Senior Director EMEA Product & Engineering
Job Summary
What Youll Do:
The EMEA Field Engineering organization is the technical engine of CoreWeaves regional go-to-market. It brings together account-aligned technical teams and deep specialists to help customers design validate deploy and scale production workloads on CoreWeaves AI Cloud platform.
About the role: The Senior Director of Product & Engineering EMEA reports to the VP and Managing Director of EMEA with a matrix reporting line to the Global VP of Field Engineering and SVP of Product. As the senior field technology leader for the region you will lead all EMEA field technical functions with direct management accountability for account-aligned technical teams and matrix leadership of specialist teams. You will set the regional technical strategy build a consistently high level of mastery across the specialisms required to serve AI infrastructure customers and ensure teams are motivated appropriately deployed and equipped to succeed. Working across EMEA and global leadership you will turn customer and business priorities into a disciplined technical operating model that accelerates adoption expansion and measurable value from CoreWeaves AI Cloud platform. You will be responsible for ensuring the product strategy of CoreWeave is assimilated across field teams in EMEA and - working with field enablement - ensuring that all teams maintain a high level of product competency.
- Set and execute the EMEA Field Product & Engineering strategy operating model and priorities in partnership with the VP and Managing Director of EMEA Global VP of Field Engineering and SVP of Product.
- Act as the senior field technology voice for EMEA shaping go-to-market priorities customer engagement models technical positioning and regional investment decisions.
- Lead the account-aligned technical organization with direct accountability for organization design performance coaching succession hiring retention and leadership development across EMEA.
- Provide matrix leadership to specialist technical teams aligning priorities coverage engagement standards and accountability while partnering effectively with their global functional leaders.
- Build a measurable technical mastery systemincluding skills assessments learning plans communities of practice playbooks reference architectures and proof frameworksthat keeps teams current across AI infrastructure compute Kubernetes networking storage security observability and AI/ML workloads.
- Create repeatable engagement mechanisms that move customers from discovery and architecture through validation onboarding production readiness adoption optimization and expansion on CoreWeaves AI Cloud platform.
- Serve as executive technical sponsor and escalation leader for strategic customers advising C-suite and senior technical stakeholders and mobilizing field specialist Product Engineering Support and Operations resources around successful outcomes.
- Partner with EMEA sales leadership on account strategy technical qualification executive alignment and resource allocation sharing accountability for technical win rate qualified pipeline deal velocity time to production workload adoption and expansion.
- Establish a rigorous regional operating cadence covering goals metrics forecasting capacity and coverage planning business reviews and annual planning so performance and investment choices are visible and evidence based.
- Create a structured feedback loop from EMEA customers and field teams into Product and Engineering translating recurring requirements adoption blockers competitive signals and market dynamics into clear roadmap input.
- Represent CoreWeaves technology vision through executive briefings customer forums conferences and thought leadership while bringing relevant market insight back into the business.
- Represent EMEA in global Field Engineering leadership scale regional best practices across the company and create an inclusive high-performance environment in which teams are motivated and enabled to help customers adopt CoreWeave.
Who You Are:
- 15 years of experience in technical design implementation consulting pre-sales solutions architecture or another customer-facing technical discipline within cloud infrastructure AI/ML platforms enterprise software or adjacent markets.
- 10 years of technical leadership experience including 7 years leading managers senior individual contributors or multi-country Field Engineering Solutions Architecture Sales Engineering or comparable customer-facing technical organizations.
- A record of leading distributed technical organizations through rapid growth transformation changing market conditions and complex organizational dependencies.
- Strong technical credibility in cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture with depth across several of the following domains: accelerated compute Kubernetes networking storage security observability data platforms or AI/ML workload architecture.
- Demonstrated success guiding complex enterprise customers from strategy and solution design through validation production deployment operationalization measurable adoption and expansion.
- Experience advising C-suite and senior technical stakeholders and translating complex architecture into business value investment choices delivery risk and operating decisions.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles and connecting technical strategy to qualified pipeline technical wins deal progression customer adoption and expansion.
- A record of hiring developing and retaining technical leaders together with building measurable enablement accreditation or continuous-learning programs that close capability gaps.
- Experience operating a metrics-based field organization including goals forecasting capacity and coverage planning resource prioritization business reviews and performance inspection.
- Demonstrated ability to align Sales Customer Success Product Engineering Support Operations partners specialist teams and global leaders without relying solely on positional authority.
- Experience operating across EMEA markets with the ability to travel regionally and internationally as required to support customers teams and company priorities.
Preferred:
- Leadership experience in a high-growth AI cloud hyperscale cloud data-center infrastructure enterprise platform or developer-platform business.
- Deep familiarity with GPU-accelerated computing large-scale AI training or inference high-performance computing and the operational requirements of distributed AI workloads.
- Experience navigating EMEA-specific customer requirements including data sovereignty security regulation procurement and cross-border operating considerations.
- Experience establishing specialist communities of practice or centers of excellence influencing product roadmaps and representing a company through external technical thought leadership.
- A bachelors degree in computer science engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience; postgraduate technical or business study is valued.
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 building technical leaders and teams that combine deep expertise commercial awareness and a relentless focus on customer outcomes.
- Youre curious about the fast-moving AI infrastructure landscape and turn new learning and customer insight into practical enablement and better products.
- Youre an expert at creating clarity accountability and momentum across direct and matrixed organizations operating at high speed and across cultures.
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!
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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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