Sourcing Manager, Core Products
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will keep vendor and partnership workflows moving from intake through onboarding, review and approval. You will run mid-complexity deals end-to-end, coordinate supplier onboarding, drive approvals with Legal, Security, Privacy and Finance, and partner with Product and Engineering to support launches. You will also structure contracts and pricing models and keep accurate deal records.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading technology partnerships, sourcing, or commercial negotiations in a high-growth, product-driven environment
- Strong cross-functional leadership
- Comfort operating in regulated or high-risk domains
- Track record of negotiating commercial, technical, and data-driven agreements with technology vendors
- Ability to move fast in ambiguity while maintaining compliance and risk awareness
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate pricing models, volume ramps, FX exposure, and vendor risk
Responsibilities
- Run high-velocity, mid-complexity deals end-to-end from vendor strategy and RFPs through negotiation, security review, contracting and go-live
- Coordinate supplier onboarding, collect required documents and track dependencies
- Drive approval follow-through with Legal, Security, Privacy, Finance and other reviewers
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure vendors support new product launches
- Structure contracts and pricing models that preserve optionality and minimize lock-in
- Maintain accurate deal records, status updates, decisions and next actions
- Support sourcing requests, renewals, evaluations and change orders
- Act as the control plane between product teams and external dependencies
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
