Finance at Google Cloud and CFO at Mapbox. He also spent nearly 5 years at AWS as CFO of Compute Services and 7 years at Microsoft as Group Manager of Finance.
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