Sr. Program Manager, DC Portfolio & Vendor Mgt.
About The Position
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation. Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference. The Datacenter Portfolio & Vendor Management Lead will own the operational backbone of Cerebras' global datacenter program. This person partners closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Accounting, and Executive Leadership to manage strategic supplier relationships, commercial agreements, budgets, payment operations, and portfolio reporting. This is a highly cross-functional role requiring exceptional organizational skills, commercial judgment, and the ability to drive execution across multiple simultaneous infrastructure programs.
Requirements
- 8+ years managing complex infrastructure, construction, or technology programs
- Experience managing large vendor portfolios
- Strong contract administration experience
- Budget ownership experience ($10M+ preferred)
- Experience working with Finance and Legal organizations
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to work across highly technical engineering organizations
- Outstanding communication and executive presentation skills
Nice To Haves
- Hyperscale datacenters
- Cloud infrastructure
- AI infrastructure
- Colocation providers
- Construction management
- Critical facilities
- Supply chain operations
- ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, NetSuite)
- Coupa
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- Airtable
- Tableau or Power BI
Responsibilities
- Own the centralized portfolio of global datacenter projects
- Track capacity deployments, schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies
- Develop executive dashboards and portfolio health reporting
- Coordinate planning across Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain
- Own lifecycle management of datacenter contracts
- Coordinate contract negotiations with Legal and Procurement
- Track key commercial terms, renewals, amendments, and obligations
- Maintain repository of supplier agreements and commercial documentation
- Manage strategic relationships with: Colocation providers, Construction partners, Power and utility providers, Network providers, Equipment vendors, Professional services partners
- Track vendor performance against SLAs and KPIs
- Drive quarterly business reviews
- Resolve commercial escalations
- Track purchase commitments and contract values
- Partner with Finance on forecasting and budget management
- Coordinate invoice approvals and payment workflows
- Monitor spend against approved budgets
- Support capital expenditure planning
- Build scalable operational processes for the rapidly growing datacenter organization
- Drive governance reviews
- Maintain risk registers
- Coordinate executive reporting
- Improve portfolio management tooling and reporting automation
Benefits
- Job stability with startup vitality
- Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
