Strategic Sourcing Leader - Enterprise & Engineering Technology

About the Team OpenAI’s Strategic Sourcing team helps the company scale responsibly, efficiently, and at speed. We partner with technical and business leaders across Engineering, Security, IT, Finance, Legal, and Privacy to shape supplier strategy, negotiate critical agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems that support OpenAI’s mission. Within Strategic Sourcing, this team manages strategic supplier relationships across engineering platforms, infrastructure software, security technology, enterprise systems, IT, and hardware. Our work connects technical roadmaps, commercial strategy, supplier leverage, financial discipline, operational resilience, and security. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Strategic Sourcing, Enterprise & Engineering Technology Leader to lead complex technology sourcing work across a portfolio critical to how our teams build, secure, operate, and scale. This role will report to the Senior Director / Head of Strategic Sourcing. This is a senior sourcing leadership role for a recognized expert who can shape category direction, lead multiple complex workstreams, influence senior stakeholders, and solve high-stakes commercial problems with structured thinking and deep expertise. You will manage experienced sourcing professionals, guide strategic supplier negotiations, and help build scalable sourcing practices that strengthen OpenAI’s growth. You...