About the Role
The Employment Legal team advises on the full employment lifecycle across all global jurisdictions, partnering with leaders to provide practical legal guidance on hiring, workplace policies, compliance, employee relations, and dispute resolution. As Senior Counsel, Employment, Europe, you will be a key employment law adviser for CoreWeave's European operations, helping to build scalable employment law coverage for a rapidly growing, multi-jurisdictional workforce.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day and strategic advice on employment law matters across Europe, including recruiting, hiring, terminations, redundancies, and employment and separation documentation.
- Advise on collective employment matters, including works councils, employee consultation requirements, and TUPE-related issues (and equivalent EU transfer-of-undertaking regimes) arising from restructurings or business transfers.
- Support internal workplace investigations and employee relations matters, escalating and coordinating with outside counsel as needed.
- Partner with the Privacy, Regulatory & Compliance Legal team to advise on data privacy and employment law intersections, including Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and employee monitoring.
- Partner with the People team to manage EORs, PEOs, and other workforce arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Advise on cross-border mobility and immigration-related considerations as CoreWeave expands its footprint across the region.
- Draft, review, and interpret employment policies, agreements, and procedures tailored to local legal requirements.
- Oversee employment-related disputes and litigation across the region, including employment tribunal claims, agency and regulatory complaints, and pre-litigation demands, from early assessment through resolution.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments across Europe and proactively flag risks and trends to Legal, People, and business stakeholders.
- Support the management of outside counsel, including local and regional counsel, by coordinating requests, reviewing work product, and escalating recommendations as appropriate.
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant employment law experience, including advising on European workforce matters, gained through a combination of top-tier law firm practice and in-house experience at high-growth technology companies.
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales.
- Demonstrated experience advising on multi-jurisdictional employment matters, including collective employment issues such as works councils, employee consultation requirements, and TUPE (and EU equivalents).
- Experience with employment law issues arising from M&A, international expansion, or restructurings.
- Experience working with EORs and/or PEOs, local counsel, or regional People teams across Europe.
- Working knowledge of GDPR and its intersection with employment matters, including data subject access requests (DSARs) and employee monitoring.
- Ability to independently handle complex employment law matters, while exercising sound judgment regarding escalation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people, collaborate with diverse business groups, and build strong working relationships across time zones.
- Excellent drafting, written, verbal communication, legal interpretation, and research skills.
- A commitment to professional conduct, excellence, and meticulous attention to detail, sometimes under time pressure.
- Ability to balance legal risk mitigation against business objectives with guidance from senior leaders.
- Experience working with or coordinating outside counsel, including local/regional counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience advising on employment matters in the Middle East and/or Africa.
- Experience supporting immigration and cross-border mobility matters.
- Ability to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, no matter the task.
- Curiosity about building the essential cloud for AI and helping to enable the growth of the company internationally.
- Expertise in providing employment legal support in a fast-paced, high-growth, scaling technology business.
- Successful applicants offered employment will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results.
Skills
- Employment law
- European workforce matters
- Multi-jurisdictional employment matters
- Collective employment issues
- Works councils
- Employee consultation requirements
- TUPE
- M&A
- International expansion
- Restructurings
- EORs
- PEOs
- GDPR
- Data privacy
- Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)
- Employee monitoring
- Cross-border mobility
- Immigration
- Policy drafting
- Agreement review
- Legal interpretation
- Dispute resolution
- Litigation oversight
- Legislative and regulatory monitoring
- Outside counsel management
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Collaboration
- Legal drafting
- Legal research
- Attention to detail
- Risk mitigation
- Business objectives alignment
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales
Benefits
- Family-level Medical Insurance
- Family-level Dental Insurance
- Generous Pension Contribution
- Life Assurance at 4x Salary
- Critical Illness Cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Work culture focused on innovative disruption
About the Company
- 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.
- We're proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
