Data Infrastructure Operations Manager (Starlink)
About The Position
The Infrastructure Operations team is responsible for the end-to-end management of suppliers, costs, and delivery of high-quality human-generated data, including annotations, evaluations, and specialized research datasets that power the training, validation, and continuous improvement of our AI models. We're seeking talented, high-ownership individuals to grow and expand our global supplier network while ensuring the consistent, high-quality delivery of critical datasets. Individuals in this role are creative, fast problem-solvers who seek on challenges outside their comfort zone and can iterate and adapt at the rapid pace of the AI industry. As a Data Infrastructure Operations Manager, you will own end-to-end strategy, sourcing, and delivery for a major data taxonomy category (e.g., agentic tool use, coding, etc.) to drive high-signal datasets that improve model performance. You will be responsible for driving to acquisition and delivery targets for this category.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience working in one or more of the following fields: Hardware or product management, Engineering, Procurement, Supply chain management, Strategy and operations, Technology
Nice To Haves
- Self-starting, able to identify areas for improvement with minimal direction
- Experience in managing technical or construction projects from beginning to end
- Ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems
- Excellent project management, communication, and organizational skills
- Experience or interest in data analysis, data visualization, and/or financial analysis
- Demonstrates commitment to SpaceX’s goals of reusability, renewability, and sustainability
Responsibilities
- Negotiate creative, flexible, and commercially effective deals with key suppliers and partners
- Align sourcing strategy with engineering, quality, and performance requirements across priority areas
- Track deal status, approvals, and execution risks while driving suppliers toward timely and reliable delivery
- Continuously improve, standardize, and scale sourcing processes, workflows, tools, and planning systems
- Build a strong pipeline of exclusive and proprietary enterprise datasets
- Provide valuable inputs on upcoming orders based on supplier capacity, quality, and pricing
- Maintain rigorous spend discipline, committing budget only to datasets that meaningfully improve model performance
- Set target pricing, analyze supplier spend and trends, and develop metrics for quality, delivery, and performance
- Manage clear, proactive communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- short and long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- various other discounts and perks
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- paid sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
