Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nscale is a GPU cloud company engineered for AI, providing high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprises. The Director, Finance Business Partner - Commercial will lead pricing execution and ensure economic integrity across Nscale’s US operations, translating business strategy into executable financial outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Own pricing execution for US commercial transactions
- Operate and maintain the US implementation of Nscale’s global pricing engine
- Ensure a single source of truth for pricing assumptions and cost stack inputs
- Apply and enforce margin guardrails and pricing governance
- Lead repricing mechanics (chip transitions, contractual uplifts, product / design evolution)
- Prevent model duplication and assumption fragmentation across stakeholders
- Lead economic feasibility analysis for US transactions, ensuring deals are viable, financeable, and contractually aligned
- Partner with Strategy on complex transactions and new monetisation models (e.g. token-based inference pricing), supplying the economic foundation for structuring
- Quantify funding and working capital requirements, assessing advance payment structures, and margin risk under different financing scenarios
- Support customer negotiations by articulating cost assumptions and economic rationale
- Ensure back-to-back alignment across customer, Colo, OEM, and financing arrangements
- Quantify SLA exposure and delay-related cost impacts to inform deployment prioritisation and capital allocation
- Translate infrastructure capacity inputs into commercial inventory availability
- Ensure pricing assumptions reflect GPU allocation realities and infrastructure constraints
- Partner with AI Capacity Planning to align deployment timing with revenue expectations
- Provide economic drivers supporting integrated business planning and capital efficiency
- Provide commercial economic drivers into FP&A forecasting and planning
- Align pipeline economics with revenue, margin, and capital planning expectations
- Act as the US Finance authority for deal economics and pricing consistency
- Support audit, governance, and commercial commitment oversight
Skills
- 6-10+ years in Commercial Finance, Infrastructure Finance, or Strategic Finance within capital-intensive environments
- Deep understanding of unit economics, cost stacks, and deal pricing mechanics
- Experience supporting complex, structured commercial transactions
- Strong modelling capability combined with commercial judgment
- Ability to operate confidently with senior commercial, strategy, and infrastructure leaders
- Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and are comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution as the business evolves
- Experience in AI, cloud, hardware, or GPU-based infrastructure
Benefits
- Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months.
- 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.
- 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.
- Join our thriving remote-first team.
- Geography is no barrier to impact or connection.
- We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work.
Company Overview
Nscale builds AI data centers and provides GPU cloud infrastructure that companies use to train, run, and scale large AI models. It was founded in 2024, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.nscale.com.