Director, People Performance & Measurement

Location: San Francisco or Seattle, United States

Salary: $160,000–$280,000 USD base salary per year, with potential bonus, equity, and/or commission eligibility.

Company

Nscale provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers, supporting AI development, cost management, innovation, and environmental responsibility.

What you will do

• Build and embed the company-wide performance and feedback culture, including operating cadence, tooling, systems, and manager adoption.
• Own requirements for the performance technology platform and work directly with engineering.
• Drive goal cascades, functional performance metrics, reporting, and the connection between performance ratings and rewards.
• Partner with Sales, Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, and Cloud/Software functions to pressure-test measurable targets for different operating contexts.
• Run the center of expertise for performance practices and co-lead year-end calibration with People Partners.
• During the first six to nine months, establish functional metrics and goal cascades, launch rating-to-reward mechanics, and run the first quarterly cycle and year-end calibration.

Requirements

• Experience building a company-wide performance or measurement system spanning both team and individual performance in a large or fast-scaling organization.
• Experience presenting performance systems to senior leadership and operating effectively at that level.
• Experience working across different business contexts, including sales, data centers, and engineering.
• Close partnership experience with compensation and a strong understanding of how performance mechanics connect to pay decisions.
• Hands-on operator who runs performance mechanisms rather than delegating their core execution.
• Based in San Francisco or Seattle, United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance systems are designed around shared goals, visibility, accountability, reduced friction, and organizational clarity.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be available.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave may be available.
• Retirement plan participation may be available.

Hiring process

• Add a note to the end of the resume identifying one system built that connected a measure to a real outcome.
• Include one sentence explaining how the effectiveness of that system was determined.