Data Center Sourcing Manager

Dallas-Fort Worth Area Infrastructure Strategy In office Full-time About Groq Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the world's fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads. With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, we're uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and it's still wide open. Now let's go build it! Mission: As an Infrastructure Sourcing Manager, you will own data center sourcing end to end: building the pipeline of site opportunities, leading technical and commercial due diligence, negotiating with landlords and colocation providers, and presenting site recommendations to executive leadership for approval. This is a single-threaded owner role. You will partner across Engineering, Networking, Operations, Finance, and Legal, but you will be the person accountable for finding sites, proving they fit, and closing them on the best terms available. You will sit in the Finance organization and report to the Head of FinOps at Groq. Location: This role will be based in one of our three hiring hubs: the Dallas, San Francisco, or New York City area. The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas. You’ll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens. Responsibilities & opportunities in this role: Build and maintain the relationship network that generates our site pipeline — data center developers, brokers, retail and wholesale colocation operators, power developers, and utilities — and translate those requirements into technical specifications and constraints that Direct Procurement sources against Strategic Sourcing: Develop and implement sourcing strategies for data center and telecoms infrastructure and services that optimize cost, quality, and delivery outcomes. Lead technical due diligence on candidate sites: power availability, utility interconnection and energization timelines, electrical topology and redundancy, rack density and liquid cooling readiness, structural and logistics constraints, fiber and carrier diversity, PUE, security and compliance posture, and commissioning evidence. Serve as the primary point of contact for site negotiations, structuring and closing LOIs, term sheets, colocation MSAs and service orders, leases, and powered shell agreements in partnership with Legal and Finance. Negotiate the commercial terms that drive our economics and risk position — $/kW-month pricing, NRC and MRC structure, escalators, PUE treatment, ready-for-service dates and delay credits, SLAs, ramp schedules, expansion rights, cross-connect pricing, liability, and renewal and exit terms. Assist in building the financial and operational case for each site — TCO, cost per MW, lease-versus-own and capex-versus-opex scenarios — and partner with FinOps and Finance on data center unit economics and capital planning. Cost & Value Optimization: Drive cost savings and value improvements by leveraging market intelligence, competitive bidding, and value engineering initiatives to improve total cost of ownership (TCO) for data center assets. Process Improvement & Compliance: Implement and refine supplier selection processes and tools (e.g. RFI/RFP processes, supplier onboarding workflows, document management) to increase efficiency and ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory standards. Partner with networking engineering to understand the infrastructure required to deploy each GPU platform, and translate those requirements into sourceable BOMs for network, storage, admin, and supporting racks. Consult & inform infrastructure equipment procurement — cover…

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