Strategic Supply Chain Manager – AI Infrastructure

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 205 000 - 335 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization seeks a Supply Chain Manager to lead strategic execution across sourcing, supplier operations, manufacturing quality, and infrastructure delivery for OpenAI's AI infrastructure portfolio in San Francisco.

You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, drive supplier strategy, manufacturing readiness, production planning, quality performance, and operational execution across the hardware lifecycle, partnering with engineering, finance, and deployment teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years leading technical supply chain, sourcing, manufacturing operations, or infrastructure delivery.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience developing supplier strategies for complex hardware or infrastructure products.
• Strong executive communication and cross-functional leadership experience.
• Experience leading global supplier relationships and contract execution.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop teams responsible for Strategic Sourcing, Manufacturing Quality Engineering, and Supply Chain Program Management.
• Own supplier strategy across compute, networking, storage, and infrastructure hardware.
• Establish long-term sourcing strategies that improve resilience, scalability, cost, and supplier performance.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering to ensure supply chain strategies align with future hardware roadmaps and product introductions.
• Drive manufacturing readiness, supplier quality, production ramp planning, and operational readiness across multiple hardware programs.
• Build executive operating reviews tracking supplier performance, manufacturing readiness, deployment risk, quality metrics, and supply continuity.
• Lead supplier executive relationships, contract execution, and operational governance with key manufacturing partners.
• Partner with Finance, Capacity Planning, Infrastructure Delivery, and Hardware Operations to align hardware availability with deployment schedules.
• Develop scalable operational processes supporting rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple regions.
• Drive continuous improvement across sourcing operations, manufacturing quality, supplier performance, and infrastructure delivery execution.

Connaissances

Strategic sourcing

Manufacturing quality

Program management

Supplier management

Executive communication

Contract execution

Cross-functional leadership

Global supplier relationships

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Outils

ODM/JDM manufacturing models

Description du poste

OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization seeks a Supply Chain Manager to lead strategic execution across sourcing, supplier operations, manufacturing quality, and infrastructure delivery for OpenAI's AI infrastructure portfolio in San Francisco.

You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, drive supplier strategy, manufacturing readiness, production planning, quality performance, and operational execution across the hardware lifecycle, partnering with engineering, finance, and deployment teams.