Senior Director EMEA South
Job Summary
The Southern Europe Sales organization is responsible for establishing CoreWeave as the preferred AI cloud platform for enterprises AI labs digital-native companies and emerging AI builders across France Italy Iberia and the wider Mediterranean region. The team creates new markets develops strategic customer relationships and helps customers use CoreWeaves infrastructure and software platform to build deploy and scale the next generation of AI.
About the role: The Senior Director of Sales Southern Europe reports to the VP and Managing Director of EMEA. As the senior sales leader for the region you will own CoreWeaves commercial strategy and execution across all customer segments with responsibility for both new-logo acquisition and the growth of existing customers. You will inherit an established customer base and a team spanning Account Executives Account Managers and Account Solutions Architects while carrying a significant mandate to design and build the broader regional coverage model. This is a hands-on first-on-the-ground leadership role for someone who can build the business recruit and develop exceptional talent and support market growth in coordination with EMEA leadership and personally lead the regions most strategic customer opportunities.
- Own the Southern Europe business including regional strategy revenue performance consumption growth pipeline creation customer acquisition retention and expansion.
- Develop and execute a multi-year market-capture plan across France Italy Iberia and the wider Mediterranean region aligned to CoreWeaves EMEA and global priorities.
- Design the regional segmentation territory account and coverage model across Enterprise AI Labs Digital Natives and Startup customers.
- Build and scale the regional sales organization recruiting developing and retaining high-performing leaders and individual contributors as the business grows.
- Lead coach and develop Account Executives and Account Managers establishing clear expectations strong inspection disciplines and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with Account Solutions Architects to connect customer business objectives with CoreWeaves infrastructure platform and developer capabilities.
- Personally develop relationships with senior executives founders technical leaders and strategic stakeholders across the region.
- Lead from the front on the regions most strategic opportunities remaining actively involved from initial engagement through solution development commercial negotiation and closure with final contracting execution by EMEA/HQ.
- Own the acquisition of new strategic customers while developing account strategies that increase adoption consumption retention and long-term customer value across the existing customer base.
- Build a high-quality appropriately covered pipeline and establish a consistent operating cadence for opportunity inspection account planning forecasting risk management and corrective action.
- Deliver accurate and transparent forecasts with clear visibility into customer demand consumption commercial risk capacity requirements and execution dependencies.
- Develop and close subject to HQ review and execution complex high-value multi-year commercial agreements including strategic capacity commitments and enterprise-wide platform relationships.
- Drive adoption of CoreWeaves broader platform and software capabilities ensuring customers see CoreWeave as a strategic technology partner rather than solely an infrastructure provider.
- Partner across Field Engineering Marketing Customer Success Capacity Product Finance Legal Revenue Operations and executive leadership to deliver coordinated customer outcomes.
- Support CoreWeaves partner venture capital startup ecosystem sovereign AI and government-relations strategies across the region.
- Represent regional customer requirements and market dynamics within CoreWeave ensuring that global product capacity investment and go-to-market decisions reflect the opportunities and needs of Southern Europe.
- Establish CoreWeaves reputation in the region through active participation in the AI technology business research and investment communities.
- Build a regional culture that reflects CoreWeaves values rewards ownership develops talent encourages collaboration and delivers best-in-class customer experiences.
- 15 years of experience in enterprise technology sales including significant experience selling cloud infrastructure AI platforms data platforms enterprise software or similarly complex technology solutions.
- 8 years of sales leadership experience including responsibility for senior sellers managers or multi-country commercial teams.
- Demonstrated success building or materially scaling a country regional or multi-market sales organization.
- A consistent record of meeting or exceeding significant revenue bookings consumption pipeline and customer-growth objectives.
- Experience leading both new-logo acquisition and the expansion of complex strategic customer relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and close high-value multi-year agreements involving senior executives technical stakeholders procurement teams legal teams and other complex buying groups.
- Experience selling into multiple customer segments ideally including large enterprises high-growth technology companies AI-native businesses research organizations and startups.
- Experience designing segmentation account allocation territory coverage hiring and resource-investment models.
- Strong command of enterprise sales methodologies account planning opportunity management pipeline inspection forecasting and performance management.
- Proven ability to recruit coach and develop high-performing sales talent including leaders and senior individual contributors.
- The ability to engage credibly with both commercial and deeply technical audiences translating customer objectives into infrastructure and platform strategies.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience structuring complex agreements and balancing customer requirements with capacity risk margin and long-term strategic value.
- A hands-on leadership style and willingness to remain personally involved in strategic selling executive engagement and critical negotiations.
- Proven ability to operate effectively within a fast-growing globally matrixed organization and align regional execution with global priorities.
- Fluent English and French language skills.
- The ability to travel frequently across the region and internationally as required.
- Leadership experience within an AI cloud hyperscale cloud infrastructure enterprise platform or consumption-based technology company.
- Experience building a new region or significantly expanding an early-stage market presence.
- Experience selling GPU infrastructure accelerated computing machine learning platforms developer tools or large-scale data and AI solutions.
- Experience managing commercial opportunities where customer commitments depend on capacity availability infrastructure deployment supply or service readiness.
- Experience engaging with founders research organizations venture capital firms sovereign entities or national AI initiatives.
- Spanish or Italian language skills.
- An established executive and technology network across Southern Europe.
- A bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams even if you arent a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities weve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you wed love to talk.
- You are a builder who is energized by the opportunity to create a market design an organization and turn an ambitious regional strategy into a scaled business.
- You lead from the front combining executive presence and strategic thinking with a willingness to engage deeply in customers opportunities and execution.
- You create clarity and accountability while giving talented people the trust coaching and support required to perform at their best.
- You are comfortable making decisions in an environment where demand customer requirements capacity and priorities are evolving rapidly.
- You build durable customer relationships by combining commercial ambition with technical curiosity transparency and consistent follow-through.
- You think beyond an individual transaction and seek to establish CoreWeave as a long-term strategic partner to the customers and markets you CoreWeave
At CoreWeave we work hard have fun and move fast! Were in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. Were not afraid of a little chaos and were 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
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff the organizations growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry who will want to learn from you too. Come join us!
To fulfill 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:
- 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
Benefits may vary by location.
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