Principal Procurement Lead, Compute and Storage
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Radiant</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As part of the Infrastructure team, we are seeking a highly strategic, technically fluent, and commercially astute Principal Procurement Lead, Compute and Storage. In this role, you will own the end-to-end procurement strategy, engage with vendor ecosystems, and contribute to commercial negotiations for our highest-value capital investments. This includes high-density GPU clusters, high-performance network fabrics, storage, and our upcoming site connectivity.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will serve as the primary bridge between our internal Infrastructure teams and the world's leading technology OEMs (e.g. Nvidia, HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro…) and storage vendors (Weka, Vast, DDN…). Your mission is to build the most effective and resilient supply chain to support the implementation of our Technology roadmap, optimize our clusters’ Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and mitigate global supply chain risks for massive, cutting-edge computing infrastructure deployments.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are expanding our footprint of AI factories and GPU clusters. This role runs procurement for the compute and storage category, globally. That covers GPU systems, servers, racks, networking within the rack, and storage platforms.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You own the path from technical design to signed commercial package. You deal directly with the leading compute and storage OEMs, and internally with Architecture, Technical Operations, Commercial and Finance. Individual packages run from a few million dollars to nine figures.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our procurement model splits by category area, and further leads will follow as we scale. This is the first of those roles. You set the standards the rest inherit.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own category strategy for compute and storage, refreshed each quarter against the technology roadmap.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Structure, issue and score RFIs and RFPs. Requirement capture through to purchase order.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the price book for every vendor in your category. Line-item level, version controlled, and the source Finance uses for CapEx forecasts.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Validate every bill of materials before a purchase order goes out. You run that review across Archi...
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