Sourcing Delivery Manager (Devices)

About the Team

OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Procurement team partners closely with business leaders to guide investment decisions, enable growth, and ensure OpenAI acquires the resources needed to operate at global scale through disciplined, efficient, and scalable procurement practices.

The Sourcing Delivery function operates within Procurement as the execution engine that connects strategy to outcomes. The team drives cross-functional sourcing execution from intake through supplier readiness, contracting progression, and delivery follow-through. Sourcing Delivery serves as the operational bridge between product teams, engineering, supply chain, and suppliers, ensuring sourcing actions move with speed, rigor, and accountability as OpenAI scales its products and infrastructure.

About the Role

We’re seeking a Sourcing Delivery Manager, Devices to own end-to-end sourcing execution across OpenAI’s device programs, from early development through launch readiness. In this role, you will enable rapid iteration from concept through validation by ensuring engineering demand, supplier engagement, contracting readiness, and delivery execution remain tightly aligned as programs progress.

You will work in close partnership with engineering, supply management, operations, legal, finance, and security leaders to ensure sourcing actions move with speed, discipline, and full diligence. Your work will directly shape how OpenAI develops and evaluates hardware programs by ensuring the right parts, suppliers, and commercial structures are in place at each stage of the product lifecycle.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as the primary execution bridge between device engineering teams, supply management leads, finance, legal, security, operations, and suppliers, ensuring all sourcing actions are diligence-ready and able to move without downstream friction.

• Develop and submit clear, decision-ready internal justifications for sourcing and supplier approvals, including scope, commercial structure, budget alignment, program timelines, and execution risk.

• Drive supplier onboarding, NDA execution, and contracting readiness to maintain uninterrupted forward momentum from early development through late-stage readiness.

• Lead supplier-facing execution in partnership with supply management and legal to negotiate key commercial and supply chain terms, balancing schedule protection and delivery performance.

• Own end-to-end delivery tracking for critical program materials and parts, maintaining real-time visibility into supplier commits, ETAs, shortages, and recovery plans, and driving escalations when milestones are at risk.

• Translate highly technical engineering demand into structured, executable sourcing actions, ensuring requirements, timelines, and commitments are aligned across internal teams and the global supply base.

• Proactively identify and resolve sourcing bottlenecks, supplier risk, and execution breakdowns, implementing corrective actions before they impact build, validation, or program milestones.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• ​​Have 5 to 8+ years of experience in hardware sourcing delivery, procurement execution, supply chain operations, or a related devices, electronics, or manufacturing environment.

• Understand technical terminology in device sourcing and manufacturing, and can translate engineering requirements into clear, executable sourcing and supplier actions with speed.

• Operate with exceptional organization and execution discipline, with the ability to manage many concurrent workstreams, tight timelines, and shifting priorities without losing control of detail.

• Bring a strong bias toward speed with accountability—you move quickly, close loops, and take ownership of outcomes rather than just tasks.

• Are highly agile in dynamic environments, adapting in real time to engineering changes, supplier constraints, and evolving program priorities.

• Excel at driving sourcing execution in fast-moving hardware programs, turning incomplete or ambiguous inputs into actionable plans under pressure.

• Bring strong cross-functional operating judgment, with the ability to move work through engineering, supply management, legal, finance, security, and suppliers with urgency and credibility.

• Are comfortable preparing approval-ready business justifications and decision materials that stand up to finance and executive scrutiny.

• Can negotiate practical, execution-critical commercial terms in partnership with legal and supply management to protect schedules, delivery performance, and program outcomes.

• Have strong instincts for supplier risk identification and mitigation, particularly across long-lead components and late-stage readiness milestones.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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