Director, Legal; Cybersecurity

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.

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. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

We're looking for a U.S.

-based Director, Legal (Cybersecurity) to serve as Nscale's lead cybersecurity counsel as we scale into a publicly listed global AI infrastructure company. Reporting to the General Counsel and SVP, Commercial Partnerships, you'll be the primary legal partner to our CISO and Security organization. You'll also work closely with AI infrastructure, data center operations, engineering, commercial legal, procurement, privacy, finance, and the executive team.

This role is critical to building trust with customers, regulators, and investors. You'll own the legal strategy for incident response and cyber disclosure and help embed security-by-design across our cloud and data center footprint. You'll help shape how Nscale meets the security expectations of hyperscalers, AI labs, enterprises, regulated industries, and the public sector. You'll be a pragmatic, commercially minded leader who can move from the war room to the boardroom with equal credibility.

• Serve as the CISO's closest legal partner, advising the Security team on security programs, policies, controls, and risk decisions.
• Lead and manage external counsel as a hands-on, player-coach leader.
• Build and lead Nscale's cybersecurity legal and regulatory compliance program across the U.S., and support execution in the UK, EU, and other regions.
• Advise on the legal side of security frameworks and certifications, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FedRAMP, and CMMC.
• Support Board, Audit Committee, and executive reporting on cyber risk and governance.

• Lead legal strategy for security incidents and investigations, including directing privileged investigations, engaging forensic firms and outside counsel, and coordinating with law enforcement.
• Own breach notification analysis and execution across U.S. state, federal, and international regimes, and customer contractual obligations.
• Partner with Finance, Securities counsel, and Investor Relations on SEC cybersecurity disclosure obligations, covering materiality assessments, Form 8-K reporting, and annual 10-K governance disclosures.
• Design and run incident response playbooks and executive tabletop exercises, and maintain a response posture ready for ransomware and extortion events.

• Monitor and advise on the evolving cyber regulatory landscape, including CIRCIA, SEC rules, FTC and state enforcement, NIS2, DORA, and UK cyber resilience legislation.
• Advise on security obligations tied to critical infrastructure, data centers, and public sector and regulated-industry customers.
• Manage regulatory enquiries and engagement with cyber and data regulators.

• Partner with commercial legal and procurement on security terms in customer and supplier contracts, including security addenda, audit rights, incident notification, liability, and SLAs.
• Lead security due diligence and contractual controls across the supply chain, including hardware, software, and colocation partners.
• Advise on cyber insurance coverage, claims, and renewals.
• Support M&A, investor diligence, and strategic…