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Responsibilities
- Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across Meta to develop, implement, and optimize outsourcing and vendor management solutions for Gen AI data annotation and collection vendors
- Proactively identify, track, and manage risks and issues across programs
- Identify, develop, and deploy industry-leading supplier management, procurement, and category management practices
- Prepare and manage sourcing documents, contracts, statements of work, and related procurement documents, driving the legal, financial, and technical aspects of outsourced programs
- Lead contract negotiations that maximize value to the company
- Ensure program success through strong performance management and governance, in partnership with the business
- Manage complex sourcing projects end to end: planning, execution, measurement, and optimization
- Collaborate with our Sourcing Category, Contract Management, and Procurement Operations teams, along with cross-functional partners in Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and InfoSec
- Align regional and local processes to Meta's global operating model, applying established vendor management policies, standards, and practices
- Build and cultivate strategic relationships with key suppliers. Provide market intelligence and strategic sourcing updates to the leadership
- Manage, coordinate, and support special projects as needed
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of sourcing experience, ideally in tech or AI domains
- Demonstrated success in negotiating complex contracts and managing vendor relationships
- Excellent program management skills, with a track record of building successful relationships across business stakeholders, cross-functional groups, and third parties
- Strong commercial negotiation skills, using multiple levers beyond rate (e.g., volume discounts, quality thresholds, speed to market, service levels)
- A deep understanding of balancing speed, quality, and cost in sourcing decisions for frontier models in a fast-paced Gen AI environment
- Proficiency in building and maintaining dashboards and reporting tools to support sourcing decisions
- Experience using data to drive sourcing and negotiation strategies
- Experience driving change and improving end-to-end processes
- Knowledge of the legal, financial, and technical components of outsourcing
- Experience in managing a global vendor portfolio
- Experience organizing complex workstreams and solving ambiguous problems by breaking them into structured, actionable steps
- Proven ability to synthesize complex information into crisp, executive-ready summaries for leadership audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Experience sourcing annotations for ML/AI model development and/or large language model development
- Experience in managing high-volume data annotation sourcing programs
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience working in a startup or other dynamic, high-growth company
- Certification in project management or process improvement methodologies
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Experience working with BPOs, crowdsourced/freelance platforms, and boutique data vendors
$139,000/year to $196,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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