Sourcing Manager, Site Readiness

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and seeks a hands-on Supply Chain/Procurement lead for new sites in the United States. You will own sourcing for site services, power, water, and facilities, and you will develop a repeatable playbook to accelerate procurement across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes negotiating regional agreements, coordinating timelines with construction, and ensuring a smooth readiness process so new sites come online quickly and reliably.

Qualifications

• Candidates have sourced site services or indirect categories for multi-site industrial operations.
• They have stood up procurement for a greenfield site and know what gets forgotten.
• They build playbooks that speed second-site deployment.
• They negotiate rate cards that hold across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing for all services a new site needs to go live, including site services and facilities support.
• Build the site readiness sourcing playbook to procure the full service stack in weeks.
• Negotiate regional and multi-site agreements that sites inherit on day one.
• Coordinate need-by dates with construction and operations to avoid service gaps.

Skills

Site sourcing

Procurement

Greenfield project

Playbook development

Rate cards negotiation

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Supply Chain Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Supply compute at a scale of 10s to 100s of GWs, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.
• Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone. Our modular build redefines speed in this industry, and it lives or dies on supply chain. Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.
• Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had, and turn that foresight into a structural edge.

Role Scope

• Own sourcing for everything a new site needs to go live: site services, temporary power and water, security, waste, and facilities support.
• Build the site readiness sourcing playbook so each new site procures its full service stack in weeks, not months.
• Negotiate regional and multi-site agreements that new sites inherit on day one.
• Coordinate need-by dates with construction and operations so no service gap ever idles a site.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly,
• You’ve sourced site services or indirect categories for multi-site industrial operations.
• You’ve stood up procurement for a greenfield site and know every category that gets forgotten.
• You build playbooks that make the second site faster than the first.
• You negotiate rate cards that hold across geographies.
• Bonus: Data center or construction site services. Utility coordination. Security services contracting. Facilities management agreements.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.