Director of Conceptual Design and Innovation

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, inspire to do your best work, and contribute to building the technology that powers the future.

Nscale is looking for a Director of Conceptual Design and Innovation to own our conceptual design portfolio, visual infrastructure strategy, Basis of Design templates, design standards, site master planning concepts, and global catalog of datacenter form factors. This role transforms ideas into compelling visual concepts that accelerate decision‑making, business development, site planning, and design execution, operating primarily at the 30% planning level to create the conceptual framework that downstream design execution teams and A/E partners use to develop full project designs.

This is a highly creative, visually driven role at the intersection of infrastructure design, 3D modeling, graphic communication, innovation, and strategic planning. The successful candidate must be exceptionally skilled with at least one professional 3D design platform and capable of rapidly producing concepts, graphics, models, and visual collateral with limited direction.

• Own and continuously develop Nscale’s catalog of conceptual datacenter designs, reference layouts, and standardized form factors
• Create planning‑level design packages that support site evaluation, business development, project initiation, and design execution
• Translate strategic ideas into visual infrastructure concepts applicable across Nscale’s global portfolio
• Develop conceptual layouts for buildings, sites, campuses, equipment zones, utility corridors, circulation, and future expansion
• Challenge traditional datacenter design approaches and explore new ways to improve speed, scalability, performance, and visual clarity

• Own and maintain Nscale’s Basis of Design templates and planning‑level design standards
• Establish consistent visual and dimensional frameworks for early‑stage datacenter planning
• Develop reusable templates for site master planning, concept packages, internal reviews, and executive presentations
• Maintain a library of standard design assumptions, equipment sizing references, planning modules, and visual components

• Serve as Nscale’s lead creator of 3D conceptual models and visual design collateral
• Rapidly develop concepts using Sketch Up, Rhino, Blender, Revit, or similar professional 3D platforms
• Produce high‑quality renderings, diagrams, site plans, massing studies, visual narratives, and presentation graphics
• Build reusable digital libraries of 3D components, design modules, graphics, and planning assets

• Leverage 3D printing to create physical models for executive reviews, customer engagement, and strategic planning
• Use 3D scanning, reality capture, and digital visualization tools to improve planning and communication where appropriate
• Explore AI‑assisted design workflows to accelerate concept generation, graphics production, and design iteration

• Develop executive‑ready design collateral for board materials, investor discussions, customer presentations, and partner engagement
• Create visuals suitable for conferences, social media, marketing, and public‑facing communications
• Help establish Nscale’s external design identity as a leader in AI datacenter infrastructure innovation

• Provide rapid‑response…