Sr. Director, Special Projects

About the role: You lead the strategic "special forces" of the GTM organization. As Nscale scales hyper-rapidly across continents, we will inevitably encounter complex, ambiguous, and unstructured opportunities that do not fit neatly into existing department charters. You and your team are deployed by GTM leadership to bring immediate order to this ambiguity. This could range from modeling the economics of a sudden geographic expansion, structuring a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership, or triaging a critical operational bottleneck in the global revenue machine. You are a player-coach who will architect rigorous solutions, drive intense cross-functional alignment, manage your SWAT team, and execute V1 solutions before handing stable processes back to the core business. Responsibilities: • Agile Problem Solving & Firefighting: Direct and lead high-priority, deeply urgent initiatives on behalf of GTM leadership. You act as a high-level strategic partner, a trusted force multiplier, and a ruthless executor all at once. • Team Leadership & Deployment: Manage and deploy your team (including the Head of Special Projects) to pilot highly experimental Go-To-Market motions, innovative consumption-based pricing models, or unconventional channel strategies. • Executive Strategy Architecture: Oversee the production of rapid, highly rigorous quantitative analyses and executive-level presentation materials to support critical, high-stakes decisions at the Board and C-suite level. • Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive complex projects that require deep alignment between Sales, Engineering, Finance, and Legal. You will utilize intense influence and high EQ to keep disparate teams moving toward a single goal without bruising egos. • Operational Optimization: Act as an internal consulting leader. Identify major friction points across the global revenue machine, architect rapid process improvements, and exit gracefully once stability is achieved. You may be a good fit if you have: • 8+ years of highly rigorous experience in top-tier management consulting (MBB preferred), corporate strategy, strategic finance, or a BizOps leadership role at a hyper-growth tech startup. • Exceptional analytical rigor and structural thinking. You have a proven superpower for breaking down massive, sprawling, highly ambiguous problems into distinct, solvable, and measurable components. • Extremely high EQ and political agility. You must lead complex cross-functional teams largely through influence, effectively aligning busy executives and stubborn engineers. • A player-coach mentality with zero ego. You care entirely about the impact of the solution, not who gets the credit, and you are comfortable doing the strategic modeling yourself when the timeline is tight. • High agency and a deep comfort with unstructured environments where the rules have not yet been written. The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation. Salary Range $220,000—$380,000 USD For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.