Sourcing Manager, Data Operations

Responsibilities

• Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across Meta to develop, implement, and optimize outsourcing and vendor management solutions for Gen AI data annotation and collection vendors
• Proactively identify, track, and manage risks and issues across programs
• Identify, develop, and deploy industry-leading supplier management, procurement, and category management practices
• Prepare and manage sourcing documents, contracts, statements of work, and related procurement documents, driving the legal, financial, and technical aspects of outsourced programs
• Lead contract negotiations that maximize value to the company
• Ensure program success through strong performance management and governance, in partnership with the business
• Manage complex sourcing projects end to end: planning, execution, measurement, and optimization
• Collaborate with our Sourcing Category, Contract Management, and Procurement Operations teams, along with cross-functional partners in Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and InfoSec
• Align regional and local processes to Meta's global operating model, applying established vendor management policies, standards, and practices
• Build and cultivate strategic relationships with key suppliers. Provide market intelligence and strategic sourcing updates to the leadership
• Manage, coordinate, and support special projects as needed

Requirements

• 6+ years of sourcing experience, ideally in tech or AI domains
• Demonstrated success in negotiating complex contracts and managing vendor relationships
• Excellent program management skills, with a track record of building successful relationships across business stakeholders, cross-functional groups, and third parties
• Strong commercial negotiation skills, using multiple levers beyond rate (e.g., volume discounts, quality thresholds, speed to market, service levels)
• A deep understanding of balancing speed, quality, and cost in sourcing decisions for frontier models in a fast-paced Gen AI environment
• Proficiency in building and maintaining dashboards and reporting tools to support sourcing decisions
• Experience using data to drive sourcing and negotiation strategies
• Experience driving change and improving end-to-end processes
• Knowledge of the legal, financial, and technical components of outsourcing
• Experience in managing a global vendor portfolio
• Experience organizing complex workstreams and solving ambiguous problems by breaking them into structured, actionable steps
• Proven ability to synthesize complex information into crisp, executive-ready summaries for leadership audiences

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience sourcing annotations for ML/AI model development and/or large language model development
• Experience in managing high-volume data annotation sourcing programs
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience working in a startup or other dynamic, high-growth company
• Certification in project management or process improvement methodologies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience working with BPOs, crowdsourced/freelance platforms, and boutique data vendors

Benefits

$139,000/year to $196,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits