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).