Director, Infrastructure Supply Chain Hardware

Role Scope

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for compute, storage, networking equipment, and infrastructure services supporting hyperscale data center operations.
Build and manage supplier relationships with OEMs, ODMs, component manufacturers, and service providers against capacity, cost, quality, and innovation objectives.
Run competitive bidding, RFx processes, and negotiations, and lead contract negotiations covering pricing, terms, SLAs, and warranties across MSAs, purchase agreements, and SOWs.
Analyze market trends, commodity pricing, and technology roadmaps, and give engineering and business stakeholders intelligence on total cost of ownership, lead times, and capacity.
Manage supplier performance through scorecards, KPIs, and quarterly business reviews.
Partner with capacity planning, engineering, and program management to forecast infrastructure needs and align procurement timelines with deployment schedules, and build multi-year category strategies.

What We're Looking For

• You've owned hardware sourcing strategy for data center, hyperscale, or large-scale IT infrastructure, negotiating directly with OEMs and ODMs.
• You've led complex contract and pricing negotiations on MSAs, SLAs, and warranties at significant spend.
• You read market dynamics (commodity pricing, lead times, technology roadmaps) and turn them into sourcing and TCO decisions.
• You've built category strategies and managed supplier performance through structured scorecards and QBRs.
• You partner with engineering and capacity planning to align procurement to deployment timelines, not just to cost targets.
• Bonus: GPU, networking, or compute hardware categories.
• Building a sourcing function during rapid scale.
• Global supplier base management.
• Infrastructure services procurement.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Compensation Range

$150K - $200K