About the role
Please note this role will require regular travel to sites across EMEA, including the Nordics, and can be based from either the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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
The Director of LV/Fiber Deployment leads the planning, execution, and operational handoff of low-voltage and fiber infrastructure deployments across data center, edge, and network facilities. This leader ensures deployments are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to defined quality and reliability standards.
The role owns the end-to-end deployment lifecycle: design coordination, vendor strategy, material readiness, field execution, commissioning support, documentation, and turnover to operations.
What You’ll be Doing
- Lead regional or global deployment programs for structured cabling, fiber backbone, low-voltage systems, and related physical infrastructure.
- Build and lead a high-performing team of deployment managers, program managers, field engineers, and vendor partners.
- Own deployment planning, schedules, resource models, budgets, forecasts, and executive reporting.
- Partner with design, construction, network engineering, data center operations, supply chain, security, and commissioning teams to deliver production-ready infrastructure.
- Establish standardized deployment playbooks, quality controls, acceptance criteria, and turnover processes.
- Manage installation partners and vendors, including selection, performance management, capacity planning, safety, quality, and commercial accountability.
- Drive deployment readiness by ensuring materials, labor, site access, permits, test equipment, and documentation are available ahead of execution.
- Oversee fiber testing, labeling, documentation, as-built records, cable management, and remediation of quality issues.
- Lead complex retrofits and live-site deployments while protecting customer availability, safety, and operational continuity.
- Define and improve deployment KPIs, including on-time delivery, first-pass quality, cost per deployment, defect rates, safety performance, and time-to-service.
- Identify deployment risks early, remove execution blockers, and lead escalation paths across internal and external stakeholders.
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years of experience in physical infrastructure deployment, data centers, telecommunications, network construction, or large-scale critical environments.
- 5+ years leading multi-site teams, contractors, vendors, or complex deployment programs.
- Deep knowledge of structured cabling, fiber-optic infrastructure, low-voltage systems, testing and certification practices, and cable-management standards.
- Experience delivering infrastructure in data centers, telecom networks, industrial facilities, or other mission-critical environments.
- Demonstrated success managing large vendor workforces, budgets, schedules, and quality programs.
- Strong understanding of construction, commissioning, change control, site readiness, and operational handoff.
- Proven ability to lead safely in live production environments and balance speed, quality, cost, and availability.
- Excellent executive communication, cross-functional leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/GPU infrastructure, or high-density data center deployments.
- Experience with fiber design, OTDR testing, splice management, MPO/MTP systems, and structured-cabling standards.
- Familiarity with BICSI, TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC, and applicable local codes and safety requirements.
- Experience with deployment tooling, asset tracking, work-order systems, and dashboard-driven operational management.
- Relevant certifications such as RCDD, CFOT, PMP, or Lean/Six Sigma.
Success Measures
- Safe, on-time, and on-budget deployment delivery
- Fiber and low-voltage installation quality and first-pass acceptance rates
- Reduction in deployment defects, rework, and time to operational handoff
- Vendor capacity, productivity, and performance
- Deployment readiness and schedule predictability
- Stakeholder satisfaction across construction, engineering, network, and operations teams
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 package (base + bonus + equity) with reviews every 12 months. 🚀
- Join the fastest-growing tech startup — your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI.
- Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.
- Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver.
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