Strategic Sourcing Manager, OEM, Hardware and System Integration

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in sourcing or category management, within cloud or infrastructure.
• Experience with OEM compute, storage, and networking hardware and system integration.
• Experience managing multi-region supply ecosystems and scaling integration capacity globally.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in managing OEM partnerships and system integrators.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, hybrid cloud, or edge compute programs.
• Experience sourcing for cloud, hyperscale, or AI infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with sustainability, ESG, and supplier initiatives.
• Understanding of AI/ML hardware (e.g., GPUs, ASICs, accelerators, high-speed networking).

About The Job

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) extends Google’s infrastructure and services to customer data centers, edge locations, and hybrid environments.

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will lead sourcing and supplier strategy for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) hardware and system integration partners that enables scalable, secure, and sustainable distributed cloud deployments. You will drive the sourcing life-cycle from supplier selection and commercial agreements to hardware life-cycle management and regional integration capacity ensuring that Google’s distributed infrastructure can scale efficiently across cloud, edge, and AI workloads.

This role blends commercial acumen, technical depth, and strategic influence, working closely with Hardware Engineering, Product Management, GDC Supply Chain Operations, and Legal teams to deliver infrastructure solutions.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search and Assistant, Geo, Platforms and Ecosystems, Devices and Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $168,000-$249,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Own global sourcing strategy for OEM compute, networking, and storage hardware, optimizing for performance, scalability, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Develop multi-year category strategies for OEMs and system integrators supporting GDC deployments, discussing commercial frameworks, capacity commitments to secure supply and cost advantage across the regional rollout.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to influence design-for-supply (DfS) and hardware standardization, while leading engagement with system integrators to define rack integration, testing, burn-in, and logistics orchestration models.
• Scale integration capacity in North America, EMEA, and APAC to support GDC deployments across enterprise, and public-sector customers, building resilient models that balance cost, lead time, and regional regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering, New Product Introduction (NPI), GDC Technical Program Management (TPM), and GDC Supply Chain Operations to align supply readiness with product roadmap milestones.