The opportunity
OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building and scaling the infrastructure required to support frontier AI. The Infrastructure Strategic Sourcing team connects technical and project requirements to supplier readiness, contracting, purchasing, equipment delivery, and…
What you'll do
Own sourcing-operations intake and prioritization, translating requirements: and need-by dates across electrical and mechanical OFCI, networking, rack systems, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure into actionable procurement workstreams aligned to project schedules.
Drive vendor readiness and onboarding; own exceptions, stakeholder: commitments, escalations, and readiness decisions before purchase execution.
Lead contract coordination for NDAs, service agreements, master agreements,: statements of work, and related workflows; resolve nonstandard business issues and drive Legal and stakeholder decisions.
Own purchase-order strategy, package quality, approval sequencing, urgent: escalations, and exceptions through PO issuance.
Review invoice exceptions involving quantity, pricing, tax, delivery: evidence, payment terms, or other commercial discrepancies and determine the recommended resolution.
Maintain portfolio visibility across electrical and mechanical OFCI,: networking equipment, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure from design and configuration readiness through production, shipment, delivery, installation, testing, and exception closure; assess critical-path and capacity impact and lead supplier escalation.
What they're looking for
- Own source-of-record requirements, including data definitions, status logic,: milestones, permissions, restricted cost visibility, governance, and reporting quality.
- Design and continuously improve operating mechanisms, SOPs, intake processes,: templates, escalation paths, and tool workflows across Procurement, Legal, Finance, vendors, and Infrastructure teams.
- Produce concise leadership reporting that distinguishes facts from: assumptions, surfaces aging decisions and material risks, quantifies schedule or commercial impact, and recommends action.
- + years of experience in sourcing operations, procurement, infrastructure: program management, construction operations, supply chain, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
