Senior Counsel, Employment

CoreWeave; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Equity awards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a senior Employment Lawyer to guide the APAC region on employment law, compliance and workforce matters as the company scales globally. You will partner with People, Privacy, Tax and Legal teams to advise on hiring, separations, investigations, and multi-jurisdictional issues across APAC.

You will lead significant regional workstreams, liaise with outside counsel, and help build scalable legal frameworks to support international expansion and ongoing growth.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with multi-jurisdictional APAC employment experience.
• Experience advising on M&A, international expansion and restructurings.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and risk assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day and strategic employment law guidance across APAC.
• Advise on collective relations, investigations, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Privacy, Regulatory & Compliance teams on data privacy intersections.
• Support EOR/PEO transitions and international workforce arrangements.
• Lead employment-related disputes and coordinate with outside counsel.
• Develop scalable regional frameworks, playbooks, and training.

Skills

Employment law

APAC experience

English fluency

Stakeholder management

M&A integration

Outside counsel management

Education

Qualified lawyer in APAC

Job description

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

The Employment Legal team sits within CoreWeave's Legal & Government Affairs (LGA) organisation and advises the business on the full employment lifecycle across all jurisdictions in which we operate globally. The team partners with leaders across the business to provide practical, business-minded legal guidance on hiring, workplace policies, compliance, employee relations, and dispute resolution as CoreWeave scales internationally. The team is pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and deeply engaged in strategic decision-making, with a strong emphasis on building trusted relationships across the organisation.

About The Role

Reporting to the Senior Managing Associate General Counsel, Employment, you will partner closely with the People team and other key stakeholders, including local APAC People leads and HRBPs, Privacy & Compliance, Tax, Payroll, Data Center Operations, Commercial, and Corporate Development, to provide strategic and day-to-day employment law advice across APAC and lead significant regional employment workstreams.

In This Role, You Will

• Provide day-to-day and strategic advice on employment law matters across APAC, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, terminations, redundancies, restructurings, and employment and separation documentation, including on complex, sensitive, and high-impact matters involving senior stakeholders or multiple jurisdictions.
• Advise on collective employment and industrial relations matters, including trade unions and collective or enterprise agreements, works rules and labour-management councils, and other employee representative bodies and statutory consultation requirements, including in connection with restructurings or business transfers.
• Advise on 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 employee data rights and access requests, background screening, employee monitoring, and other workplace privacy issues.
• Partner with the People team on EORs, PEOs, and other workforce arrangements across multiple jurisdictions, including transitions from EOR/PEO to direct employment.
• Advise on the employment aspects of new-country launches, entity build-outs, and other international expansion initiatives across the region, including identifying legal and operational requirements, risks, dependencies, and appropriate implementation approaches.
• 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, while identifying opportunities for regional consistency and scalable approaches where appropriate.
• Support the employment aspects of M&A and other strategic transactions, including employment diligence, employee transfer and consultation requirements, transaction-related employment documentation, and post-closing integration.
• Lead the day-to-day management of employment-related disputes and litigation across the region, including employment and industrial-relations claims and proceedings, tribunal and administrative matters, regulatory complaints, and pre-litigation demands, escalating material strategy, settlement, and other significant decisions as appropriate.
• Serve as a senior employment-law partner to colleagues in Legal, People, and business teams across the Americas and Europe, including across time zones and, as needed, outside local business hours, to support a global, always-on workforce.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments across APAC and proactively flag risks, trends, and strategic implications to Legal, People, and business stakeholders.
• Support the management of outside counsel, including local and regional counsel, by appropriately scoping requests, coordinating day-to-day workstreams, reviewing and translating advice into practical guidance, and escalating material recommendations and decisions as appropriate.
• Identify recurring legal and operational issues and develop scalable regional frameworks, playbooks, templates, training, and processes to address them.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior stakeholders on emerging employment risks and help establish regional priorities and risk-management approaches in partnership with Employment Legal leadership.

Who You Are

• 9+ years of relevant employment law experience, including advising on APAC workforce matters, gained through a combination of law firm practice and in-house experience in a multinational environment; experience at a global technology or publicly traded company is strongly preferred.
• Qualified lawyer admitted to practice in at least one APAC jurisdiction (e.g., Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong).
• Demonstrated depth of experience advising on multi-jurisdictional employment matters across APAC, including collective employment and industrial relations issues.
• Experience supporting employment aspects of M&A, international expansion, and/or restructurings, including diligence, employee transfers or integration, and consultation requirements where applicable.
• Experience with EORs, PEOs, or comparable workforce models across APAC.
• Working knowledge of data privacy laws in relevant APAC jurisdictions and their intersection with employment matters.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex, high-impact employment matters, balance legal risk against business objectives, provide clear and practical recommendations, and exercise sound judgment regarding when consultation or escalation is appropriate.
• Strong executive presence and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences, collaborate across functions, and build trusted relationships across jurisdictions and 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.
• Experience working with or coordinating outside counsel, including local/regional counsel across multiple jurisdictions, with sound judgment regarding when external expertise is warranted and when matters can appropriately be handled in-house.
• Demonstrated ability to identify systemic issues and develop scalable legal frameworks, policies, processes, or playbooks rather than addressing recurring matters solely on a case-by-case basis.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information, establish priorities among competing demands, and drive complex cross-functional workstreams to resolution.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in another relevant language is a plus.

Preferred

• Track record of building or scaling employment legal infrastructure, processes, and stakeholder relationships in-region, ideally as a first or early in-house employment hire.
• Experience supporting immigration and cross-border mobility matters.

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

• You love to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, no matter the task
• You’re curious about building the essential cloud for AI and helping to enable the growth of the company internationally
• You’re an experienced, trusted advisor in providing employment legal support in a fast-paced, high-growth, scaling technology business
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, making practical judgment calls that keep the business moving

Why CoreWeave?

About

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

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organisation's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the 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).