Director, Compensation

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. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at  www.coreweave.com .

What You’ll Do:

You'll join CoreWeave's Total Rewards organization, the team responsible for how we pay, incentivize, and retain the people building the infrastructure behind modern AI. We operate at the intersection of People, Finance, Legal, and the business, designing programs that hold up to public-company scrutiny while moving at the speed of a company still in hyper-growth. 

About the role:

As Director, Compensation, you'll own executive compensation end to end — including preparation of Compensation Committee materials and executive pay recommendations developed in partnership with our independent compensation consultant. You'll serve as the senior compensation advisor to executive leaders, lead a team supporting offer strategy and exceptions, and drive the retention of critical talent across the company. You'll also own the design, deployment, communication, and governance of broad-based compensation programs at scale. This is a highly visible role with direct exposure to the executive team, and cross-functional leadership.

Executive Compensation & Board Governance  

Own executive compensation end to end, including program design, benchmarking, pay positioning, incentive plan structure, and annual and off-cycle recommendations for the executive team. 

Own the preparation of Compensation Committee materials , partnering with the independent compensation consultant on agendas, market analyses, pay recommendations, plan design proposals, and supporting appendices; manage the annual Committee calendar and pre-read cycle. 

Serve as the primary day-to-day partner to the independent compensation consultant , directing scope, data requests, market studies, and analysis so that recommendations are defensible, timely, and aligned to CoreWeave's strategy. 

Partner with Legal and Finance on disclosure and governance , including CD&A and proxy compensation tables, pay ratio and pay-versus-performance reporting, Say-on-Pay considerations, and evolving regulatory and proxy advisor expectations. 

Advise on incentive plan economics , modeling cost, dilution, share usage, accounting treatment, and performance-metric design in partnership with Finance and Accounting. 

Executive & Leader Advisory  

Own compensation consulting with executive leaders , acting as the trusted advisor on pay decisions for their organizations — leveling, promotions, market pressure, internal equity, and the compensation implications of organizational design. 

Translate complex compensation concepts into clear guidance and crisp recommendations for audiences ranging from front-line managers to the Board. 

Partner closely with HR Business Partners and Recruiting to align pay strategy with workforce plans, hiring demand, and the competitive landscape for AI and infrastructure talent. 

Team Leadership, Offers & Retention  

Lead, coach, and develop a team of compensation professionals who manage job offer review and exception approvals, partnering with Recruiting to deliver competitive offers with speed and consistency. 

Set and govern the offer exception framework — thresholds, approval routing, escalation paths, and reporting — so exceptions are principled, tracked, and defensible rather than ad hoc. 

Own retention strategy for critical talent , identifying flight risk in partnership with leaders and People teams and designing and executing targeted retention actions, including equity refresh, off-cycl …