Head of Supply Chain

The role

The Head of Supply Chain will own sourcing and buying for critical equipment categories for a tens of gigawatts build. This person will build a category team and work with Design, Construction, and Manufacturing to ensure equipment arrives according to schedule.

What you will do

• Own sourcing and buying for critical equipment categories including switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS, chillers, and CDUs.
• Lock vendor capacity and lead times against the forward build pipeline.
• Hold vendors to production ramps by tracking commitments from PO to delivery.
• Build the category team by hiring category leads and buyers.
• Define the sourcing playbook and own the results.
• Work with Design, Construction, and Manufacturing to ensure equipment lands before the schedule needs it.

Required qualifications

• Personally owned nine-figure direct materials spend on physical equipment.
• Held vendors to production ramp commitments.
• Built a category or sourcing team.
• Worked electrical and mechanical equipment lead times hands-on.
• Scaled supply at a company going from prototype to volume.
• Made sourcing calls on incomplete data.

Nice to have

• Data center or utility-scale electrical equipment.
• Fast-scaling hardware: EV, aerospace, energy storage.
• Dual-sourcing a critical category through a supply shock.
• Supplier quality and factory acceptance testing programs.
• Modular or offsite construction supply chains.

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.