Director of Legal Operations

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Own outside counsel and vendor spend process and management, including onboarding, invoice review, Outside Counsel Guidelines and billing compliance, rates and performance evaluations.
• Coordinate the LGA budget, forecasting, and accruals. Drive spend discipline, billing accuracy, and cost predictability. Provide transparent visibility into LGA costs and ROI.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

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.