Chief of Staff, AI Infrastructure

Nscale•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Chief of Staff to the President of AI Infrastructure serves as a strategic and execution-focused partner, helping drive the company’s most critical infrastructure priorities. The role works directly with the President and across Data Center Development, Construction, Data Center Operations, Power and Energy, Supply Chain, Hardware and Systems Engineering, and Capacity Planning. The position brings structure to planning, capacity forecasting, operating cadences, and cross-functional execution, while advising on strategic decisions. It helps improve focus, alignment, and operational excellence so the business can bring capacity online faster, improve delivery predictability, and build scalable processes for global expansion. Responsibilities span strategic planning and business management, infrastructure operations and performance management, cross-functional leadership, executive communications, and special projects. The role leads high-impact initiatives, monitors business performance, supports executive decision-making, and communicates strategic priorities across the organization.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, management consulting, investment banking, private equity, infrastructure development, or high-growth cloud and infrastructure companies.
Experience supporting executive leadership in a senior Chief of Staff, Business Operations, Strategy, or similar role.
Strong understanding of how large-scale compute infrastructure is planned, financed, built, and operated, from site and power through to deployed capacity.
Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills, including capex planning and project economics.
Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication abilities at the senior leadership level.
Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously across geographically distributed teams.
Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders and driving outcomes without direct authority.
Senior executive presence, strong business maturity, and a bias for action in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience in AI infrastructure, hyperscale cloud, data center development, energy, or telecommunications.
Familiarity with capacity planning, power procurement, GPU and hardware supply chains, construction programs, and data center metrics such as PUE, uptime, and utilization.

Responsibilities

Partner with the President to define and execute annual and quarterly AI infrastructure strategies.
Drive capacity planning, site pipeline strategy, build-out roadmaps, and organizational scaling initiatives aligned with customer demand.
Develop executive-level presentations, board materials, business reviews, and strategic recommendations covering capacity, capital deployment, and delivery performance.
Monitor key business metrics to identify opportunities to improve delivery speed, utilization, cost efficiency, and operational reliability.
Advise the President on strategic decisions involving site selection, power procurement, hardware roadmaps, and major vendor partnerships.
Establish operating rhythms, including quarterly business reviews, capacity and deployment reviews, project gate reviews, and leadership meetings.
Track performance against capacity delivered, deployment schedules, capex budgets, uptime, utilization, and safety goals.
Collaborate with Finance, Business Operations, and Capacity Planning to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting, and KPI visibility across sites and programs.
Drive accountability across functional and site leaders through structured follow-up and execution management.
Lead high-impact initiatives spanning Data Center Development, Construction, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, and Sales.
Coordinate strategic projects such as new site launches, power and energy agreements, GPU and hardware supply programs, and infrastructure transformation efforts.
Remove organizational obstacles that slow execution or create misalignment between infrastructure teams and the wider business.
Align stakeholders around priorities, ownership, risk, and next steps to accelerate decision-making.
Prepare internal and external communications on behalf of the President.
Develop leadership updates, board reports, investor materials, and company-wide presentations on infrastructure strategy and progress.
Ensure strategic priorities are clearly communicated throughout the AI infrastructure organization.
Lead mission-critical initiatives identified by the President and executive team.
Conduct market analysis, competitive intelligence, and business case development for new sites, partnerships, technologies, and operational improvements.