Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 205,000 - 335,000 annuallyFunction: Business OperationsExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Commercial judgment","Systems thinking","Operational rigor","Risk management","Written and verbal communication"]

Own infrastructure sourcing operations for pre-construction, design, and construction through purchase order issuance, while maintaining end-to-end visibility across invoices, logistics, delivery, installation, testing, and readiness. Lead vendor onboarding and readiness decisions, coordinate contract workflows, and handle purchase-order strategy and invoice exceptions. Define operating mechanisms, trackers, reporting, and source-of-record governance to keep critical-path schedules and portfolio risk aligned.

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Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead

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Job Summary

Own infrastructure sourcing operations for pre-construction, design, and construction through purchase order issuance, while maintaining end-to-end visibility across invoices, logistics, delivery, installation, testing, and readiness. Lead vendor onboarding and readiness decisions, coordinate contract workflows, and handle purchase-order strategy and invoice exceptions. Define operating mechanisms, trackers, reporting, and source-of-record governance to keep critical-path schedules and portfolio risk aligned.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Operations
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Own sourcing-operations intake and prioritization, translating electrical/mechanical OFCI and infrastructure requirements and need-by dates into procurement workstreams aligned to project schedules.
  • ā€¢Drive vendor readiness and onboarding, managing exceptions, stakeholder commitments, escalations, and readiness decisions before purchase execution.
  • ā€¢Coordinate contracting workflows for NDAs, service agreements, master agreements, and statements of work, resolving nonstandard business issues with Legal and stakeholders.
  • ā€¢Own purchase-order strategy, package quality, approval sequencing, urgent escalations, and exceptions through PO issuance.
  • ā€¢Review invoice exceptions and maintain portfolio visibility across infrastructure readiness, shipment, delivery, installation, testing, and exception closure while assessing critical-path and capacity impact.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 205,000 - 335,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢8+ years of experience in sourcing operations, procurement, infrastructure program management, construction operations, supply chain, or related fields.
  • ā€¢Demonstrated ownership of complex procurement or capital-project workflows across vendor readiness, contracting, PO execution, invoice management, and delivery tracking.
  • ā€¢Experience integrating supplier commitments and long-lead requirements across OFCI, networking, rack systems, fiber, cabling, or interconnect infrastructure with project need-by dates.
  • ā€¢Strong critical-path, risk-management, and recovery-planning with evidence of driving issues to closure under schedule pressure.
  • ā€¢Experience building scalable operating mechanisms (dashboards, KPIs, trackers, SOPs, governance) across multiple systems and stakeholders.
Experience:8+ yearsAI infrastructureCloud infrastructureHyperscale data centersSupply chainProcurementCapital projects
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Commercial judgmentSystems thinkingOperational rigorRisk managementWritten and verbal communication

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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