Sourcing Delivery Lead

Job description

About the Team Our Procurement team enables OpenAI to scale responsibly, efficiently, and at speed. We partner closely with stakeholders to accelerate business priorities while maintaining strong commercial rigor, compliance, and operational excellence. We run the high volume sourcing engine across the company, including quick turn negotiations, rapid cycle times, complete diligence packages, consistent contract quality, and strong vendor controls. The Sourcing Delivery team ensures Strategic Sourcing can scale without slowing down the business. About the Role: As the Sourcing Delivery Lead, you will run the high volume negotiation and contracting engine that keeps the business moving. You will support routine, lower spend, lower complexity commercial work that is often time-sensitive and operationally critical. Your team’s speed, judgment, and customer service will directly unblock teams and keep OpenAI operating at pace. You will lead the front-end of sourcing engagement as a trusted sourcing partner, guiding requests from intake through negotiation and signature. This is not a transactional, system-processing role. It is a commercial leadership function that pairs operational di...