The opportunity
About the Team OpenAI's Strategic Sourcing team helps the company scale responsibly, efficiently, and at speed. We partner with leaders across Engineering, Research, IT, Systems, Finance, Legal, and other teams to shape commercial strategies, negotiate critical agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems.
What they're looking for
- Advise executives through clear, decision-ready narratives covering deal: strategy, financial impact, alternatives, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Lead supplier engagement at working-team and executive levels, including: difficult escalations and negotiations conducted under significant pressure.
- Create commercial structures that deliver meaningful savings and cost: avoidance while improving scalability, flexibility, performance, and risk allocation.
- Turn lessons from major negotiations into reusable playbooks, market: intelligence, and stronger negotiation practices for Strategic Sourcing.
