The opportunity
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement helps OpenAI secure the products, services, and partnerships that support our research, build our products, and grow our business. We work with teams across the company to make sound commercial decisions and move important work forward.
What you'll do
A focused roadmap: clear choices about what to build first, what to defer, and how progress will be measured.
Stronger delivery: capable leaders and teams, faster execution, less rework, and fewer unresolved ownership gaps.
AI adoption: sustained use of AI-enabled capabilities, with measurable gains: in quality, capacity, and user experience.
Commercial results: increased OpenAI adoption across the procurement industry and a measurable contribution to commercial growth, consistent with independent supplier selection and purchasing decisions.
Build and lead the organization. Hire and develop managers, coach: performance, and build succession and leadership depth. Decide how employees, contractors, delivery partners, and AI share the work. Hold leaders accountable for results, capacity, and team health.
Own sourcing enablement and delivery operations. Set service commitments and: quality standards with the Delivery and Contract Management leaders. Match support to deal complexity and risk, and use internal customer feedback to improve the service. Category and Sourcing leads retain ownership of their strategies and deals, including supplier selection, negotiations, and purchasing.
What they're looking for
- Lead the sourcing operating rhythm. Bring demand, priorities, and capacity: into one forward plan, informed by workload and performance data. Work with category leaders to make tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and follow through on commitments. Provide inputs to Procurement-wide planning and functional business reviews.
- Strengthen contracting. Partner with Legal and Procurement Operations/COE on: contract lifecycle management, approved templates, and negotiation playbooks that improve quality and free category teams to focus on strategic deals.
- Lead RACI development. Define responsibilities, decision rights, handoffs,: and escalation paths within Procurement and across partner teams. Define how the team prioritizes work, allocates resources, and resolves delivery issues.
- Create mechanisms to bring sourcing into decisions earlier: connect business demand, supplier activity, and renewals—including work outside formal intake—with Sourcing teams, so options can be shaped before commitments and Finance and cross-functional teams can have better visibility.
