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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 hiring a Manager, Executive Compensation to help build and scale Nscale's executive compensation and equity programs as the company transitions to a public company and expands rapidly across global markets.

This role sits within the People team as part of the Reward function and reports to the Director of Equity & Executive Compensation. You'll work closely with partners across Finance, Legal, People, stock administration, external compensation consultants, outside counsel, and senior business stakeholders to support both executive reward strategy and broader equity program design.

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape programs at a pivotal stage of growth. Your work will help ensure Nscale's executive and equity compensation approach is market-informed, operationally sound, and aligned with governance standards, regulatory requirements, and shareholder expectations.

Executive Compensation Design and Governance

• Support the design and ongoing management of executive compensation programs, including base salary, short-term incentives, and long-term incentive structures for senior leadership.
• Own the executive and equity compensation benchmarking process using Radford and peer group analysis, translating market data into defensible pay recommendations for review by leadership.
• Build and maintain compensation tally sheets, performance-to-pay models, and total reward analyses for the executive population.
• Support the Director of Equity & Executive Compensation in preparing materials for the Compensation Committee, including meeting decks, pre-reads, and follow-up actions across an annual cadence.
• Partner with external compensation consultants and outside counsel to ensure program design is aligned to market best practices, institutional governance standards, and stakeholder expectations.

Governance, Disclosure, and Regulatory Compliance

• Support the preparation of annual executive compensation reporting, disclosures, and governance statements in alignment with international best practices.
• Contribute to the Directors Remuneration Report and related frameworks in compliance with UK and international corporate governance expectations.
• Maintain current knowledge of global compensation disclosure trends and governance guidelines, flagging market developments that may impact program design or reporting.

Equity Program Design

• Support the strategic design and iteration of Nscale's global equity programs.
• Lead the development of equity grant guidelines, eligibility frameworks, and vesting structures for the broad-based employee population, working within the overall program direction set by leadership.
• Own the annual equity refresh cycle, including budget modeling, grant recommendations, and equity target-setting across all levels and geographies.
• Partner with the broader Compensation team on equity design for the broad-based population, ensuring alignment and consistency between executive and employee programs.
• Work with equity administration on program implementation, ensuring reward design decisions are operationally executable.

Analytical Modeling and Insights

• Build and maintain financial models to support equity program design, compensation scenario planning, and executive pay decisions.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to support executive hiring, offer construction, retention strategies, and leadership transition scenarios.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a subject matter expert to People Partners, Finance, Legal, and senior business stakeholders on executive compensation and equity matters.
• Translate complex compensation and equity data into clear, actionable guidance for non-technical audiences including senior leaders.
• Support sensitive executive compensation conversations and provide analytical input into executive-level reward decisions.

• Significant experience working specifically in executive compensation and equity design, within a high-growth tech or complex multinational environment.
• Direct experience with US and or UK corporate governance requirements and executive remuneration reporting is a requirement. 
• Direct, hands-on experience working within a sophisticated, highly governed corporate environment, including exposure to institutional investor guidelines and Compensation Committee processes.
• Proven experience supporting complex reward disclosures, executive compensation tables, and pay-versus-performance analysis.
• Deep technical knowledge of executive pay program design, including long-term incentive (LTI) mechanics, annual incentive design, and equity program structures (including share/unit transitions).
• Strong benchmarking expertise using Radford or equivalent executive compensation surveys.
• Experience designing or managing broad-based equity programs, including annual refresh cycles and equity target-setting.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen with advanced Excel and modeling capability.
• Confident operating as a senior individual contributor, able to own complex workstreams independently and influence without direct authority.
• Comfortable working at pace in an ambiguous, fast-evolving environment and building programs from scratch.
• High attention to detail, strong governance mindset, and excellent stakeholder management skills.

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 compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.

Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies - your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed.

Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy - always with our full support.

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.

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, 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.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.