Senior Program Manager, DC Portfolio & Vendor Mgt.

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.

This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

The Role

The Datacenter Portfolio & Vendor Management Lead will own the operational backbone of Cerebras' global datacenter program.

This person partners closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Accounting, and Executive Leadership to manage strategic supplier relationships, commercial agreements, budgets, payment operations, and portfolio reporting.

This is a highly cross-functional role requiring exceptional organizational skills, commercial judgment, and the ability to drive execution across multiple simultaneous infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Management

• Own the centralized portfolio of global datacenter projects
• Track capacity deployments, schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies
• Develop executive dashboards and portfolio health reporting
• Coordinate planning across Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain

Contract Management

• Own lifecycle management of datacenter contracts
• Coordinate contract negotiations with Legal and Procurement
• Track key commercial terms, renewals, amendments, and obligations
• Maintain repository of supplier agreements and commercial documentation

Vendor Management

• Manage strategic relationships with:
• Colocation providers
• Construction partners
• Power and utility providers
• Network providers
• Equipment vendors
• Professional services partners
• Track vendor performance against SLAs and KPIs
• Drive quarterly business reviews
• Resolve commercial escalations

Financial Operations

• Track purchase commitments and contract values
• Partner with Finance on forecasting and budget management
• Coordinate invoice approvals and payment workflows
• Monitor spend against approved budgets
• Support capital expenditure planning

Program Operations

• Build scalable operational processes for the rapidly growing datacenter organization
• Drive governance reviews
• Maintain risk registers
• Coordinate executive reporting
• Improve portfolio management tooling and reporting automation

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years managing complex infrastructure, construction, or technology programs
• Experience managing large vendor portfolios
• Strong contract administration experience
• Budget ownership experience ($10M+ preferred)
• Experience working with Finance and Legal organizations
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to work across highly technical engineering organizations
• Outstanding communication and executive presentation skills

Preferred

Experience with one or more:

• Hyperscale datacenters
• Cloud infrastructure
• AI infrastructure
• Colocation providers
• Construction management
• Critical facilities
• Supply chain operations
• ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, NetSuite)
• Coupa
• Jira
• Smartsheet
• Airtable
• Tableau or Power BI

Success in this Role

Within your first year you will:

• Build operational rigor across Cerebras' global datacenter portfolio
• Improve visibility into project health and financial performance
• Establish scalable vendor governance processes
• Streamline contract and payment workflows
• Enable infrastructure teams to execute faster by reducing operational overhead
• Establish metrics of economic KPI’s in all leases in the portfolio (Contracted vs actual)

Why Join Cerebras

People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:

1. Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.

2. Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.

3. Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.

4. Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.

5. Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

Find out more about what it's like to work at Cerebras here https://www.cerebras.ai/join-us!

Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!

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