Director of Legal Operations
What You'll Do:
The Legal and Government Affairs (LGA) team at CoreWeave is highly collaborative and partners closely with teams across the company to navigate complex legal landscapes while enabling innovation and growth. The team is pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and deeply engaged in strategic decision-making, with a strong emphasis on building trusted relationships across the organization. As the Director of Legal Operations, you will support the technology and processes that power LGA's day-to-day work, from the legal tech stack and vendor management to AI adoption and operational metrics. You'll serve as the operational backbone of LGA, turning strategy and direction into action plans and execution to ensure that LGA has the infrastructure to deliver on its priorities and scale at pace with the business.
About the role:
CoreWeave's Legal Operations team serves LGA departments as the center of excellence and expertise for technology, operational processes, workflow management, vendor management, invoicing and budgeting. Reporting to the VP & Deputy General Counsel for Commercial & Business Operations, the Director of Legal Operations will lead LGA's continued transformation into an innovative, leading-edge AI and technology-enabled organization. This critical leadership role will manage a Legal Operations team to serve as the connective tissue between LGA and our global business partners, and support our company in moving efficiently, rapidly, and compliantly through a period of hyper-growth, public-company complexity, and global expansion.
In this role, you will lead and own the following areas:
Management of Core Legal Tools & Platforms: Own the selection, configuration and adoption of core legal systems (e.g., CLM, matter management, AI enabled legal platforms, e-discovery, and e-billing, etc.), ensuring reliable data and reporting. Translate LGA and business needs into practical system requirements, intake and routing process, workflows, and dashboards, and oversee administration, integrations, federation, permissions, and user adoption in partnership with the CIO-IT team and external vendors. Help lead the responsible adoption of AI across legal workflows, including governance, data classification, and measurement of impact.
Professional Services & Vendor Management: Own outside counsel and vendor spend process and management, including onboarding, invoice review, Outside Counsel Guidelines and billing compliance, rates and performance evaluations.
LGA Budget: Coordinate the LGA budget, forecasting, and accruals. Drive spend discipline, billing accuracy, and cost predictability. Provide transparent visibility into LGA costs and ROI.
Metrics, Reporting & OKRs: Partner with LGA leadership to define OKRs and operational metrics that reflect team health and business impact (e.g., cycle time, spend, outcomes, adoption rates). Build repeatable reporting by pulling and synthesizing data from core systems and dashboards (e.g., Asana, Ironclad, Salesforce, Brightflag) into clear, executive-ready views, and use that data to demonstrate measurable year-over-year improvement.
Defining Strategy & Operating Models: Lead LGA's AI evolution, adoption, and enablement in partnership with the CIO-IT team. Define and hone the multi-year LGA legal operations strategy and operating model, set the initiative roadmap, and prioritize IT and operational investments to keep LGA aligned and at pace with current and future forward business objectives. Lead change management as required to enable LGA to deliver high quality legal service, increase efficiency, and scale at pace with the business through process and AI technology tool adoption.
Cross-Vertical Support across LGA: Provide flexible, on-demand operational support across LGA's legal verticals (e.g., Real Estate, Commercial & IP, Securities, Strategic Transactions & Capital Markets, Government Affairs, Tax Incentives, Regulatory, Compliance & Privacy, Employment and Corporate) as priorities and workload shift — stepping in to fill process or resourcing gaps, stand up interim solutions, and ensure no vertical is left without operational support during periods of change or growth.
Team Leadership & Talent: Build, manage, and develop a high-performing legal operations team through hiring, coaching, performance calibration, and the cultivation of a high-trust ownership and accountability culture.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner and collaborate across finance, procurement, IT, security, privacy, compliance, sales, and other stakeholder teams. Embed process standards and align legal workflows with audit requirements and business needs.
Who You Are:
10+ years in legal operations, including significant experience at a fast-paced high-growth technology, cloud, or infrastructure company; public-company experience preferred.
Demonstrated track record of team leadership and scaling a legal operations team, including accountability for a legal technology stack, including operational platforms, CLM management (e.g., Ironclad or comparable) and AI adoption.
Experience managing outside-counsel billing platforms, e-billing, vendor management, invoicing, budget coordination, and accruals of an in-house legal department.
A track record of building scalable processes, self-service frameworks, and risk-tiered approval models in partnership with business teams.
Strong command of Legal and Government Affairs metrics and OKR/KPI development, with the ability to translate data into clear executive-level narratives.
Familiarity with responsible AI governance implementation.
Demonstrates the leadership presence, sound judgment, and cross-functional influence to partner credibly with senior leadership and peers on organizational strategy and team effectiveness; builds durable consensus among stakeholders with differing priorities, shapes collaboration norms across functions.
Proven track record of translating strategic priorities into measurable initiatives, tracking progress rigorously, and consistently closing the gap between plan and execution.
Demonstrated track record of success on cross-functional partnerships and projects with finance, procurement, IT, security, privacy, compliance, sales and other business stakeholder teams.
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Why CoreWeave?
At CoreWeave, 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 Best-in-Class Client Experiences
Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).