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Posted Jun 8Strategic Sourcing Lead, Technology
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- experience leading technology partnerships, sourcing, or commercial negotiations in a high-growth, product-driven environment.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- About the Team OpenAI Finance ensures the organization is commercially, operationally, and structurally set up to deliver on OpenAI’s mission at global scale.
- The Strategic Sourcing team partners with Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, and Finance to ensure OpenAI acquires the critical external technology, platforms, and services needed to launch new products, operate safely, and monetize globally with speed, resilience, and commercial discipline.
- This role is based in San Francisco (hybrid, 3 days/week in office).
- About the Role We are hiring a Strategic Sourcing Lead (Ads & Consumer Verticals) to manage the commercial execution and vendor strategy across this expanding footprint.
- This role will serve as the day-to-day commercial owner for a growing portfolio of vendors across brand safety, measurement and attribution, fraud prevention and invalid traffic detection technologies, health and finance applications, enabling OpenAI to launch new capabilities, enter new markets, and scale monetization without accumulating excessive cost, risk, or operational fragility.
- You will report to the Technology Strategic Sourcing Lead (Product Ecosystem & Monetization) and work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Growth, and Finance leaders to translate product roadmaps into scalable, defensible vendor strategies. In this role,
- - Have demonstrated strong cross-functional leadership and are able to align Product, Engineering, Legal, Security, and Finance around complex, high-stakes decisions.
- - Are comfortable operating in regulated or high-risk domains (personal financial, health, payments, identity, data etc).
- - Have a track record of negotiating commercial, technical, and data-driven agreements with technology vendors.
- - Enjoy moving quickly in ambiguity while maintaining commercial discipline, compliance, and risk awareness.