# Strategic Sourcing Manager

Hiring organization: [Vercel](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/vercel)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6a78d824-b5af-4e48-8496-2431abd617a1

Listed on Vercel's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Mid
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 150000 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads sourcing negotiations with major cloud and AI infrastructure providers to secure compute, storage, and capacity at optimal economics as Vercel scales. It suits someone with deep cloud infrastructure deal experience who can balance competitive pricing with operational flexibility while partnering across legal, finance, and engineering teams.

_Our summary, not Vercel's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

## Required

- Strategic sourcing experience with cloud infrastructure providers
- Analytical skills including rate analysis, TCO modeling, and pricing design
- Experience negotiating with AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle or comparable providers
- Understanding of IaaS, compute, storage, consumption-based pricing and committed spend models
- Track record leading complex, high-value infrastructure negotiations
- Ability to evaluate tradeoffs between commitment, flexibility, unit economics and leverage
- Experience translating infrastructure requirements into sourcing strategies
- Experience managing supplier relationships through negotiation, execution and renewal

## Nice to have

- Experience sourcing AI/ML infrastructure or technical services for engineering organizations
- Direct negotiation experience with AI hyperscalers or large-scale AI compute providers
- Experience sourcing SaaS and enterprise software alongside infrastructure

Apply on Vercel's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vercel/jobs/6163582004