OpenAI

Director, Supply Chain Systems

OpenAI

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

ERPOracle

About the role

  • Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of our global supply chain technology landscape.
  • Own the strategy and execution for core supply chain systems, ensuring they scale to support OpenAI’s growing business operations while integrating seamlessly with Finance, Procurement, and People systems.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Supply Chain leadership to enable efficient, auditable, and AI-enabled processes.
  • Define the long-term vision and roadmap for supply chain systems based on business needs and strategic direction, ensuring scalability, compliance, and extensibility.
  • Drive stakeholder management and cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, and other teams to align business priorities with systems strategy.
  • Identify and manage system integrators and external partners to implement the roadmap while building internal capabilities.
  • Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of systems managers, engineers, contractors, and solution architects; provide guidance, career development, and coaching.
  • Own end-to-end design and delivery for procurement, supply and demand planning, manufacturing, logistics, inventory, order management, and product lifecycle systems.
  • Partner with Finance, Procurement, People, and Engineering teams to create trustworthy, auditable, single-source-of-truth datasets for supply chain operations.
  • Drive integrations with upstream and downstream systems (Workday, ERP, Anaplan, Zip, Databricks).
  • Ensure systems and processes are designed to support security, data governance, and regulatory requirements.
  • Establish frameworks for change management, testing, and controls, enabling smooth releases and business continuity.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, automated, and AI-enabled solutions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in supply chain systems, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
  • Deep expertise in ERP and supply chain platforms (Oracle Fusion Supply Chain is a must)
  • Proven success leading large-scale ERP or supply chain transformations (Oracle Fusion Supply Chain or SAP experience is a plus).
  • Strong domain expertise across supply chain planning, supply and demand planning, order management, procurement, PLM, and manufacturing.
  • Strong background in system integration, data architecture, and analytics.
  • Experience working in fast-growing, global companies with complex supply chain needs.
  • Familiarity with compliance and scale and growth requirements.
  • Track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams.
  • Prior experience with Databricks, Anaplan, or Workato/OIC integration platforms (nice to have).
  • Exposure to agentic AI and automation in supply chain workflows (nice to have).
  • Experience working with contract manufacturers on integrations (nice to have).