Senior Legal Recruiter (Contract, US)

Nscale • New York, NY

11d

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter with deep expertise in Legal recruitment across the US. This is a hands-on role where you will personally run high-impact searches, influence hiring decisions with data and market insight, and help build a world-class hiring bar for Corporate functions. Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. We enable 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. 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.

Requirements

• Deep experience of Legal hiring
• Proven track record recruiting across a range of seniorities, including senior specialist and leadership roles.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Demonstrated sourcing capability (market mapping, outreach strategy, talent research) and comfort operating in competitive markets.
• High bar for quality and process where structured interviewing, evidence-based decisioning and strong candidate experience are paramount
• Experience recruiting in high-growth tech, infrastructure, or regulated environments.
• Familiarity hiring across UK/EU and navigating location, compliance, and compensation complexity.
• Comfort partnering on compensation/leveling discussions and advising on market benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Own hiring delivery for Legal roles
• Run full-cycle recruiting from intake, calibration, sourcing strategy, assessment design, interview process, offer management and closing.
• Bring market intelligence on talent - including compensation trends, competitor mapping and realistic time-to-fill expectations
• Develop pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill profiles across corporate teams
• Improve structured interviewing and selection quality (clear competencies, calibrated scorecards, consistent debriefs).
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience - timely, transparent and high-touch where needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed