Strategic Sourcing Leader, Professional Services
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 lead and develop the Professional Services sourcing team, set portfolio strategy, and personally lead critical negotiations. You will build intake and playbook processes, strengthen supplier accountability, partner with Finance, Legal and People, and drive adoption of AI-enabled sourcing workflows. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.
Requirements
- 10+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement or category management experience across Professional Services categories
- 5+ years of people leadership
- Led complex services negotiations
- Understanding of consulting, advisory, managed services and project-based commercial models
- Experience turning category strategies into operating improvements
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Strong financial and analytical judgment
- Ability to lead through ambiguity
- Practical experience using AI to redesign sourcing work
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the sourcing team
- Set Professional Services portfolio strategy and roadmap
- Manage team pipeline and capacity
- Lead critical negotiations and set commercial quality standards
- Build intake, tiering, preferred-partner models and playbooks
- Strengthen supplier relationships and accountability
- Partner with Finance and Accounting on spend visibility and forecasting
- Partner with Legal, People and Extended Workforce on service models
- Establish portfolio and team performance reporting
- Build senior stakeholder relationships
- Lead adoption of AI 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 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 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