Data Infrastructure Operations Manager II (Starlink)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Negotiate creative, flexible, and commercially effective deals with key suppliers and partners.
• Align sourcing strategy with engineering, quality, and performance requirements across priority areas.
• Track deal status, approvals, and execution risks while driving suppliers toward timely and reliable delivery.
• Continuously improve, standardize, and scale sourcing processes, workflows, tools, and planning systems.
• Build a strong pipeline of exclusive and proprietary enterprise datasets.
• Provide valuable inputs on upcoming orders based on supplier capacity, quality, and pricing.
• Maintain rigorous spend discipline, committing budget only to datasets that meaningfully improve model performance.
• Set target pricing, analyze supplier spend and trends, and develop metrics for quality, delivery, and performance.
• Manage clear, proactive communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• 7+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience working in one or more of the following fields:
• Hardware or product management
• Engineering
• Procurement
• Supply chain management
• Strategy and operations
• Technology
• PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• Self-starting, able to identify areas for improvement with minimal direction
• Experience in managing technical or construction projects from beginning to end
• Ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems
• Excellent project management, communication, and organizational skills
• Experience or interest in data analysis, data visualization, and/or financial analysis
• Demonstrates commitment to SpaceX’s goals of reusability, renewability, and sustainability
• ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be willing to work long hours and occasional weekends when necessary to support launch and critical project timelines
• COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: