Head of Sourcing Enablement & Delivery

ABOUT THE TEAM

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement helps OpenAI secure the products, services, and partnerships that support our research, build our products, and grow our business. We work with teams across the company to make sound commercial decisions and move important work forward.

As OpenAI grows, we are rethinking how sourcing works: bringing expertise into decisions earlier, simplifying contracting, and using AI to give Procurement more time for judgment and strategic work. What we learn internally—and through our supplier and enterprise-buyer relationships—can also inform better products, partnerships, and industry adoption.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a senior leader to head Sourcing Enablement & Delivery, leading sourcing operational delivery, contracting enablement, and AI transformation—and building Procurement’s contribution to OpenAI’s commercial growth. You will build the teams, systems, service model, and cross-functional partnerships that enable sourcing and contracting at scale, helping teams move quickly without losing commercial discipline or accountability.

You will partner with GTM, Sales, and Partnerships to develop Procurement’s contribution to OpenAI adoption and commercial growth. Bring procurement-industry knowledge, buyer insights, and lessons from internal AI use into customer engagement, product feedback, and opportunities across the procurement ecosystem.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing, you will manage the Sourcing Delivery and Contract Management leaders and shape this new function’s priorities, team, and measures of success.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

PRIORITIES AND WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

- A focused roadmap: clear choices about what to build first, what to defer, and how progress will be measured.

- Stronger delivery: capable leaders and teams, faster execution, less rework, and fewer unresolved ownership gaps.

- AI adoption: sustained use of AI-enabled capabilities, with measurable gains in quality, capacity, and user experience.

- Commercial results: increased OpenAI adoption across the procurement industry and a measurable contribution to commercial growth, consistent with independent supplier selection and purchasing decisions.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Build and lead the organization. Hire and develop managers, coach performance, and build succession and leadership depth. Decide how employees, contractors, delivery partners, and AI share the work. Hold leaders accountable for results, capacity, and team health.

- Own sourcing enablement and delivery operations. Set service commitments and quality standards with the Delivery and Contract Management leaders. Match support to deal complexity and risk, and use internal customer feedback to improve the service. Category and Sourcing leads retain ownership of their strategies and deals, including supplier selection, negotiations, and purchasing.

- Lead the sourcing operating rhythm. Bring demand, priorities, and capacity into one forward plan, informed by workload and performance data. Work with category leaders to make tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and follow through on commitments. Provide inputs to Procurement-wide planning and functional business reviews.

- Strengthen contracting. Partner with Legal and Procurement Operations/COE on contract lifecycle management, approved templates, and negotiation playbooks that improve quality and free category teams to focus on strategic deals.

- Lead RACI development. Define responsibilities, decision rights, handoffs, and escalation paths within Procurement and across partner teams. Define how the team prioritizes work, allocates resources, and resolves delivery issues.

- Create mechanisms to bring sourcing into decisions earlier: connect business demand, supplier activity, and renewals—including work outside formal intake—with Sour …