Senior Counsel, Employment

The role

The Senior Counsel, Employment will own a broad portfolio of U.S. employment matters, disputes, and strategic projects. You will provide business-minded advice and build scalable employment-law processes for the U.S. workforce.

What you will do

• Provide advice on U.S. employment matters including hiring, agreements, performance, investigations, and terminations.
• Manage employment disputes and pre-litigation matters from assessment through resolution.
• Provide business-focused recommendations that balance legal risk with operational objectives.
• Build trusted partnerships with People and business stakeholders.
• Draft, review, and improve employment policies and workforce documentation.
• Monitor statutes, regulations, case law, and agency guidance.
• Identify recurring issues and build scalable frameworks, templates, and processes.
• Partner with regional employment counsel on cross-border matters.
• Support the management of U.S. outside counsel.
• Support employment aspects of M&A and other strategic transactions.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant employment-law and litigation experience.
• Experience advising a multi-state U.S. workforce.
• Experience managing employment disputes and litigation.
• Experience gained through a combination of law-firm and in-house roles, or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. employment law.
• Ability to independently own complex employment matters.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.
• Strong problem-solving and business judgment.
• Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication, legal interpretation, and research skills.
• Experience scoping, managing, and evaluating outside counsel.
• J.D. degree and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.

Nice to have

• Experience at a global high-growth technology, AI/cloud-infrastructure, or publicly traded company.
• Experience coordinating cross-border employment matters or global workforce programs.
• Experience supporting selected non-employment litigation or broader legal workstreams.

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

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. person (citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), eligible to access export controlled information without authorization, or eligible and likely to ob

About the company

CoreWeave is a cloud platform for AI that delivers technology, tools, and teams to enable innovators to build and scale AI. Founded in 2017, it became a publicly traded company in March 2025.