Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) - AI Infrastructure
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 own material readiness and supply chain execution for hardware programs spanning custom silicon, systems, memory, storage, networking, and racks. You'll drive supply planning, manage shortages, coordinate with suppliers and ODMs/CMs, and build scalable planning processes and KPIs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field
- 8+ years in supply chain program management, commodity management, or strategic sourcing
- Experience supporting complex hardware through NPI and production ramps
- Understanding of hardware supply chains, material planning, and supplier operations
- Experience managing constrained supply and long lead-time commodities
- Experience working with ODMs, CMs, and global suppliers
- Strong analytical, program management, and executive communication skills
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end material readiness across NPI and production
- Drive supply planning for long lead-time and constrained commodities
- Build material readiness plans aligned to EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production
- Monitor supply health, lead times, inventory, and allocation risk
- Drive shortage management and recovery planning
- Coordinate supply commits and forecast alignment with suppliers
- Translate product requirements into supply chain strategies
- Drive alignment across Sourcing, Manufacturing, Finance, Quality, and Planning
- Coordinate with ODMs, CMs, and suppliers
- Lead material reviews and executive program updates
- Establish governance models and operating cadences
- Drive supplier accountability and escalation management
- Support commercial negotiations
- Evaluate second-source and resiliency strategies
- Build dashboards and KPI frameworks
- Drive continuous improvement
Benefits
- 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 for eligible employees
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends