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About Nscale
Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work.
About The Role
We are hiring a Chief of Staff, Legal to serve as a strategic partner and force multiplier to the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and the Legal leadership team at Nscale. This is a highly visible role focused on driving alignment, operational rigour, and execution against the Legal function’s most critical priorities, as well as ensuring Legal is tightly integrated into the company’s operating rhythm.
You will operate at the intersection of strategy and execution: shaping leadership agendas, driving cross-functional initiatives (with Finance, People, Product, Engineering, GTM, and Operations), leveraging and optimising external stakeholder relationships, supporting decision-making processes, and ensuring accountability across the Legal organisation. This role requires exceptional judgement and organisation, executive presence, analytical capability, and the ability to influence without direct authority.
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategic partnership & leadership enablement
Serve as a trusted advisor to the CLO, helping shape priorities and ensuring alignment across the Legal leadership team. Design and manage the operating rhythm for Legal: leadership meetings, global team management, quarterly reviews, annual planning cycles, and cross-functional stakeholder cadences. Prepare executive briefings and decision-support materials (including board and committee materials, where relevant) to drive clarity and alignment. Anticipate risks, surface trade-offs, and support high-quality decisions for the CLO and Legal leadership.
Legal-wide execution & cross-functional leadership
Drive execution of Legal’s highest-priority initiatives (e.g., operating model changes, policy rollouts, tooling/process improvements), ensuring clear ownership, milestones, and measurable outcomes. Partner with functional leaders to remove blockers and maintain execution momentum on company priorities that require significant legal input. Lead or co-lead cross-functional projects requiring executive coordination and strong stakeholder management. Co-ordinate matter management and project discipline across the legal & compliance function, through implementation and continuous improvement of precedents, tooling, advisory panels, cross-functional governance controls and systemic reporting. Establish and track KPIs/OKRs aligned to Legal’s strategic objectives and provide visibility on progress and risks.
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Planning, governance & stakeholder management
Own and continuously improve Legal planning processes (OKRs, resourcing and budgeting alignment, performance metrics). Support board and SLT engagement by coordinating materials, metrics, and follow-ups tied to Legal and governance commitments. Ensure accountability mechanisms are in place across the Legal leadership team.
Communication & alignment
Draft and refine internal communications on Legal priorities, key initiatives, and operating updates. Ensure consistent messaging and alignment from Legal leadership to the broader organisation. Facilitate Legal offsites, leadership workshops, practical legal training, professional development and strategy sessions.
Continuous improvement & scaling
Identify opportunities to improve decision-making frameworks, operating models, and internal processes as Legal scales globally. Act as a cultural steward, reinforcing accountability, transparency, and high-performance standards within Legal.
What You Need
10+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, investment banking or top-tier legal practice, high-growth technology environments, or similar roles. Proven experience working closely with a C-suite or equivalent leadership team (preferably in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment). Strong financial and operational acumen, with the ability to translate strategy into measurable execution plans. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing senior executive materials. High emotional intelligence and executive presence; able to influence and build trust across senior stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-paced, high-growth environments. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority. High degree of discretion when handling sensitive or confidential information.
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Nice to haves
Experience in or with top-tier law firms, in-house legal functions, legal operations, governance, compliance, or regulated environments. Experience supporting board/audit committee processes and governance rhythms. Familiarity with OKR design and operating cadence design in scaling organisations.
What We Can Offer You
At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.
Highly competitive compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀
Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. ✨
Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
Salary Range
The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
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