Energy Market Development, Commercial Lead

CoreWeave•New York, NY

18d•Hybrid

About The Position

CoreWeave 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 CoreWeave’s utility engagement strategy—from early market engagement and power procurement through interconnection execution—ensuring that power availability enables, rather than limits, CoreWeave’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 CoreWeave’s aggressive deployment timelines.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Act as CoreWeave’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 CoreWeave 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 CoreWeave 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 CoreWeave’s ability to access power.
Monitor evolving utility and regulatory approaches to hyperscale and AI-driven load growth.