Strategic Sourcing Lead, Professional Services – Human Data
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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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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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own and evolve OpenAI's Professional Services category strategy and execution roadmap. You'll run multiple complex sourcing workstreams end to end, lead negotiations on commercial structures, partner with Finance, Legal, People and Extended Workforce, strengthen the supplier ecosystem, and use AI to redesign sourcing workflows. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement or category management with depth in Professional Services
- Experience owning Professional Services category strategy and sourcing end to end
- Experience leading complex, high-stakes services negotiations
- Understanding of consulting, advisory, managed services and contingent labor boundaries
- Experience building category operating mechanisms
- Experience using AI to redesign sourcing workflows
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Strong financial and analytical fluency
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Professional Services category strategy and execution roadmap
- Own multiple complex sourcing workstreams end to end
- Build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders
- Lead complex negotiations and design commercial structures including MSAs, SOWs, rate cards and termination protections
- Build scalable category mechanisms such as intake, tiering, playbooks and escalation paths
- Strengthen the supplier ecosystem through competitive sourcing, governance and business reviews
- Partner with Finance and Accounting on spend visibility, forecasting and invoice-to-contract alignment
- Partner with Legal, People and Extended Workforce to reduce co-employment, IP and delivery risk
- Produce executive-ready reporting on pipeline, savings, supplier performance and risk
- Use AI to redesign sourcing workflows
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 for birth parents and 20 weeks for 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
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
