Senior Manager, US Tax Strategy and Planning

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're hiring a Senior Manager, US Tax Strategy and Planning to drive US tax planning and advice for Nscale's AI data center infrastructure work. Based in New York City on a hybrid arrangement, you'll report to the US Tax Director in London and work with corporate development, legal, construction, engineering, finance and external advisors.

You'll tackle tax questions arising from live contracts, construction projects, financings and transactions, often before every fact is settled. Your analysis will help non-tax decision-makers act quickly. This is a planning and advisory role, not a return-preparation role: external providers handle US federal and state filings, while you'll inform and review the positions those filings reflect.

What you'll be doing

Transactions and contracts

• Advise on tax structuring for acquisitions, reorganizations, cross-border transactions, partnerships, joint ventures and capital markets work.
• Lead tax execution from diligence and step plans through transaction agreement review and post-closing integration with corporate development, legal and external counsel.
• Analyze Section 382, lease-versus-service characterization of customer contracts and anti-conduit questions on intercompany lending.
• Review commercial contracts for sourcing, withholding, transaction tax and contracting-entity consequences, providing actionable mark-ups to deal teams.

Infrastructure and cross-border planning

• Work with construction and engineering teams on cost segregation and fixed asset classification for data center build-outs.
• Lead or co-own negotiated sales and use tax and property tax incentives, federal energy tax credits and other identified opportunities.
• Build and pressure-test models with FP&A and treasury for cost recovery, material book-tax differences and cash tax forecasts.
• Coordinate with global tax and finance teams on transfer pricing, intercompany arrangements, BEAT, withholding and funding structures.

Advice, reporting and advisors

• Explain tax decisions in plain English to non-tax colleagues and executives, including through board slides, memos and auditor position papers.
• Support the compliance and reporting team on ASC 740, tax positions arising from planning, state and local tax matters, incentives and financial statement disclosures without owning the filings.
• Scope work with external advisors, review fees and monitor spend against budget.

About You

• 10+ years of progressive experience in US federal and state taxation; a mix of Big 4 and in-house corporate experience is welcome.
• A CPA or equivalent US professional qualification; an advanced tax degree (JD, LL.M. or MST) is helpful but not required.
• Strong US corporate and partnership tax knowledge across several areas such as Subchapter K, consolidated returns, cost recovery, interest limitations, NOL and ownership-change analysis, and inbound and outbound international provisions.
• Technical expertise in corporate tax, international tax provisions (including BEAT, PFIC and CFC), modeling and cross-border structuring.
• Experience managing complex tax projects and explaining technical outcomes to non-tax executives in clear, practical terms.
• Judgment when facts are incomplete, timelines are short and commercial pressures compete; you can distinguish a real risk from a theoretical one.
• Willingness to work with a UK-headquartered group, including some early-morning overlap with colleagues in the UK.
• Experience in data centers, energy, infrastructure, real estate or another capital-intensive sector is helpful, as is work on state and local incentives, energy tax credits, IPO readiness or building an early-stage tax team.

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.