Director of Compute Infrastructure Procurement
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead the team that sources servers, GPUs and accelerators, networking, storage and rack-level components. You will set negotiation strategy, personally close the largest agreements, operate procurement gates, and present purchase recommendations to executives and the board. You will also build and develop your team and monitor market and supply risks.
Requirements
- 10+ years in IT hardware procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain management with a track record of negotiating large hardware agreements
- Demonstrated leadership of procurement or sourcing teams
- Deep understanding of server and compute hardware markets, GPU/accelerator supply chains, OEM/ODM economics
- Sharp commercial judgment under compressed timelines
- Executive presence to present to a board audience
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA valued
Responsibilities
- Own the IT hardware procurement funnel end to end across compute, GPU/accelerator, networking, and storage
- Lead negotiation on the largest and most strategic supplier agreements
- Set negotiation strategy and playbooks for the sourcing team
- Operate the procurement approval process and present purchase recommendations and capital requests to executives and the board
- Direct Category and Sourcing Managers, Procurement Managers, Vendor Management and Program Management
- Enforce separation between commercial negotiation and technical/quality diligence
- Build senior relationships across OEMs, ODMs, distributors and component manufacturers and carry a cost-savings target
- Enforce sequencing discipline so no hardware commitment is made against unconfirmed capacity or demand
- Partner with Infrastructure Engineering, Capacity Planning, Finance, Legal and Data Center Operations leadership
- Track market intelligence on component pricing, GPU allocation, lead times and supplier health
- Monitor concentration and supply risk and flag exposure to executives
- Build, hire and develop the procurement team and hold managers accountable
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, immediate vesting
- $2,500 yearly professional development reimbursement
- 11 holidays plus PTO accrual and rollover
- Increased PTO at 3 and 10 year anniversaries
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- $500 remote office stipend first year and $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription