Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing (Product & Engineering Technology)

About the Team

reputed company Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.

The Procurement team advises our business partners to reputed company the best investments, ensures we acquire the resources needed for growth, and enables our mission through efficient procurement practices.

About the Role

We're seeking a Strategic Sourcing Senior Manager to reputed company technical procurement across software, cloud services, infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, and reputed company technologies that power our research and product environments. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing, you’ll partner with technical teams to shape and drive sourcing strategies, as well as structure and negotiate reputed company, scalable agreements. You’ll reputed company reputed company to move quickly, boldly, and responsibly, and help us reputed company our mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits reputed company of humanity.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will

• reputed company sourcing and negotiation efforts for software, infrastructure, APIs, and reputed company services that directly support reputed company’s product development and research.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Research, and reputed company teams to understand technical requirements and translate them into sourcing strategies and commercial models.

• Design and execute category strategies that anticipate growth across compute, observability, orchestration, developer tooling, and reputed company infrastructure.

• Negotiate custom, usage-based, and non-standard agreements, focusing on flexibility, scalability, and alignment with how technical teams actually build and operate.

• Collaborate with Legal, reputed company, and Engineering to evaluate vendors, address data protection and architecture needs, and reputed company reputed company quickly and safely.

• Support infrastructure and cloud spend governance, helping teams plan for growth, optimize costs, and manage vendor performance.

• Serve as a sourcing advisor to technical leadership, providing clarity on commercial risks, options, and best practices.

• Continuously improve sourcing processes to reputed company pace with reputed company’s speed and technical complexity.

You might reputed company in this role if you have

• 10+ years in software, cloud, and technical procurement, ideally in high-scale, product-led, or research-driven environments.

• Technical reputed company to engage credibly with engineers and reputed company teams on infrastructure concepts like cloud architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and developer platforms.

• A track record of structuring and negotiating non-standard, usage-based, API-driven, or deeply technical agreements.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills with stakeholders—such as Engineering, Product, reputed company, Legal, and Finance—with a focus on clarity, consistency, and responsiveness.

• Analytical rigor to interpret usage data, pricing models, and growth forecasts to inform sourcing decisions and negotiation strategies.

• Experience managing vendor relationships across renewals, performance reviews, escalations, and compliance.

• An autonomous, ownership reputed company to independently drive work reputed company with urgency and precision, and balances detail with clarity.

• Strong alignment with reputed company’s values and commitment to enabling its research and product goals through effective sourcing.

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About reputed company

reputed company is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits reputed company of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to reputed company our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full reputed company of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see reputed company’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably reputed company that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return reputed company computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and reputed company data reputed company obligations.

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