Head of Supply Chain - Data Centers

Head of Supply Chain

San Francisco | Full-time, on-site

Role Scope

• Own sourcing and buying for every critical equipment category behind a 10GW build: switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS, chillers, CDUs, and the long-lead gear that sets the schedule.

• Lock vendor capacity and lead times against the forward build pipeline.

• Hold vendors to their production ramps by tracking every commitment from PO to delivery and acting the day a ship date slips.

• Build the category team: hire category leads and buyers, define the sourcing playbook, and own the results.

• Work with Design, Construction, and Manufacturing so equipment lands before the schedule needs it and procurement never sits on the critical path.

What We're Looking For

• You've personally owned $300M+ in direct materials spend on physical equipment, and you can walk through the numbers from memory.

• You've held vendors to production ramp commitments, and you can name the time a supplier slipped and what you did that week.

• You've built a category or sourcing team: hired the people, set the process, and handed off categories that kept delivering.

• You've worked electrical and mechanical equipment lead times hands-on, down to the factory slot and the test date.

• You've scaled supply at a company going from prototype to volume, where the playbook didn't exist and you wrote it.

• You've made sourcing calls on incomplete data, owned the ones that went wrong, and can say what you changed after.

Bonus

• Data center or utility-scale electrical equipment.

• Fast-scaling hardware: EV, aerospace, energy storage.

• Dual-sourcing a critical category through a supply shock.

• Supplier quality and factory acceptance testing programs.

• Modular or offsite construction supply chains.