Manager - Head of Memory/Storage Sourcing

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

38d

About The Position

To support Meta's 3.8B+ users, the company develops and deploys scale infrastructure globally, across data centers, networks, compute, and storage. Global Supply Chain Technology Sourcing owns the sourcing strategy development, external business relationships, internal engineering partnerships, and execution from new product ideas to scale deployment. The team combines commercial, technical, and operations/manufacturing expertise to enable advances in critical infrastructure domains, including artificial intelligence and custom silicon development. Meta is seeking a leader who creates disruptive value by influencing and executing our memory and storage roadmap that will optimize cost and risk across the supply chain. This role requires business and technical capabilities to influence infrastructure memory and storage strategy and drive execution. The individual will be responsible for leading sourcing across the memory and storage portfolio, including the commercial, operational and technical performance of various DRAM, SSD, HDD and related technologies and supplier base. Together with the team and internal partners, the individual will be responsible for strategy, capacity, material availability, and cost.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or higher degree in Electrical Engineering
10+ years experience leading and managing teams within an engineering or supply chain organization
Demonstrated management and leadership experience growing and developing a team, leading performance improvement, creating a vision, and following through with strategy and execution in the infrastructure technology space
Understanding of memory/storage product development, application and lifecycle across AI, compute, storage and scale data centers
Partner with your team to drive supplier proposals, RFP/RFI/RFQ and business awards. Resolve all commercial queries arising from the quote process
Demonstrated experience in successfully negotiating large, complex agreements covering a wide range of technologies
Experience in developing complex supply chain strategies, securing cross functional leadership buy-in, and driving results
Ability to create cross functional partnerships and enabling the success of others
Experience in NPI launches, product ramp, sustaining support, and end-of-life cycle for compute hardware products in a large-scale environment
Demonstrated experience in hiring, training, and developing sourcing and supply chain teams

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
MBA or Master of Science degree in an engineering field
Program management experience

Responsibilities

Partner with internal stakeholders to influence and align memory and storage roadmap, product launch and partner strategy.
Engage leaders and C-Suite executives at suppliers to actively manage relationships, and drive program and technology deliverables, commercial terms and supply agreements. Drive continuous improvement across cost, supply and other metrics.
Stay up to date with industry trends within the overall infrastructure space, and particularly with AI/compute/storage racks and the evolution of various memory and storage technologies that are embedded in them.
Manage supply chain risks, create optionality and ensure the timely delivery of quality infrastructure products globally.
Develop and execute sourcing strategies that address the unique needs of the supply chain and manufacturing at scale.
Grow and lead an industry leading supply chain team, developing talent at all levels.