Senior Category Manager Strategic Sourcing Mechanical
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Crusoe, Inc.
Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will own strategic sourcing for mechanical components, including enclosures, structural fabrication, doors, and sheet metal. You will analyze suppliers and capacity, establish category plans, negotiate commercial terms, assess make-or-buy opportunities, and manage supply risks.
Requirements
- 4–7+ years of strategic sourcing or category management experience for fabricated metal, enclosures, or mechanical components
- Working familiarity with metal fabrication, tolerancing, and shop-floor assessments
- Experience structuring, negotiating, and redlining commercial contracts
- Proficiency with supplier qualification, RFI and RFQ processes, scorecarding, and category segmentation
Responsibilities
- Analyze mechanical supply capabilities, pricing, lead times, and capacity
- Own and qualify the mechanical Approved Vendor List
- Verify supplier shop-floor fabrication capabilities
- Develop category strategies and roadmaps
- Negotiate MSAs, SLAs, and commercial terms
- Manage capacity and supplier risks with dual-sourcing strategies
- Evaluate make-or-buy opportunities
- Maintain supplier scorecards and standing commercial terms
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave of absence programs
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance