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 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.
About the Role
We are hiring a Director, AI Demand Planning & Commercial Integration to lead the translation of commercial pipeline signals into infrastructure-ready execution plans.
This role sits at the critical intersection of Sales, Finance, Product Engineering, and Supply Chain — ensuring that customer contracts, AI workload configurations, and revenue forecasts are converted into accurate, actionable demand plans.
You will own the global demand forecast across core infrastructure components and ensure alignment between commercial growth and infrastructure deployment capacity. This is a highly strategic and operational role that directly impacts capital allocation, GPU reservation strategy, and infrastructure scaling decisions.
What you'll be doing
Demand Forecast Ownership
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Own the global demand forecast across:
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Maintain a rolling 18–24 month demand forecast.
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Model demand volatility, ramp curves, and burst scenarios across customer segments.
Commercial & Infrastructure Integration
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Translate commercial pipeline, customer contracts, and AI cluster configurations into BOM-level demand signals.
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Integrate revenue forecasts with infrastructure capacity planning to ensure deployment readiness.
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Align demand planning outputs with supply chain procurement and build strategies.
Cross-Functional Leadership
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Lead monthly demand reviews with commercial leadership.
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Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Product Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to ensure forecast alignment.
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Surface risks and trade-offs related to infrastructure lead times, capital allocation, and GPU availability.
Capital Planning & Strategy
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Support capital planning processes through data-driven infrastructure forecasts.
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Contribute to GPU reservation and long-lead component strategy.
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Ensure deployment timing aligns with contractual and revenue commitments.
KPIs
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Forecast bias and accuracy
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Alignment between revenue forecast and infrastructure deployment
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Responsiveness to demand shifts
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Demand plan stability
About You
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8+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain strategy, commercial operations, or infrastructure capacity planning.
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Experience operating in high-growth technology or infrastructure-heavy environments (AI, cloud, hardware, or similar preferred).
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Strong understanding of infrastructure components including compute, networking, racks, and power systems.
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Proven ability to translate commercial signals into operational and financial plans.
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Strong financial acumen with experience integrating revenue forecasts into capacity and capital planning.
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Advanced analytical skills with experience modeling demand volatility and scenario planning.
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Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills and executive communication capability.
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Comfortable operating in ambiguity while building scalable planning frameworks from the ground up.
What we can offer you
At 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.
Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀
Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. ✨
Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
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