Senior Contracts Manager – Supply Chain

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure. The Operations team is crucial for the end-to-end execution of AI-IaaS infrastructure and hardware, managing sourcing, data center operations, and cross-company coordination. This role involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating supply chain contracts, owning the contract lifecycle, and partnering with various teams to ensure operational capabilities align with strategic goals, focusing on reliability and scalability.

Must Have

• Draft, review, and negotiate supply chain contracts including MSAs, SOWs, hardware supply agreements, partner agreements, logistics contracts, and NDAs.
• Own end to end contract lifecycle management for all procurement and vendor engagements.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and Datacenter Ops.
• Structure commercial terms for high value AI hardware purchases.
• Lead contract negotiations with OEMs, ODMs, distributors, logistics providers, and critical secondary suppliers.
• Maintain an organized repository of agreements, track renewals, and ensure proactive management of expirations, warranties, and obligations.
• Provide clear guidance to internal stakeholders on contract interpretation, governance, escalation paths, and supplier accountability.
• Support vendor onboarding, compliance checks, insurance validation, and performance governance through contract driven frameworks.
• 8 - 12+ years of contract management or procurement contracts experience in supply chain, hardware, cloud infrastructure, or manufacturing environments.
• Understand commercial structures related to hardware sourcing, logistics, SLAs, inventory terms, and cost of ownership frameworks.
• Strong redlining, drafting, and negotiation skills with the ability to balance business needs with risk mitigation.
• Comfortable working with large, strategic vendors (e.g., Supermicro, Dell, Lenovo, ODMs, global logistics providers).
• Ability to translate engineering, datacenter, and operational requirements into contract language that is precise, enforceable, and scalable.
• Thrive in fast growing, ambiguous, execution-heavy environments and can manage multiple priorities at speed.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence internal stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations.

Good to Have

• Experience with liquid cooled AI infrastructure supply chains, GPU sourcing, or hyperscale cloud procurement.
• Familiarity with contracts for high value hardware clusters, racks, networking gear, and datacenter power/cooling systems.
• Experience working with ODMs in Taiwan (e.g., Pegatron, Wistron, Quanta), OEMs, or Tier-2 component suppliers.
• Knowledge of CLM platforms (Ironclad, Agiloft, DocuSign) and experience implementing contract workflow automation.
• Exposure to vendor-managed inventory (VMI), buffer stock programs, and supply chain risk mitigation contracts.
• Experience securing pricing protections, long-term supply agreements, and allocation guarantees during constrained market cycles.

Perks & Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

The Operations team plays a critical role in ensuring the seamless end to end execution of our AI-IaaS infrastructure and hardware. This team is responsible for sourcing all necessary infrastructure and components, overseeing day-to-day data center operations to maintain optimal performance and uptime, and driving cross company coordination through product management organization to align operational capabilities with strategic goals. By managing the full lifecycle from procurement to deployment and operational efficiency, the Operations team ensures that our AI-driven infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and aligned with business priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Draft, review, and negotiate supply chain contracts including MSAs, SOWs, hardware supply agreements, partner agreements, logistics contracts, and NDAs
• Own end to end contract lifecycle management for all procurement and vendor engagements supporting GPU, server, networking, data center, and facility expansion
• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and Datacenter Ops to ensure contract terms support cost, capacity, lead time, and SLA targets
• Structure commercial terms for high value AI hardware purchases (e.g., NVIDIA GPUs, racks, networking, power systems) including pricing protections, warranties, and delivery schedules
• Lead contract negotiations with OEMs, ODMs, distributors, logistics providers, and critical secondary suppliers
• Maintain an organized repository of agreements, track renewals, and ensure proactive management of expirations, warranties, and obligations.
• Provide clear guidance to internal stakeholders on contract interpretation, governance, escalation paths, and supplier accountability.
• Support vendor onboarding, compliance checks, insurance validation, and performance governance through contract driven frameworks.

Who You Are

• You have 8 - 12+ years of contract management or procurement contracts experience in supply chain, hardware, cloud infrastructure, or manufacturing environments.
• You understand commercial structures related to hardware sourcing, logistics, SLAs, inventory terms, and cost of ownership frameworks.
• You bring strong redlining, drafting, and negotiation skills with the ability to balance business needs with risk mitigation.
• You are comfortable working with large, strategic vendors (e.g., Supermicro, Dell, Lenovo, ODMs, global logistics providers).
• You can translate engineering, datacenter, and operational requirements into contract language that is precise, enforceable, and scalable.
• You thrive in fast growing, ambiguous, execution-heavy environments and can manage multiple priorities at speed.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to influence internal stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with liquid cooled AI infrastructure supply chains, GPU sourcing, or hyperscale cloud procurement.
• Familiarity with contracts for high value hardware clusters, racks, networking gear, and datacenter power/cooling systems.
• Experience working with ODMs in Taiwan (e.g., Pegatron, Wistron, Quanta), OEMs, or Tier-2 component suppliers.
• Knowledge of CLM platforms (Ironclad, Agiloft, DocuSign) and experience implementing contract workflow automation.
• Exposure to vendor-managed inventory (VMI), buffer stock programs, and supply chain risk mitigation contracts.
• Experience securing pricing protections, long-term supply agreements, and allocation guarantees during constrained market cycles.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

A Final Note:

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.