# Director, Infrastructure Supply Chain

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** New York, NY, Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Management, Rfx Processes, It Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure, Capacity Planning
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Lead sourcing and procurement strategies for hyperscale datacenter compute, storage, and networking hardware. Manage supplier relationships, negotiations, and capacity forecasting to support AI infrastructure deployments.

## Job Description

## Focus
- Analyze market trends, commodity pricing, technology roadmaps, and supply dynamics; provide market intelligence to engineering and business stakeholders on total cost of ownership, lead times, capacity, and innovation opportunities
- Identify, evaluate, and qualify suppliers; manage relationships ensuring performance excellence in delivery, quality, cost, and innovation through scorecards, KPIs, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs)
- Conduct competitive bidding, RFx processes, and negotiations with OEMs, ODMs, networking vendors and VARs
- Lead contract negotiations including pricing, terms, SLAs, and warranties; manage MSAs, purchase agreements, and SOWs while ensuring compliance with procurement policies and governance requirements
- Partner with capacity planning, engineering, and program management teams to forecast infrastructure needs and align procurement timelines with deployment schedules
- Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for compute servers, storage, networking equipment (switches, routers, optics), core components (CPUs, GPUs, memory), and infrastructure services

## Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of sourcing, procurement, or category management in technology, IT hardware, or hyperscale/HPC environments
- Experience with supply chain management, logistics, demand planning, and capacity forecasting in high-volume environments
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills with proven track record delivering cost savings and business value
- Excellent analytical, financial modeling, and stakeholder management skills; proficiency in Excel, data visualization tools, and procurement systems

## Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree (MBA) or advanced degree; 8+ years in strategic sourcing at hyperscale providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OCI, Meta) or large technology companies
- Deep understanding of datacenter infrastructure (compute servers, storage, networking, components)
- Established relationships with OEMs (Dell, Supermicro, HPE etc.), networking equipment (Arista, Juniper, Cisco, etc.), core components (Intel, AMD, Nvidia etc.), and VARs, integrator, distributors, and various other service providers.

## Salary & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity)
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms

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