# Strategic Sourcing Manager at Vercel

- Company: Vercel
- What the company does: The autonomous stack for every app and agent. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://vercel.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Hybrid - San Francisco
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $150K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vercel/jobs/6163582004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vercel-strategic-sourcing-manager/

## About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our Procurement team. You will own strategic sourcing for critical cloud infrastructure and AI providers, helping Vercel secure the compute, storage, and infrastructure capacity we need as we scale. You will develop commercial models that balance competitive economics with flexibility, avoiding commitments that constrain growth while creating transparent pricing that improves as our usage scales.

## What they're looking for

- Strong analytical skills — rate/unit-cost analysis, TCO modeling, pricing model design — able to find the real economics underneath a vendor proposal
- Comfortable operating at pace: high deal volume, ambiguity, imperfect information, and a bias toward execution over perfection
- Clear, direct communicator with executives, both internally and across the negotiating table
- You have significant strategic sourcing experience owning the cloud infrastructure deals, including direct experience negotiating with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, or comparable infrastructure providers
- You understand cloud infrastructure commercial models, including IaaS, compute, storage, consumption-based pricing, committed spend, discounts, and capacity agreements
- You have led complex, high-value negotiations where rapidly changing consumption makes forecasting and long-term commitments challenging

Tags: Controllership