Datadog
Manager, Strategic Sourcing, AI Infrastructure & Services
$128K–$187K
New York, New York, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 8+ years supporting procurement through strategic sourcing.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
About the job
Leads strategic sourcing for AI, neocloud, and inference spend, negotiating vendor agreements and advising leaders on commercial and investment decisions.
What you'll do
- Own AI category strategy and high-value vendor negotiations, including pricing and renewals.
- Partner with Engineering and Finance on commercial business cases, forecasts, savings targets, and consumption models.
- Track category performance and market trends, and promote AI and automation workflows in sourcing.
What they ask for
- 8+ years supporting procurement through strategic sourcing, with category ownership and negotiated savings.
- Fluency in AI spend economics, including foundation-model and API pricing, consumption-based SaaS models, and inference cost drivers.
- Ability to independently lead complex, high-spend negotiations and present business cases to senior stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field; ability to become an SME for sourcing and procurement systems such as Zip.
Nice to have
- Experience across AI software and services, SaaS, and engineering tooling.
- Neocloud or compute experience.
Pay
$128,000 — $187,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT, Zip
AI focus
Own sourcing for AI models, APIs, tools, AI-enabled SaaS, and emerging neocloud and inference compute; adopt AI and automation tools and workflows to improve sourcing productivity.
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