Director, Energy Market Development

What You'll Do:

Core Weave is hiring a Commercial Lead, Energy Market Development to lead and scale our relationships with electric utilities, grid operators, and related stakeholders across the United States.

This person will own Core Weave’s utility engagement strategy—from early market engagement and power procurement through interconnection execution—ensuring that power availability enables, rather than limits, Core Weave’s rapid AI infrastructure growth.

The role will serve as a senior, trusted interface with utilities, aligning utility planning, infrastructure investment, and regulatory processes with Core Weave’s aggressive deployment timelines.

• Act as Core Weave’s primary executive point of contact for U.S. electric utilities, cooperatives, municipal utilities, and grid operators.
• Build deep, durable relationships with utility leadership, planning, and large-load teams in priority markets.
• Lead discussions around power availability, load growth planning, and long-term infrastructure needs tied to AI data centers.

• Partner with internal teams to secure power supply through utility service, special contracts, tariffs, and other commercial arrangements.
• Negotiate power delivery frameworks that support large, fast-ramping AI loads, including phased delivery and interim solutions where needed.
• Help structure approaches to infrastructure cost allocation, upgrades, and timelines.

• Drive strategy and execution for large-load interconnections, including transmission and distribution studies, upgrades, and approvals.
• Identify and proactively address bottlenecks in utility processes that could delay Core Weave deployments.
• Establish internal playbooks and escalation paths for constrained or high-risk power markets.

• Partner with real estate, data center development, and engineering teams to evaluate power feasibility and risk for new sites.
• Help Core Weave gain competitive advantage by entering markets with strong utility alignment and execution certainty.

• Work with legal and public policy teams on utility regulatory matters impacting large-load customers.
• Support engagement with regulators and policymakers where utility frameworks affect Core Weave’s ability to access power.
• Monitor evolving utility and regulatory approaches to hyperscale and AI-driven load growth.

• 15+ years of experience in electric utilities, energy infrastructure, grid planning, or large-scale power procurement.
• Deep understanding of utility operations, transmission and distribution systems, and large-load interconnection processes.
• Proven experience building and managing senior-level utility relationships.
• Strong commercial instincts and experience negotiating complex, infrastructure-heavy agreements.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, high-growth environment with real execution pressure.

• Experience supporting data centers, hyperscalers, or other energy-intensive infrastructure.
• Familiarity with ISO/RTO markets and utility regulatory structures in the U.S.
• Experience working across multiple utility territories and market types (IOU, co-op, muni).
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and creating structure where none exists.

• Core Weave has clear, executable power paths for current and future U.S. deployments.
• Utilities view Core Weave as a credible, sophisticated, long-term partner, not just a large load request.
• Interconnection timelines are shortened, risks are surfaced early, and power constraints are proactively managed.
• Power access becomes a competitive advantage rather than a growth limiter.

Why Core Weave?

At Core Weave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver…