Description
The Staff, Energy Operations role is a senior position within CoreWeave's Data Center Development organization. This position is responsible for owning the site-level utilities path required to advance data center developments from early diligence through development readiness, construction alignment, and delivery to Operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning site-specific power feasibility and validation for all Development opportunities.
- Serving as a hard Development gate - no site advances without a confirmed, executable utilities path.
- Validating availability, delivery timelines, upgrade requirements, costs, and risk profiles.
The role also involves:
- Actively coordinating with utility providers to drive overall utility coordination, design reviews, infrastructure planning, development budgeting to turn over execution.
- Holding utilities and external partners accountable to agreed delivery schedules and milestones.
- Supporting on-the-ground engagement internal and external teams with utilities, municipalities, and local stakeholders.
Additionally, the role requires:
- Analyzing alternative power structures where required to accelerate delivery or mitigate risk.
- Translating alternative power paths into a clear schedule, cost, and execution impacts for Development decision-making.
This role serves as the connective tissue across Development, Operations, Finance, Legal, Gov/Tax, Sustainability, Design, and Construction, ensuring power costs, timelines, and risks are accurately reflected in Development schedules, TCO and financial models, and executive-level materials supporting go/no-go decisions.
The Staff, Energy Operations role supports construction and operational readiness but does not own construction execution.