This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for commodity management and sourcing for LinkedIn’s global server and storage hardware portfolio. This role directly influences LinkedIn’s multibillion-dollar hardware strategy—shaping technology adoption, securing long-lead supply, reducing cost, and ensuring continuity of compute capacity across all datacenter regions

You will lead the team that manage global OxM and Supplier relationships, negotiate pricing and supply, evaluate emerging technologies, and create sourcing strategies for CPUs, GPUs, DRAM, NAND, NVMe/SSD, HDD, NICs, motherboards etc. You will be the connective tissue between Engineering, Capacity Planning, Supply Planning, Finance, and Datacenter Operations ensuring the fleet has the right hardware at the right time and the right cost.

This is a highly strategic, cross-functional, and externally visible role with material impact on LinkedIn’s growth and infrastructure readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership - This role leads a team of commodity and sourcing managers, setting strategic priorities and building a high-performing organization. The manager is responsible for coaching, talent development, and ensuring the team has the capabilities required to support LinkedIn’s evolving hardware roadmap.
• Supplier & Vendor Management - The manager oversees executive-level relationships with key silicon, storage, ODM, OEM, and infrastructure suppliers. They lead business reviews, manage escalations, and ensure suppliers meet expectations on delivery, quality, and innovation.
• Commodity & Sourcing Strategy - The leader owns the overall sourcing and commodity strategy across CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage, and server hardware. They align these strategies with engineering roadmaps, datacenter expansion plans, and long-range capacity forecasts to ensure the company has a resilient and cost-efficient hardware supply base.
• NPI Lifecycle - Lead the execution of all New Product Introduction programs, managing cross-functional teams through design, validation, ramp, and full-scale deployment of infrastructure hardware.
• Cost & Commercial Ownership - This role drives major commercial negotiations, pricing agreements, and long-term contracts. It includes modeling cost structures, identifying savings opportunities, and ensuring competitive commercial terms across all hardware categories.
• Supply Assurance & Risk Management - The manager is accountable for securing supply for long-lead, high-demand hardware and proactively mitigating risks related to supply constraints, geopolitical factors, and component lifecycle transitions. They ensure supply availability does not block deployment timelines.
• Quality & Lifecycle Governance - The leader oversees hardware qualification, supplier quality performance, and corrective actions when needed. They manage technology transitions and EOL planning to minimize operational disruption while introducing new hardware capabilities.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Executive Alignment - This role partners closely with Engineering, Capacity Planning, Datacenter Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure alignment on hardware roadmaps and deployment readiness. The manager regularly presents strategy, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years in commodity management, hardware sourcing, semiconductor/memory strategy, or datacenter supply chain.
• 5+ years leading teams (Manager or Senior Manager level). Leading cross functional technical programs or teams in a high scale environment.
• Experience in one or more hardware domains: silicon (CPU/GPU), memory, NAND/SSD, storage, or server platforms.
• Demonstrated success driving complex supplier negotiations and managing executive-level vendor relationships.
• Background in semiconductor economics, DRAM/NAND cycles, server architecture, and datacenter hardware design.
• Experience with building, scaling, and managing high-performing technical sourcing/commodity teams.
• Experience with hardware manufacturing, partnership with Hardware engineering and NPI team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hyperscale infrastructure and data center hardware (Compute, GPU, Storage).
• Experience with ODM/OEM server manufacturing, rack integration, or supply planning.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with C-level executives, particularly in the OxM and Supplier space, to ensure alignment on NPI roadmaps and best in class pricing/availability
• Background in product lifecycle management and NPI stage-gate processes.
• Experience with scaling hardware solutions from prototype to global deployment.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills with a track record of influencing executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing programs involving geographically distributed teams and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cost reduction, supply risk mitigation, and process standardization across NPI programs.

Suggested Skills:

• Systems Thinking
• Cross-functional Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Hardware Infrastructure

You will Benefit from our Culture:

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The pay range for this role is $155,000 to $257,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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