Senior Director - EMEA Startup & VC Business Development
CoreWeave Europe · London, England
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 47 days CoreWeave Europe's roles stay open a median of 55 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of CoreWeave Europe's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at CoreWeave Europe
- high 61 stale, 2 reposted of 77 open
- Hiring momentum
- 91 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-27
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from CoreWeave Europe's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for CoreWeave Europe.
About this role
As the Senior Director of EMEA Startup Business Development at CoreWeave, you will lead efforts to position the company as the preferred platform for AI-native startups in the EMEA region. Your role involves building relationships with venture capital firms, accelerators, and universities, while developing strategic engagement plans and a high-performing team. You will focus on identifying promising startups, creating qualified opportunities for sales teams, and translating market insights into actionable strategies for CoreWeave.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of CoreWeave Europe as an employer.
What you need
- 15+ years of experience in business development, sales, partnerships, startup go-to-market or venture ecosystem leadership within cloud infrastructure, enterprise technology, AI or another complex technology environment
- Significant leadership experience building and operating startup, venture capital or ecosystem programmes across multiple EMEA markets
- A proven record of converting ecosystem relationships into qualified opportunities, technical adoption, pipeline, consumption and commercial growth
- Demonstrated experience developing senior relationships with venture capital firms, accelerators, universities, research organisations, founders, CTOs and technology executives
- Experience working with country sales organisations to create demand and accelerate customer acquisition without displacing account ownership
- Strong understanding of the startup lifecycle, from formation and seed funding through venture growth and scaled commercial operation
Nice to have
- Leadership experience within the startup organisation of a major hyperscale cloud provider, AI platform company or global infrastructure technology business
- Direct experience building or scaling a regional startup business measured through customer acquisition, workload adoption, consumption and revenue
- Experience designing the operating model between a regional startup business development organisation and country-based sales teams
- Established senior relationships across the EMEA venture capital and AI startup ecosystem
- Experience working with compute-intensive AI companies across training, fine-tuning, inference, applied AI or AI platform development
What you get
- Family-level Medical Insurance
- Family-level Dental Insurance
- Generous Pension Contribution
- Life Assurance at 4x Salary
- Critical Illness Cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
Worth weighing
- No specific salary listed, only that it will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location
- The role involves significant travel across multiple EMEA markets
- The position requires a strong external network and the ability to build repeatable systems, which may be challenging in a fast-paced environment
Summarised from CoreWeave Europe's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by CoreWeave Europe on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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