About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team builds next-generation AI-native silicon and systems while working closely with software, research, and manufacturing partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering systems for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team develops the tools, methodologies, and strategic partnerships needed to accelerate hardware innovation. About the Role We’re seeking an experienced Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager to own sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships for fiber and optical interconnect components across OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Strategic Sourcing, you will lead sourcing across fiber cable assemblies, internal optical harnesses, fiber shuffles, optical backplane assemblies, connectorized and standalone passive optical assemblies, fiber-array units (FAUs), fiber-to-chip and coupling interfaces, detachable connectors, optical routing, and assigned optical packaging, assembly, and test services. You will work closely with electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, mechanical and packaging engineering, quality, rack integration, data-center deployment,manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, and program management teams to translate demanding bandwidth, signal integrity, reliability, and scale requirements into resilient supplier partnerships and scalable commercial strategies. Your work will directly support the performance, reliability, manufacturability, and scale of the high-speed optical connectivity required for OpenAI’s next-generation AI systems. In this role, you will: Develop and execute a comprehensive sourcing strategy for fiber and optical interconnect components supporting high-bandwidth AI systems and infrastructure. Own sourcing across optical fiber cable assembli
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About the Team: We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to identify, structure, and scale partnerships that expand how businesses adopt and benefit from OpenAI. You will work across priority sectors, including legal, professional services, information services, and other B2B categories, while maintaining the flexibility to pursue the highest-impact opportunities as the market evolves. About the Role: You are a senior business development and partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of originating and closing complex partnerships. You can move from market strategy and executive engagement through deal development, launch, and growth. You combine strategic thinking, commercial discipline, and hands-on execution, and you can create clarity and momentum across multipl
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10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, enterprise technology, or platform ecosystems. Proven experience personally originating and closing complex partnerships with senior executives. Demonstrated ability to evaluate opportunities across industries without relying on a single-sector playbook. Strong understanding of enterprise workflows, SaaS, data, AI products, and B2B distribution models. Excellent strategic and commercial judgment, with the ability to make principled tradeoffs and drive disciplined execution. Strong cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, GTM, legal, finance, security, policy, and operations. Outstanding executive communication and relationship-building skills in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass a
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