VP, Corporate Strategy, Transaction Advisory

Nscale

4d•$280,000 - $500,000•Remote

About The Position

Nscale is seeking a VP, Corporate Strategy, Transaction Advisory to lead the evaluation of strategic capital raises, infrastructure investments, M&A opportunities, financing transactions, and large-scale technology programs before major capital decisions are made. This senior, high-impact role sits at the intersection of technical diligence, infrastructure engineering, investment strategy, and commercial evaluation. The VP will act as a trusted executive advisor across various teams, providing independent judgment on the technical feasibility, commercial soundness, operational resilience, and capital readiness of complex AI infrastructure programs. The role will shape how Nscale assesses execution risk, downside protection, revenue assurance, SLA feasibility, and operational readiness for critical growth initiatives. The VP will establish diligence standards, review mechanisms, and executive decision frameworks to enable Nscale to make well-grounded, risk-aware decisions on infrastructure investments.

Requirements

12+ years of experience across technical consulting, transaction advisory, infrastructure strategy, engineering advisory, technical diligence, corporate strategy, investment diligence, or related fields.
Significant experience leading complex technical and commercial diligence work tied to investments, financings, M&A, infrastructure deployments, or large-scale technology programs.
Strong understanding of data center infrastructure, GPU clusters, AI compute environments, high-performance computing, and cloud or hybrid infrastructure.
Strong understanding of networking and interconnect architecture, resiliency and redundancy models, operational performance metrics, and SLA design.
Proven ability to evaluate technical feasibility alongside commercial, financial, legal, and investment implications.
Experience advising senior executives, investors, boards, investment committees, or financing stakeholders on technical risk, execution readiness, and strategic trade-offs.
Ability to challenge engineering assumptions constructively, independently validate deployment claims, and identify risks that may not be visible in standard program plans.
Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to turn technical complexity into clear strategic insight, decision options, and recommended actions.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience operating across infrastructure, engineering, finance, legal, investment, commercial, and operations teams.
High ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to bring structure, pace, and clarity to ambiguous, high-stakes decisions.
Background from a leading technical consulting firm, engineering advisory firm, hyperscaler, infrastructure operator, investor, corporate strategy team, or transaction advisory environment strongly preferred.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI infrastructure, GPU cloud, hyperscale data center deployments, high-performance compute, or large-scale network architecture.
Experience supporting capital raises, project finance, structured financing, infrastructure investment, or investor diligence processes.
Exposure to M&A, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or major customer commitments in cloud, data center, telecoms, energy, or infrastructure-heavy technology environments.
Experience building diligence playbooks, investment committee materials, executive governance processes, or technical risk frameworks.
Prior experience operating in a high-growth, founder-led, or venture-backed technology company.

Responsibilities

Lead the transaction advisory and technical diligence agenda across strategic investments, M&A activity, capital raises, infrastructure deployments, financing transactions, and major customer or partner programs.
Serve as the senior technical-commercial advisor to executive leadership, investors, financing stakeholders, and cross-functional deal teams on infrastructure feasibility, execution risk, and capital readiness.
Assess deployment programs across data center design and architecture, GPU infrastructure and cluster design, network architecture, interconnect strategy, capacity planning, resiliency, redundancy, and operating model readiness.
Evaluate power, cooling, supply chain, procurement, implementation schedules, scalability, failover models, and operational dependencies across complex infrastructure programs.
Validate whether infrastructure and engineering designs can realistically achieve contracted SLAs, utilization targets, revenue assumptions, performance commitments, and delivery milestones.
Quantify technical risk exposure, downside protection scenarios, recovery paths, operational failure modes, and execution bottlenecks tied to investment structures and commercial commitments.
Challenge engineering assumptions, independently validate deployment claims, and bring disciplined scrutiny to technical plans before capital is deployed.
Partner with finance, legal, infrastructure, engineering, operations, commercial, and investment stakeholders to connect technical findings to valuation, risk allocation, financing terms, customer commitments, and strategic decision-making.
Translate highly technical diligence findings into clear executive-level recommendations, board-ready materials, investment committee inputs, and actionable risk mitigation plans.
Build and continuously improve diligence frameworks, technical review methodologies, risk assessment standards, and governance mechanisms across the organization.
Support broader corporate strategy initiatives involving AI infrastructure, high-performance compute, cloud, networking, capital allocation, and large-scale technical deployments.
Represent a high bar for judgment, rigor, and accountability in how Nscale evaluates opportunities, commits capital, and scales infrastructure globally.