Senior Community Affairs & Partnerships Manager

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

As Senior Community Affairs & Partnerships Manager, you will lead community engagement across assigned markets and strengthen CoreWeave's social license to operate. You will build trusted local relationships, guide cross-functional engagement strategies, and ensure community considerations inform site selection, permitting, construction, and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead cross-functional community engagement strategies across assigned markets, partnering with Government Affairs, Communications, People, Legal, Development, Operations, and other teams to align engagement with business objectives, permitting milestones, construction schedules, and operational priorities.
• Lead Community Affairs input into site selection and project due diligence, assessing community sentiment, political dynamics, stakeholder priorities, local opposition, and reputational risk in prospective and active markets.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with elected officials, community leaders, faith-based organizations, nonprofits, unions, business groups, and other local stakeholders; represent CoreWeave in community, political, and public forums.
• Develop and execute market-specific engagement plans that identify key stakeholders, anticipate emerging issues, establish engagement milestones, and recommend practical courses of action and escalation paths.
• Lead the development and negotiation of community benefit agreements and coordinate with the Incentives, Legal, and Development teams on PILOTs, RDAs, and similar development agreements.
• Identify, recommend, and oversee local partnerships and community investments aligned with business and community priorities, including initiatives with CoreWeave Cares and Employee Action Networks.
• Establish KPIs and provide senior leaders with concise reporting and recommendations regarding stakeholder alignment, community sentiment, issue resolution, partnership outcomes, and material local risks and opportunities.
• Manage budgets for engagement activities, events, sponsorships, partnerships, and community investments while developing scalable processes, stakeholder-management practices, and coordination models for the growing Community Affairs function.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Public Affairs, Political Science, Urban Planning, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in community affairs, stakeholder engagement, social performance, public affairs, government affairs, or external relations.
• Experience supporting data centers, energy, or other large-scale critical-infrastructure development, including permitting or entitlement processes.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, multi-market stakeholder strategies and translating local developments into clear business recommendations.
• Demonstrated success building trusted relationships with senior government officials, community organizations, business groups, labor representatives, and other local stakeholders.
• Experience advising senior leaders and coordinating specialized cross-functional teams in politically sensitive or high-visibility environments.
• Experience using stakeholder-management tools and metrics to track engagement activity, risks, commitments, and outcomes.
• Ability to travel up to 50% and manage priorities across multiple markets.

Preferred:

• Experience negotiating community benefit agreements, PILOTs, RDAs, or similar development agreements.
• Experience managing corporate-giving, community-investment, sponsorship, or corporate partnership portfolios.

Benefits:

• 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