Senior Manager, Procurement Operations - HardwareActive$216K–$240K

Hybrid · San FranciscoOperations

The opportunity

About the Team OpenAI is building Procurement of the future: one that uses AI-enabled systems, clean data, and scalable processes to help the business absorb increasing complexity, speed, volume, and throughput — while enabling teams across OpenAI to operate more strategically…

What they're looking for

  • Balance urgent business needs with procurement controls, approval: requirements, exception paths, and auditability.
  • Work closely with Procurement subject area owners as a team to standardize: workflows, intake requirements, operating rhythms, and metrics where practical.
  • Identify repeatable work patterns, define system and process requirements,: and help build scalable workflows, automations, controls, and reporting for assigned hardware business units.
  • Build operating leverage through practical documentation, SOPs, playbooks,: dashboards, templates, self-service guidance, intake logic, and AI-enabled workflow improvements that reduce repeated manual follow-up and recurring exceptions.