Data Infrastructure Operations Manager II (Starlink)Active$190K

The opportunity

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

What you'll do

  • Negotiate creative, flexible, and commercially effective deals with key suppliers and partners.

  • Align sourcing strategy with engineering, quality, and performance requirements across priority areas.

  • Track deal status, approvals, and execution risks while driving suppliers toward timely and reliable delivery.

  • Continuously improve, standardize, and scale sourcing processes, workflows, tools, and planning systems.

  • Build a strong pipeline of exclusive and proprietary enterprise datasets.

  • Provide valuable inputs on upcoming orders based on supplier capacity, quality, and pricing.

What they're looking for

  • Maintain rigorous spend discipline, committing budget only to datasets that: meaningfully improve model performance.
  • Set target pricing, analyze supplier spend and trends, and develop metrics: for quality, delivery, and performance.
  • Manage clear, proactive communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
  • + years of experience and a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience: working in one or more of the following fields: Hardware or product management