Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

What You’ll Do:

The Legal and Government Affairs 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 Legal Counsel, Intellectual Property, you will advise the business on a wide range of intellectual property (IP) matters across CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform, software products, and data center infrastructure, from licensing and AI-related IP questions to our patent, trademark, and open source programs. If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems, and are eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you.

About the role:

Reporting to the Managing Director & Associate General Counsel, Technology, IP & Product, you will help protect and grow CoreWeave’s IP portfolio and negotiate the IP terms that underpin our customer, vendor, partnership, and strategic agreements. You will also build the policies, playbooks and templates that let the business move quickly while managing IP risk. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Commercial teams, as well as legal colleagues across multiple functions.

In this Role You Will:

• Manage CoreWeave's trademark and domain name portfolio, including clearance searches, product and feature naming review, and direction of outside counsel on filings and prosecution in the US and internationally
• Monitor for infringement and handle brand protection and enforcement, including cease-and-desist letters, platform takedowns, and responses to third-party notices
• Draft, negotiate, and review marketing, events, and brand agreements, including production agreements, sponsorship agreements, attendee agreements, content waivers and releases, and co-branding deals
• Review marketing, advertising, and communications materials for IP, advertising, and other legal risk
• Develop and maintain IP playbooks, templates, and intake processes, and train marketing, brand, and HR partners on IP best practices
• Support the broader IP team as needs arise, such as invention disclosure intake, subpoena intake and triage, and litigation coordination with internal teams

Who You Are:

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Admitted to practice law, with an active bar membership in at least one US state
• At least 4 years of IP practice experience with a law firm, in-house role, or government agency (or a combination), with meaningful trademark and/or commercial IP experience
• Strong working knowledge of US trademark law and general knowledge of patent and copyright law
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, ideally marketing, events, media, or brand-related
• Ability to manage a high volume of matters, prioritize across multiple stakeholders, and know when to escalate
• Organized and process-minded, with experience tracking deadlines across many parallel matters and comfort using AI and workflow tools to scale legal work
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills, including with non-lawyer partners in marketing, HR, product and engineering

Preferred:

• Experience in-house at a technology company, or with software and/or cloud computing business models
• Experience with international trademark prosecution and enforcement, including EU/UK
• Exposure to subpoena response, discovery, or litigation support
• Experience at a high-growth or recently public technology company
• Undergraduate or advanced degree in a technical field

Wondering if you’re 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 aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

• You take a pragmatic, proactive and business-focused approach to solving problems.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment and stay steady when priorities shift.
• You’re curious about technology and enjoy working with engineers to understand how our platform, software and hardware work.
• You’re team-oriented and collaborate easily with legal colleagues and business partners across functions and time zones.

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 $122,000 to $163,000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the 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).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance 
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance 
• Short and long-term disability insurance 
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health 
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave 
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.  CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.