Strategic Sourcing Manager, High Speed Interconnects

TL;DR

Strategic Sourcing Manager: Managing vendor and partner engagements for the hardware design team with an accent on AI full-rack system supply chains, sourcing strategies, and critical supplier relationships. Focus on expanding compute, networking, and storage capabilities for hirify.global’s infrastructure.

Location: Based in San Francisco, CA. Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance offered.

Salary: $295K – $445K + Offers Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Devise and implement sourcing strategies for hardware and related services aligned with hirify.global’s financial, operational, and technology goals.
• Lead RFPs, supplier evaluations, and partner selection with clear criteria and structured engagement models.
• Manage key supplier relationships end-to-end, including contract negotiations, renewals, and performance management against defined KPIs.
• Partner with engineering, finance, legal, and security teams to ensure sourcing decisions meet technical requirements, budget approvals, compliance, and risk considerations.
• Drive efficiency through process design and sourcing systems, ensuring data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Build long-term partnerships and identify opportunities for strategic investments across the hardware supply landscape.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years in technology procurement, with depth in hardware and cloud services at fast-growing technology companies.
• Technical Credibility: Ability to engage engineering teams on technical requirements and translate them into sourcing strategies.
• Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of negotiating custom agreements and maintaining strong, trust-based supplier partnerships.
• Strategic & Analytical Insight: Skilled at developing long-term sourcing strategies, managing cost/risk tradeoffs, and generating actionable analytics to guide decisions.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Adept at working cross-functionally and proactively defining & refining procurement practices to drive efficiency and impact.
• Mission-Driven Focus: Commitment to supporting hirify.global’s mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and hirify.global want the upside of AI to be widely shared.
• 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.