Senior Director, PMO - Data Center Infrastructure

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 Nscale r, 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

The Senior Director, PMO - Data Center Infrastructure will lead the Program Management Office responsible for enabling predictable, coordinated, and transparent delivery across the data center infrastructure portfolio. This role serves as a critical connective function across internal teams, ensuring stakeholders are aligned on priorities, dependencies, risks, decisions, and execution plans required to deliver data center capacity successfully.

This leader will partner closely with Data Center Development, Design & Construction, Engineering, Power & Utilities, Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Commercial, Security, Network, Operations, Project Controls, and Executive Leadership to create a single operating rhythm across complex infrastructure programs. The role is accountable for driving internal alignment, facilitating decision-making, removing blockers, and ensuring teams are coordinated from planning through operational readiness.

The ideal candidate has deep experience leading PMO or strategic program functions in data center infrastructure, cloud, AI, colocation, construction, energy, or mission-critical environments. They should be highly effective at influencing without authority, aligning senior stakeholders, translating complexity into clear decisions, and ensuring disciplined execution of established delivery, governance, and controls standards.
What You'll be Doing

Internal Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment
- Act as the central coordination and alignment leader across internal teams involved in data center infrastructure delivery.
- Build trusted partnerships with functional leaders across Development, Engineering, Construction, Power, Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Network, Operations, Security, Project Controls, and Commercial teams.
- Establish clear communication channels, decision forums, escalation paths, and operating rhythms to keep stakeholders aligned across the full delivery lifecycle.
- Drive alignment on program priorities, delivery milestones, ownership, dependencies, risk mitigation plans, and executive decisions required to maintain momentum.
- Proactively identify areas of misalignment, ambiguity, or competing priorities and facilitate resolution with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Translate complex technical, commercial, operational, and financial inputs into clear, actionable plans and decision points for leadership.
PMO Leadership & Operating Model

- Lead the Data Center Infrastructure PMO, including governance structure, program cadence, stakeholder engagement model, executive reporting rhythm, and delivery assurance mechanisms.
- Execute established PMO and Project Controls standards across the data center infrastructure portfolio, ensuring consistent adoption by program teams.
- Drive adherence to defined processes for milestone tracking, risk review, decision management, change governance, dependency management, and issue resolution.
- Ensure the PMO operates as an enablement function that improves execution, transparency, and accountability across delivery teams.
- Establish clear ownership models, RACI frameworks, stag