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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.

At Nscale, our Legal & Compliance team plays a critical role in driving business success by partnering with stakeholders to anticipate regulatory change, operationalize compliance requirements, and deliver solutions that protect the company while enabling commercial opportunities, to scale confidently, sustainably, and with integrity.

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 are seeking a Director, Securities Compliance to help strengthen and mature Nscale's securities and ethics compliance capability as the company scales. Reporting to the VP, Compliance & Ethics, US, you will be our dedicated subject-matter specialist for securities compliance, MNPI governance, conflicts of interest, personal-account dealing, and related controls. This dedicated specialist role within the global compliance function combines strong technical judgment with hands-on operational delivery. You will design pragmatic, defensible processes and run them in practice across Legal, Finance, Tax, Rewards, Equity Administration, Company Secretariat, and senior business leadership.

You will own the design, operation, and day-to-day execution of the securities and dealing compliance program as the resident subject-matter expert, exercising technical judgment independently and escalating policy, enterprise, and higher-risk matters to the VP and SVP of global Compliance and Ethics. You will operate in an environment without established precedent, where you will need to design the playbook rather than apply an existing one. Certain adjacent activities are owned elsewhere and this role supports rather than owns them.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate Nscale's securities and dealing compliance framework: policies, MNPI and conflicts controls, restricted-information controls, and personal-account dealing controls
• Be the subject-matter expert, personally building, running, and continuously improving the clearance, approval, and reporting processes and approvals to employees, executives, and the business, escalating novel or higher-risk matters to stakeholders. 
• Run intake, assessment, approvals, logging, follow-up, and record retention for the program's clearance and control processes.
• Maintain information controls. Build and maintain restricted-information and conflicts registers, including updates, access controls, and supporting documentation.
• Own the control evidence. Maintain complete and accurate records, logs, approvals, and control evidence in line with governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Design and run attestations, communications, and periodic certifications for relevant populations.
• Develop and deliver effective training for relevant populations and control owners.
• Lead issue identification, escalation, and remediation for securities and dealing control matters.
• Report on the program, producing reporting and metrics on program activity, exceptions, and key control indicators.
• Support assurance and response to regulatory, audit, and internal review requests, ensuring documentation is complete, accurate, and accessible.
• Embed a controls culture, championing disciplined execution, responsiveness, and attention to detail across the program.

• At least 8 years of deep, demonstrable expertise as n in-house compliance professional at an operating company, focused on securities and dealing compliance, ideally with cross-border exposure.
• Demonstrated experience designing a program from the ground up and personally operating it is required - not solely providing oversight or review of a program run by others.
• Strong technical command of MNPI and conflicts controls, clearance and approval processes, restricted-information controls, and personal-account dealing.
• Hands-on track record building and personally operating compliance processes and controls; comfortable being both the designer and the operator in a fast-scaling environment.
• Strong process and program-management skills, with the ability to operate with precision, pace, and sound judgment.
• Proven ability to manage highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion, and strong stakeholder skills with the credibility to advise and constructively challenge executives across Compliance, Legal, Finance, Tax, HR/Reward, Equity Administration, and Company Secretariat.
• Prefer candidates with experience supporting a securities compliance program and familiarity with relevant securities / market-abuse regimes and Hyperscaler, AI lab, or technology in-house experience, plus relevant professional certification or legal qualification.