Strategic Sourcing Manager

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager focused on Cloud Infrastructure and Compute to lead procurement strategy for large-scale compute resources including cloud platforms, GPUs, compute infrastructure, storage, and data services. This role sits within Finance and works closely with engineering, AI research, and infrastructure teams to ensure Lila has the compute capacity required to advance frontier science while optimizing cost, scalability, and vendor partnerships. This is a strategic sourcing role, not traditional purchasing. The position will help shape how Lila procures and manages critical AI infrastructure as the company scales.

What You'll Be Building

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for cloud infrastructure, GPU capacity, and high-performance computing resources, including reserved capacity and committed spend programs
• Lead procurement and vendor evaluation for GPU clusters, AI training infrastructure, and emerging compute platforms
• Build and manage strategic vendor relationships with major cloud providers, including contract negotiations, performance monitoring, and utilization tracking
• Drive cost transparency and identify savings opportunities across compute and infrastructure spending
• Partner with engineering, AI/ML, and platform infrastructure teams to forecast demand and translate technical requirements into commercial agreements
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and scaling initiatives for compute infrastructure investments

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of experience supporting rapidly scaling technology or research organizations in strategic sourcing, procurement, vendor management, or infrastructure procurement
• Familiarity with GPU market, AI compute platforms, and hyperscaler landscape
• Experience sourcing cloud infrastructure, enterprise technology, or data infrastructure
• Strong vendor negotiation experience with large technology providers
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and translate infrastructure needs into commercial agreements
• Experience managing vendor contracts with significant spend ($5M+)
• Background in technology, AI infrastructure, cloud services, or data platforms

Bonus Points For

• Experience with procurement tools or spend management platforms
• Understanding of AI/ML training workflows and how compute requirements scale with model size
• MBA or relevant advanced degree

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation including bonus potential and generous early equity. The final offer will reflect your unique background, expertise, and impact.

Expected Base Salary Range $108,000 — $186,667 USD

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

We’re All In

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