Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure — Equity

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 226,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Data Center Infrastructure to design and lead sourcing strategies for critical infrastructure systems powering Industrial Compute campuses. You will negotiate strategic supplier agreements, manage relationships across engineering, construction, and external partners, and drive long-term commercial frameworks for rapid global deployment.

The role requires experience with hyperscale data centers and complex capital projects, with close

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Operations, Finance, or related field.
• 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience.
• Experience sourcing major infrastructure systems or large capital projects.
• Proven experience negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Strong supplier qualification, contract strategy, and governance.
• Experience partnering with engineering, construction, finance, legal, and operations.
• Excellent analytical, financial modeling, negotiation, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term sourcing strategies for data center infrastructure systems supporting Industrial Compute.
• Lead strategic supplier selection, RFx processes, commercial negotiations, and contract execution for major infrastructure programs.
• Build and maintain executive relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers, EPC firms, integrators, and infrastructure vendors.
• Partner with Infrastructure Delivery and Engineering to align sourcing strategies with project schedules, technical requirements, and deployment priorities.
• Collaborate with Capacity Planning to ensure supplier capacity aligns with long-term infrastructure roadmaps.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities across manufacturing capacity, execution quality, financial health, delivery performance, and operational maturity.
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks through supplier diversification, long-term agreements, alternative sourcing strategies, and capacity reservations.
• Monitor global market conditions, manufacturing trends, commodity impacts, geopolitical risks, and supplier ecosystems that may affect infrastructure delivery.
• Develop supplier scorecards and performance metrics across quality, cost, schedule, responsiveness, safety, and execution.
• Support executive sourcing decisions through financial analysis, market intelligence, scenario planning, and supplier benchmarking.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to structure scalable commercial agreements that support Industrial Compute's long-term infrastructure strategy.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Negotiation

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Data Center Infrastructure to design and lead sourcing strategies for critical infrastructure systems powering Industrial Compute campuses. You will negotiate strategic supplier agreements, manage relationships across engineering, construction, and external partners, and drive long-term commercial frameworks for rapid global deployment.

The role requires experience with hyperscale data centers and complex capital projects, with close