Sourcing Manager, Cloud (Procurement)

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$135K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7 to 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, cloud partnerships, or infrastructure vendor management.
  • Experience negotiating large infrastructure, cloud, or compute agreements worth millions of dollars annually.
  • Strong understanding of GPU infrastructure, cloud economics, and capacity planning.
  • Experience building executive relationships with infrastructure vendors and managing ongoing commercial performance.
  • Comfortable building procurement processes in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
  • Thrives in high-growth ambiguity, focusing on creating processes rather than following existing ones.

Responsibilities

  • Own the sourcing lifecycle for GPU capacity across diverse cloud providers and infrastructure partners.
  • Negotiate multi-million dollar commercial agreements covering critical aspects such as pricing and SLAs.
  • Secure supply through allocation strategies and maintain buffer inventory to avoid hardware shortages.
  • Collaborate with capacity planning teams to forecast demand and balance cost, availability, and performance across partners.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence strategic sourcing decisions within a cutting-edge technology environment.
  • Ability to work with leading cloud providers and infrastructure partners.
  • Engagement in high-stakes negotiations impacting company growth and operational efficiency.
  • Access to tools and resources to support innovative procurement processes.
  • A role that thrives in fast-paced and dynamic market conditions.
Full Job Description
Sourcing Manager, Cloud (Procurement)

Own how fal buys compute - GPUs, and the long-lead gear that powers our infrastructure. You'll secure supply and negotiate the deals that let us scale faster than anyone else.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN
  • Own the sourcing lifecycle for GPU capacity across hyperscalers, neocloud providers, and infrastructure partners, from evaluation and negotiation through contracting and ongoing capacity management.
  • Negotiate multi million dollar commercial agreements covering pricing, committed capacity, SLAs, and expansion rights (Digital Ocean, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius etc)
  • Secure supply through allocation strategy and buffer inventory so our build-out is never gated on hardware.
  • Partner with capacity planning to forecast demand, secure future capacity, and balance cost, availability, and performance across providers.

WHAT YOU BRING
  • 7 to 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, cloud partnerships, or infrastructure vendor management.
  • Experience negotiating large infrastructure, cloud, or compute agreements worth millions of dollars annually.
  • Strong understanding of GPU infrastructure, cloud economics, and capacity planning.
  • Experience building executive relationships with infrastructure vendors and managing ongoing commercial performance.
  • Comfortable building procurement processes in a fast moving, high growth environment.
  • Comfort building the process, not inheriting it - you thrive in high-growth ambiguity.

BONUS POINTS
  • Experience managing GPU allocation during supply shortages.

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