Senior Manager

Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers Core Weave 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 Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017 Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

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What Youll Do:

The Talent Acquisition team at Core Weave is responsible for building the engine that powers our AI cloud In Operations. We run a pod-based model where recruiters sourcers and coordinators are tightly aligned to Ops leaders to deliver high-bar technical talent at scale.

The Senior Manager Talent Acquisition is a strategic leader responsible for scaling Core Weaves Operations organization. This leader will sit in our London office reporting to the Director of TA in the US and lead the data center operations recruiting pods partnering directly with senior technology leaders and TA leadership to design and execute hiring strategies across multiple functions and levels.

This role is ideal for a seasoned recruiting leader who thrives in high-growth environments leads with both data and heart and knows how to build teams and processes that deliver outstanding results.

About the Role:

As a Senior Manager Recruiting you will build and lead a high-performing team of specialized recruiters that supports key organizations at Core Weave (for example: Data Center Operations Supply Chain and IT across EMEA). You will own full-funnel recruiting performance for your pod(s) from intake to offerwhile also personally leading senior or hard-to-fill searches as needed.

In this role you will:

• Own and evolve hiring strategies for your pod(s) across multiple teams and levels aligning plans to headcount forecasts product roadmaps and org design in partnership with Data Center Operations Construction Procurement etc.
• Lead coach and develop a team of technical recruiters (and where applicable sourcers) creating a collaborative metrics-driven culture centered on excellence learning and high accountability.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior operations leaders: calibrate roles and levels using Core Weaves job architecture and leveling framework prioritize requisitions and drive data-informed hiring decisions and tradeoffs.
• Champion a world-class candidate experience ensuring clear communication timely feedback and thoughtful closingfrom first touch through offer acceptance and handoff to onboarding.
• Leverage data and analytics (from Greenhouse Lattice-aligned levels and internal TA dashboards) to improve pipeline conversion recruiter capacity planning time-to-fill sourcing channel performance and quality of hire.

Who You Are:

• 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a strong focus on technical roles in high-growth or complex technology environments
• 3 years of experience leading and developing recruiters and/or sourcers including performance management coaching and building a high-accountability high-support culture.
• Experience building and optimizing recruiting processes at scale ideally in a pod-based or embedded recruiting model aligned to engineering domains.
• Comfortable working with data and tooling: experienced using Greenhouse ATS/CRM data Lattice-aligned levels and TA dashboards to run your business tell a clear story with metrics and make continuous improvements.
• Expertise with modern recruiting and sourcing tools (e.g. Linked In Recruiter Gem or similar CRM Greenhouse ATS) and collaboration platforms used at Core Weave (e.g. Slack Google Workspace Zoom Lattice).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a track record of building trust across Talent Acquisition People and senior business stakeholders.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with job architecture leveling frameworks and promotion criteria and how these intersect with recruiting performance and compensation decisions in a scaling company.
• Background in high-growth or hyperscaler-like environments where hiring velocity quality of hire diversity and operational rigor are all critical.

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 coaching recruiters and seeing their skills confidence and impact grow over timeand youre energized by building a high-performing high-trust team.
• Youre curious about how engineering leaders think about roadmap org design and team health and you enjoy being their strategic thought partner on talent and hiring strategy.
• Youre an expert at turning ambiguous or shifting hiring goals into clear plans metrics and repeatable…