About this Counsel, Credits and Incentives Compliance role at CoreWeave
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 Counsel, Credits and Incentives, you will help protect the value of the tax credits, abatements, and economic development incentives supporting CoreWeave’s growth and infrastructure investments. You will oversee compliance throughout the post-award lifecycle, translate complex requirements into practical processes, and help the company meet its commitments across multiple jurisdictions. 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 Credits and Incentives team lead, you will manage the reporting, documentation, and risk-mitigation activities associated with CoreWeave’s incentives portfolio. You will partner closely with Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Accounting, Operations, and external advisors to ensure contractual, statutory, and regulatory requirements are met accurately and on time. Your work will help preserve the financial value of awarded incentives while minimizing exposure to clawbacks, penalties, and other compliance risks.
In this Role You Will:
- Manage the end-to-end compliance lifecycle for tax credits and incentives, including monitoring requirements, deadlines, and reporting obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Prepare, review, and submit required filings, certifications, and compliance reports to governmental agencies.
- Ensure all reporting is consistent with the terms of incentive agreements and applicable statutes.
- Maintain a centralized compliance calendar and tracking system for all incentives.
- Maintain complete and organized records of incentive agreements, compliance filings, and supporting documentation.
- Ensure readiness for audits, agency inquiries, and internal reviews.
- Monitor performance against incentive requirements (e.g., job creation, wage thresholds, investment levels).
- Identify potential compliance risks and escalate issues proactively.
- Support development and maintenance of internal policies, procedures, and playbooks for incentive compliance.
- Implement best practices for tracking, documentation, and reporting.
Who You Are:
- 4+ years of experience with credits and incentives, tax, economic development, or state and local tax (SALT).
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional requirements.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to synthesize legal requirements into operational processes.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple stakeholders.
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and active admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience working with large datasets is preferred.
The base salary range for this role is $122,000 to $163,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and 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: [email protected].
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.
