# Senior Procurement Manager – Infrastructure Complex Deals

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $234K - $260K
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

Hardware Procurement Operations enables OpenAI's hardware and infrastructure businesses to execute supplier engagements and purchases at speed while maintaining financial discipline, clear ownership, and effective controls.

You will own procurement execution for complex infrastructure deals, including land transactions, lease agreements, power purchase agreements, and fast-moving colocation and fiber engagements.

In this role, you will:

- Drive assigned engagements from intake and agreement execution through purchasing, ongoing obligations, amendments, renewals, final payments, and closeout.

- Assess commercial and operational readiness, identify gaps in scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and payment terms, and drive resolution with the appropriate partners.

- Resolve commercial, financial, and operational dependencies, aligning owners on required reviews and approvals.

- Maintain accurate obligation and purchasing records; coordinate payment readiness, acceptance evidence, invoice exceptions, and reconciliation with business owners, Treasury, Accounting, and Accounts Payable.

- Establish procurement operating standards and influence business, sourcing, Legal, and Finance partners to adopt practices that improve supplier engagement quality, accelerate execution, and reduce risk.

- Design, implement, and manage workflow automation and AI agents, partnering with technical teams where needed.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Have independently managed complex procurement engagements through post-signature execution and closeout, with experience in at least one infrastructure category such as land, leases, power, colocation, or fiber.

- Can distinguish well-structured supplier engagements from those that create avoidable ambiguity or exposure, recommend practical improvements, and recognize when Legal or Accounting judgment is required.

- Understand contractual obligations, payment structures, and procurement controls, and can translate them into clear execution plans.

- Can independently prioritize time-sensitive engagements, navigate ambiguity, and resolve cross-functional dependencies, seeking guidance on complex or consequential decisions.

- Have built repeatable processes in an ambiguous environment and use procurement, contract management, and ERP systems and operational data to improve execution.

What success looks like:

- Business, sourcing, Legal, and Finance partners adopt shared operating standards, templates, and early review cycles, improving engagement quality and contracting readiness.

- Request-to-agreement execution and request-to-PO cycle times improve measurably, alongside fewer preventable delays, missed obligations, invoice exceptions, and financial or contractual exposures.

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- contract management
- ERP systems
- workflow automation
- AI agents

### Nice to have
- Zip
- Oracle
- Ironclad
- low-code tools
- APIs
- scripting

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