Strategic Sourcing Leader - Enterprise & Engineering Technology
About the Team
OpenAI’s Strategic Sourcing team helps the company scale responsibly, efficiently, and at speed. We partner with technical and business leaders across Engineering, Security, IT, Finance, Legal, and Privacy to shape supplier strategy, negotiate critical agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems that support OpenAI’s mission.
Within Strategic Sourcing, this team manages strategic supplier relationships across engineering platforms, infrastructure software, security technology, enterprise systems, IT, and hardware. Our work connects technical roadmaps, commercial strategy, supplier leverage, financial discipline, operational resilience, and security.
About the Role
OpenAI is seeking a Leader of Strategic Sourcing, Enterprise & Engineering Technology to lead complex technology sourcing work across a portfolio critical to how our teams build, secure, operate, and scale. This role will report to the Head of Strategic Sourcing.
This is a senior sourcing leadership role for a recognized expert who can shape category direction, lead multiple complex workstreams, influence senior stakeholders, and solve high-stakes commercial problems with structured thinking and deep expertise. You will manage experienced sourcing professionals, guide strategic supplier negotiations, and help build scalable sourcing practices that strengthen OpenAI’s growth.
You will partner closely with the CTO, CISO, IT, Finance, Legal, Privacy, and business organizations to translate technical needs, security requirements, supplier constraints, adoption patterns, and long-term operating priorities into clear sourcing strategies and commercial structures.
You will also build and improve the operating system for the category, including category cards, negotiation playbooks, reporting mechanisms, supplier governance, coordinator workflows, and executive communication rhythms. You will be at the forefront of enabling AI within sourcing workflows, helping the team use AI to i...