Strategic Sourcing Manager, Memory Storage & CPUs

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Strategic Sourcing Manager, Memory Storage & CPUs San Francisco, California, United States About the Team The Hardware Strategic Sourcing & Partnerships organization is responsible for the global supply of compute infrastructure powering OpenAI's model training and inference. We lead strategy, supplier engagements, commercial architecture, execution, and long-term enablement across advanced systems including custom silicon, accelerators, CPU platforms, networking, memory, power delivery, cooling, and full rack solutions. We are a small, high-impact team working across engineering, operations, finance, legal, and executive leadership to scale OpenAI's fleet worldwide. About the Role We are seeking a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager to own and lead sourcing strategy and global supplier partnerships for the Memory Storage & CPUs category (e.g., power systems, high-speed interconnect, memory subsystems, networking modules, mechanical enclosures, thermal systems, etc.). You will be the single-threaded leader across supplier strategy, selection, negotiations, and commercial/operational execution. You will be accountable for enabling massive growth, reducing long-term cost curves, securing supply resilience, and aligning supplier technology roadmaps with OpenAI's future system architecture needs. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Key Responsibilities - Own the category end-to-end: strategy, business case, supplier selection, executive alignment, and operational enablement - Lead complex commercial negotiations including MSAs, NRE, cost models, open-book pricing, ramp/capacity commitments, and risk-buy frameworks - Build and scale a reliable global supply base with redundancy and geopolitical compliance, including mapping and influencing sub-tier

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