Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management within the semiconductor, hardware, or cloud infrastructure industry.
- Experience managing relationships and negotiating, agreements with merchant silicon vendors.
- Experience building cost models, evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO), and executing agreements.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a technical or engineering field or MBA.
- Deep technical understanding of all types of processor architectures, server infrastructure, and the broader data center computing ecosystem.
- Familiarity with merchant silicon pricing dynamics, including performance binning and volume-tier structuring.
About the job
Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.
As the Strategic Sourcing Manager for ARM CPUs, you will act as the primary commercial and product business owner for Custom CPU silicon within Google’s Silicon Sourcing Center of Excellence. Operating within the Product Sourcing pillar, you are responsible for the end-to-end commercial life-cycle of the ARM CPUs that power Google's data center infrastructure.
You will manage high-stakes relationships with the Silicon Operations and Engineering teams and IP vendors, focusing on unit cost optimization, supply assurance, and quality execution.
Your mandate is to align Google’s massive infrastructure scale with Technology roadmaps to secure the best total cost and availability for finished silicon products.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary business and commercial partner for Google ARM-based Central Processing Units (CPUs), working with silicon operations and engineering teams to deliver cost-optimized silicon. Engage with manufacturing and Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) vendors to ensure supply assurance.
- Develop and manage should-cost models for custom silicon, translating market intelligence and yield metrics into data-driven negotiation strategies.
- Ensure uninterrupted supply of critical compute components. Architect resilient allocation strategies, manage buffer inventories, and negotiate robust delivery SLAs with Silicon Engineering and Operations to protect Google's data center build-outs from market shortages or vendor delays.
- Lead any global procurement, pricing negotiation, and contract structuring to support CPUs.
