Manager, Technical Recruiting

What Youll Do:

The Talent Acquisition team at CoreWeave is responsible for building the technical organizations that power our AI cloudspanning Product Engineering Infrastructure AI Infra IaaS Common Services Fleet and more. We run a pod-based model where recruiters sourcers and coordinators are tightly aligned to engineering leaders to deliver high-bar technical talent at scale.

The Manager Technical Recruiting is a strategic hands-on leader responsible for scaling CoreWeaves engineering organization. They will lead multiple engineering recruiting pods or a large complex pod partnering directly with senior technology leaders and TA leadership to design and execute hiring strategies across multiple functions and levels. This role is ideal for a seasoned technical recruiting leader who thrives in high-growth environments leads with both data and heart and knows how to build teams and processes that deliver outstanding results.

About the Role:

As a Manager Technical Recruiting you will build and lead a high-performing team of technical recruiters that supports key engineering organizations at CoreWeave (for example: Product Engineering Infrastructure Engineering AI Infra IaaS or Common Services). You will own full-funnel recruiting performance for your pod(s)from intake to offerwhile also personally leading senior or hard-to-fill searches as needed.

In this role you will:

• Own and evolve engineering hiring strategies for your pod(s) across multiple teams and levels aligning plans to headcount forecasts product roadmaps and org design in partnership with Engineering Product and People leadership.
• Lead coach and develop a team of technical recruiters (and where applicable sourcers and coordinators) creating a collaborative metrics-driven culture centered on excellence learning and high accountability.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior engineering leaders: calibrate roles and levels using CoreWeaves job architecture and leveling framework prioritize requisitions and drive data-informed hiring decisions and tradeoffs.
• Own end-to-end recruiting performance for your pod(s): pipeline health time-to-fill and time-to-hire pass-through rates quality of hire signals offer acceptance rates candidate experience and diversity outcomes.
• Personally lead full-cycle recruiting for senior and niche technical roles (e.g. Staff engineers EMs Directors) including market mapping sourcing assessment design and closing strategies.
• Champion a world-class candidate experienceensuring clear communication timely feedback and thoughtful closingfrom first touch through offer acceptance and handoff to onboarding.
• Leverage data and analytics (from Greenhouse Lattice-aligned levels and internal TA dashboards) to improve pipeline conversion recruiter capacity planning time-to-fill sourcing channel performance and quality of hire.
• Partner with TA Operations Total Rewards and People to structure competitive and equitable offers using the TA Offer Tool and corporate bands for recruiting roles and escalating exceptions through the established approvals process where needed.
• Optimize tools workflows and interview frameworksensuring structured consistent and scalable processes for intake interview design debriefs decision-making and hiring manager enablement.
• Collaborate with TA People and DEI partners to build inclusive hiring processes and diverse talent pipelines across engineering including proactive mapping and outbound strategies for critical domains such as GPU/AI infra cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Communicate hiring trends pipeline health key metrics and strategy updates to senior stakeholders surfacing risks and tradeoffs early and proposing clear mitigation plans.
• Operate as a player-coach: model best-in-class recruiting behaviors in your own searches while building capability across your team in sourcing stakeholder management closing and use of data.

Who You Are:

• 7 years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a strong focus on technical / engineering roles in high-growth or complex technology environments (e.g. cloud infrastructure AI/ML distributed systems).
• 24 years of experience leading and developing recruiters and/or sourcers including performance management coaching and building a high-accountability high-support culture.
• Demonstrated success managing recruiting across multiple engineering teams or business units simultaneously with clear ownership of hiring targets pipeline health and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Deep understanding of technical recruiting fundamentals: outbound sourcing strategies technical assessment design pass-through rate management and offer / close tactics for highly competitive engineering talent markets.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence senior engineering leaders including pushing back thoughtfully advising on leveling and job architecture and aligning hiring decisions to business objectives and capacity constraints.
• Experience building and optimizing recruiting processes at scale ideally in a pod-based or embedded recruiting model aligned to engineering domains.
• Comfortable working with data and tooling: experienced using Greenhouse ATS/CRM data Lattice-aligned levels and TA dashboards to run your business tell a clear story with metrics and make continuous improvements.
• Expertise with modern recruiting and sourcing tools (e.g. LinkedIn Recruiter Gem or similar CRM Greenhouse ATS) and collaboration platforms used at CoreWeave (e.g. Slack Google Workspace Zoom Lattice).
• Strong negotiation and closing skills in competitive markets with a track record of securing senior technical talent against strong alternatives.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced ambiguous hyper-growth environmentbalancing strategic planning with hands-on execution and a strong bias for action.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a track record of building trust across Talent Acquisition People and senior business stakeholders.

Preferred:

• Experience leading recruiting teams focused on deeply technical domains such as infrastructure engineering GPU/AI infrastructure HPC security engineering or similar high-bar engineering organizations.
• Prior experience operating in a pod-based or embedded recruiting model aligned by product / engineering domain and/or supporting multiple global locations.
• Familiarity with job architecture leveling frameworks and promotion criteria and how these intersect with recruiting performance and compensation decisions in a scaling company.
• Experience designing and running interviewer training debrief best practices and structured interviewing programs for engineering leaders.
• Background in high-growth or hyperscaler-like environments where hiring velocity quality of hire diversity and operational rigor are all critical.

Wondering if youre a good fit

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 love coaching recruiters and seeing their skills confidence and impact grow over timeand youre energized by building a high-performing high-trust team.
• Youre curious about how engineering leaders think about roadmap org design and team health and you enjoy being their strategic thought partner on talent and hiring strategy.
• Youre an expert at turning ambiguous or shifting hiring goals into clear plans metrics and repeatable processes that scale across multiple pods or orgs.
• You care deeply about candidate experience and employer brand and youre excited to help shape the story of CoreWeaves engineering organization in the AI infrastructure space.

Why 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!

The base salary range for this role is $135000 to $198000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge skills experience and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining addition to base salary our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus equity awards and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range weve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications experience interview performance and location.

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs including:

• 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

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.

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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.