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Director, Legal - ESG

Nscale
CompanyNscale
CategoryLegal & Compliance
LocationLondon
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelDirector
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted3 Jul 2026
Last verified12 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (greenhouse)
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Description
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 Nscale is hiring a Director, Legal - ESG to build the legal backbone of its ESG framework and own the legal and regulatory architecture that supports credible, audit-ready sustainability claims. This role sits within Legal & Compliance and operates at the centre of a co-owned ESG framework, ensuring that what Nscale says publicly about its environmental, social and governance performance is defensible against underlying data and applicable regulatory standards. You’ll work closely with Corporate Affairs for joint disclosure sign-off and external mandate, the ESG Programme Office for dotted-line coordination, the CFO and Finance reporting teams, Global HSEQ, and operational data owners across Data Centres/Operations, People, and Procurement/Supply Chain. You’ll have a significant impact on how Nscale scales responsibly, creating the policy suite, regulatory mapping, disclosure controls, legal review process, data governance expectations and substantiation standards needed to support trusted ESG communications across external stakeholder groups. What you'll be doing Build ESG legal and disclosure architecture Own Legal’s ESG regulatory and disclosure-control architecture across applicable frameworks, including SEC climate disclosure rules, EU CSRD, UK SDR, SECR, GRI, SASB and other relevant standards. Translate regulatory requirements into practical controls, reporting requirements and governance processes. Establish the policy suite, regulatory map, disclosure review process and evidence standards needed for a scalable ESG legal framework. Build a defensible framework that can operate effectively as Nscale grows. Strengthen ESG data governance and assurance readiness Establish ESG data governance expectations, including source data ownership, methodology documentation, evidence retention, audit trails and sign-off requirements. Ensure external claims are traceable to reliable underlying data. Lead Legal input into materiality, ESG risk and assurance readiness. Integrate ESG priorities, targets and disclosures into enterprise risk, internal audit and future external assurance processes. Review ESG claims and mitigate disclosure risk Provide substantive legal review of external ESG claims and disclosures, including sustainability reports, investor materials, customer and data-room materials, website content, press releases, public affairs messaging and other external communications. Mitigate greenwashing, inconsistent-claim and regulatory risk across ESG communications. Advise on substantiation standards and the boundaries of permissible external statements. Support a functioning ESG claims and disclosure sign-off process with Corporate Affairs and ESG stakeholders. Partner across the business on ESG governance Partner with Corporate Affairs, ESG Programme Office, Finance, HSEQ, Operations and Procurement to create a consistent ESG disclosure narrative and operating model. Advise on ESG legal risks material to Nscale’s business, including energy and grid impact, water use, carbon and renewable-energ