Development Project Manager, Data Center Development

Responsibilities

Manage assigned data center development sites from acquisition through construction handoff, coordinating internal teams, consultants, permitting, diligence, utilities, schedules, budgets, and risks. Maintain project controls and executive reporting, coordinate consultant agreements and invoices, and ensure each site meets defined handoff criteria.

Requirements

Requires at least five years of relevant project or program management experience in data center, mission-critical, or large-scale capital development, with demonstrated pre-construction schedule and budget ownership. Candidates should have working knowledge of permitting, due diligence, project controls, consultant coordination, and executive reporting, plus a relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience and willingness to travel.

Skills

• Integrated Project Delivery
• Project Schedule Management
• Critical Path Management
• Budget Tracking
• Cash Flow Forecasting
• Risk Management
• Entitlement and Permitting
• Due Diligence Coordination
• Utility Coordination
• Construction Handoff
• Executive Reporting
• Project Controls
• Consultant Coordination
• Stakeholder Management
• Smartsheet
• Microsoft Project

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Company-Paid Life Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Mental Wellness Benefits
• Family-Forming Support
• Paid Parental Leave
• Childcare Support
• 401(k) With Employer Match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Catered Lunch

About this role

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
What You’ll Do
CoreWeave’s Strategic Programs and Global Expansion organization delivers the physical capacity behind The Essential Cloud for AI. Within it, the Self-Development group carries sites from acquisition through construction handoff: diligence, entitlements and permitting, pre-development design, utility coordination, and the budget, schedule, and risk controls that bring a site to construction start. The team is small, experienced, and accountable for the critical path on projects that enable CoreWeave’s compute growth.
About the Role
This role manages day-to-day execution for assigned self-development sites, partnering with the Principals who lead development strategy and key commercial decisions. You will maintain integrated schedules, track budgets and risks, coordinate internal teams and external consultants, and prepare each site for construction handoff. Principals retain accountability for investment recommendations, material budget and schedule changes, and development decisions.
Manage integrated project delivery for assigned self-development sites from acquisition through construction handoff, coordinating internal functions and external parties against agreed milestones and dated deliverables.
Build and maintain the integrated project schedule, including the critical path, milestone exit criteria, dependencies, and deliverables across contributing teams.
Maintain the Owner’s Budget through handoff, including cash flow forecasting, variance reporting against approved capital, and escalation of changes requiring approval.
Coordinate entitlement and permitting workstreams with development leads and external consultants, maintaining the permit matrix, submittal schedule, and approval dependencies, and supporting relationships with authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs).
Coordinate diligence and closing workstreams with Legal and technical leads—including title, survey, geotechnical, and environmental reviews—tracking conditions precedent through satisfaction or approved waiver.
Coordinate delivery across Design, Construction, Power, Legal, Environmental Health and Safety, and Corporate Affairs and Government Affairs, running site meetings and maintaining action logs with named owners and dated commitments.
Maintain the site risk register, track mitigation actions with named owners, and escalate issues against defined thresholds.
Prepare executive-facing status reports and maintain a consistent source of truth across project trackers, pipeline reporting, and site records.
Coordinate pre-construction consultant scope, onboarding, statements of work, purchase orders, and invoice validation within established approval processes.
Coordinate handoff to Construction against defined exit criteria: site control closed; permits secured or sequenced with dated approvals; budget and schedule baselined; risk register transferred with named owners; required utility agreements executed; and documentation and system access transferred.
Who You Are
5+ years of relevant project or program management experience in data center, mission-critical, or large-scale capital development, preferably on the owner’s side.
Demonstrated ownership of significant pre-construction workstreams, including integrated schedule management and budget tracking for land acquisition, site development, or construction readiness.
Working knowledge of entitlement and permitting processes, including AHJ submittals and approval sequencing.
Experience coordinating due diligence workstreams—including title, survey, geotechnical, and environmental reviews—and tracking closing requirements.
Proven ability to drive follow-through on agreed deliverables across internal teams and external parties without direct authority.
Proficiency with project controls and reporting tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent, and the ability to turn project information into clear executive reporting.
Experience coordinating consultant agreements, statements of work, purchase orders, and invoice validation.
Sound judgment in identifying risks, managing dependencies, and escalating decisions to project leaders.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, real estate, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Willingness to travel to project sites as required.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting development of greenfield, brownfield, or powered-land data center sites at 25 MW and above.
Familiarity with local permitting and utility processes and their sequencing.
PMP or equivalent formal project management certification.
Experience establishing or improving project controls and reporting processes.
Experience transitioning work from external consultants or contract resources to an internal team.
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
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About CoreWeave

Technology, Information and Internet · 1,001-5,000 employees · headquartered in New York, NY · founded 2017