[Hiring] Senior Procurement Leader @Denvr Dataworks

Role Description

This is not a traditional purchasing role. For the right person, this is an opportunity to build and own a strategic procurement function at the center of a rapidly growing cloud infrastructure business.

As an experienced Senior Procurement Leader, you will own and drive our strategic sourcing and supplier relationships across cloud and data center infrastructure.

• Negotiate major commercial agreements
• Build strategic vendor relationships
• Secure capacity and supply
• Ensure Denvr achieves highly competitive economics as we continue to scale our infrastructure platform

The role will span:

• Compute (GPUs and accelerated servers)
• High-performance networking
• Storage
• Specialized data center infrastructure, including colocation, power delivery, HVAC/cooling systems, and modular facility construction

End-to-end ownership of commercial strategy and key vendor partnerships is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial leadership experience focused on data center hardware, hyperscale cloud, or enterprise IT infrastructure
• Proven track record negotiating complex, multi-million-dollar hardware, colocation, and software contracts
• Established executive network across the data center, server OEM, networking, and component supplier ecosystems
• Deep knowledge of GPU/accelerated computing architectures, high-performance networking, and data center economics
• Strong financial modeling capabilities, including TCO analysis and capital investment evaluation
• Excellent contract negotiation and executive presentation skills
• Executive presence to represent Denvr alongside senior leadership at major global technology companies

Requirements

• Deeply understands technology go-to-market models, OEM margin structures, and where commercial leverage exists
• Comfortable bridging technical engineering specifications with C-suite commercial negotiations
• Confident testing assumptions and pushing both internal teams and external partners for optimal outcomes
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment where hardware architectures, lead times, and capacity demands change quickly

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and own a strategic procurement function
• Work closely with executive leadership, engineering, finance, and operations
• Be part of a world-class team in the fast-moving field of AI and high-performance computing
• Engage in a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning