Director Legal Commercial
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead drafting and negotiation of high-value customer agreements for AI cloud and GPU infrastructure services. You will advise on deal structure, commercial risk, data privacy, security, export controls, and regulations; manage post-signature matters; build legal playbooks; train commercial teams; and mentor junior lawyers.
Requirements
- JD from an accredited US law school
- Active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar
- 8+ years of commercial legal experience, including substantial in-house experience at a cloud, SaaS, or infrastructure company
- Experience negotiating complex, high-value customer-facing agreements
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, data-center, colocation, or telecom services
- Understanding of technology contracting, SLAs, data protection, security, intellectual property, and risk allocation
- Strong drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Lead drafting and negotiation of customer agreements for AI cloud and GPU infrastructure services
- Negotiate commercial, risk, pricing, capacity-delivery, security, intellectual-property, data, liability, and termination terms
- Align customer commitments with upstream supply, data-center delivery, and financing obligations
- Support partner, reseller, marketplace, strategic-alliance, and public-sector agreements
- Advise Sales and commercial leadership on deal structure and negotiation strategy
- Advise on data privacy, security, export control, and AI-related regulations
- Manage amendments, expansions, renewals, disputes, and commercial escalations
- Develop templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval matrices
- Train Sales and Deal Desk teams and mentor junior lawyers
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation