Senior Data and Compute Supply Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Source the right data. Find and acquire datasets and collection partners across embodiments, tasks, and environments that fill real gaps in our coverage.
• Run the deals, data and compute. Evaluate suppliers, negotiate MSAs, SOWs, and compute agreements, and manage delivery against commitments.
• Plan compute capacity and spend. Forecast compute needs with the model and infrastructure teams, secure capacity ahead of demand, and own the utilization and cost trajectory of a large, growing spend line.
• Prove before you scale. Run structured evaluations, pilots, quality benchmarking, and capacity testing, and make clear calls on who to scale with.
• Make our bar the supplier's bar. Make sure sourced data meets the internal quality bar our researchers actually rely on.
• Own data rights. Own provenance, licensing, consent, and IP indemnification on everything we bring in, with Legal, so chain-of-custody and training-use rights are clean.
• Stand up the operating model. Build the scorecards, escalation paths, tooling, and the program metrics, data quality, compute utilization, and spend efficiency, visible to leadership.

Job requirements

• You have built sourcing or vendor management at a serious operation. Five or more years in vendor management, strategic sourcing, data partnerships, or infrastructure and compute procurement, with real external-partner…
• A negotiator and an operator. Comfortable with commercial terms and with the technical details, data quality, compute capacity, and utilization, that decide whether a deal is any good.
• You plan capacity and spend. You forecast demand, secure supply ahead of it, and manage a large, growing spend line without surprises.
• You own ambiguity at all altitudes. You can set strategy with leadership and troubleshoot delivery with a supplier in the same day.
• Compliance-aware by instinct. You understand provenance, licensing, consent, and the cross-border realities of acquiring data.
• You build your own tools. You stand up the trackers, scorecards, and dashboards you need, without waiting.