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. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead, DC Infrastructure - AMER to lead and scale hiring across our Data Center Infrastructure and Energy & Power organizations in the United States. This is a player-coach role: you will lead and develop a team of recruiters while also personally owning critical requisitions. You will be responsible for end-to-end hiring delivery, operational excellence, and recruiting strategy, ensuring we attract and hire top-tier talent in highly competitive markets. You will partner closely with senior and executive stakeholders to align hiring plans with business growth, bring market intelligence into workforce decisions, and build a high-performing, data-driven recruiting function.
What You'll Be Doing
Team Leadership & Talent Strategy:- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of recruiters supporting DC Infrastructure and Energy & Power hiring across the US.Establish clear performance expectations and drive accountability across hiring delivery, quality, and candidate experience.
- Partner with business and executive leaders to translate workforce plans into scalable recruiting strategies.
- Contribute to the evolution of recruiting operations, including tools, processes, and team structure to support growth
- Hands-On Recruiting & Hiring Delivery
- Personally lead high-impact, complex, and senior-level searches across DC Infrastructure and Energy & Power functions.
- Own full-cycle recruiting including intake, calibration, sourcing strategy, structured assessment, offer negotiation, and closing.
- Support hiring for senior individual contributors through leadership-level roles.
Operational Excellence, Reporting & Analytics:- Own and report on key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, hiring velocity, and quality of hire.
- Use data and insights to identify gaps, improve funnel efficiency, and drive continuous improvement.
- Build scalable reporting frameworks to provide visibility into hiring progress and risks. Workforce Planning & Market Intelligence
- Partner with leadership on headcount planning, hiring forecasts, and prioritization across teams.
- Bring deep market insight across compensation, talent availability, and competitor landscape within US technical markets. ● Develop proactive pipelines and talent maps for recurring and hard-to-fill roles, as well as potential new locations that Nscale may move into.
Candidate Experience & Hiring Quality:
Drive best-in-class hiring practices through structured interviewing, calibrated scorecards, and consistent decision-making.
Ensure a high-quality, inclusive, and transparent candidate experience.
Support and influence strong offer management and closing strategies in competitive talent markets.
About You:- ~10+ years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on DC related hiring and broad knowledge of the 'build' world
- Proven experience leading and developing recruiting teams, with the ability to operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on contributor.
- Track record of hiring senior, specialized, and leadership talent, including director and executive-level roles.
- Experience supporting hiring in data centers and specifically roles that exist in the acquisition and build phases (site identification & acquisition through to full commissioning)
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in high-growth environments, scaling hiring processes and delivery to meet evolving business needs.
- Expertise in sourcing and talent research, with familiarity across platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and other modern sourcing tools.
- Experience working with ATS platforms (e.g., Greenhouse) and improving recruiting workflows and systems.
- Data-driven approach, with experience using recruiting analytics to improve performance and inform decision-making.
- Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders, with the ability to influence hiring decisions and challenge constructively.
- Strong negotiation and closing skills in competitive US talent markets.
- Familiarity with US hiring practices, compensation frameworks, and compliance requirements.
Nice to Have:- Experience scaling recruiting in high-volume or rapidly growing organizations.
- Exposure to global or international hiring environments and collaboration across regions.
- Experience improving recruiting operations through automation, tooling, or process optimization.
- Passion for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within hiring.
- 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 US compensation package (base + equity), with regular performance reviews.
- Opportunity to help build one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies from the ground up.
- High autonomy and ownership in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
- Flexible, human-first approach to work—designed to support performance and life outside of work.
- Equal Opportunities Statement:
- We strongly encourage applications from people of color, 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.
