# Global Supply Chain Manager- Strategic Components at Density

- Company: Density
- What the company does: Density shows you how people use your space and helps you get more out of every square foot. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://www.density.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/densityai/jobs/4378472009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/density-global-supply-chain-manager-strategic-components/

## About the role

Own the components that make our compute systems fast — the single commercial owner for the direct-material commodities inside our HPC BOM, from sourcing strategy and supplier selection through negotiation, capacity, cost, and continuity. Your scope runs from the CPUs and memory down through the power stages, connectors, and cold plates, operating where a hardware roadmap that keeps moving meets a component market that rarely has enough of what you need.

## What they're looking for

- Category management / commodity management as your core discipline — you have owned a defined commodity portfolio end-to-end, not executed POs against someone else's strategy
- First-hand experience sourcing several of the categories above, with direct relationships into the component manufacturers and their franchise distribution
- Proven ownership of MSA/MPA/LTA/NDA/SOW negotiations with component suppliers — pricing, allocation, lifecycle and liability terms — and the leverage analysis that sets them up
- Capacity planning under constraint — demand planning against a hardware roadmap, negotiating allocation, and making buffer, LTB, and risk-buy decisions in a market that is short
- Sourcing strategy built with engineering rather than handed to them — should-cost, multi-sourcing, supplier qualification plans, and design-for-cost influence at part-selection time
- Fluency with ERP/MRP/PLM and BOM management, and the discipline to keep cost, AVL, and lifecycle data trustworthy

Tags: Engineering