[Hiring] Senior Technical Sourcing Manager, Optics and Switches @IREN

Role Description

IREN is looking for a Technical Sourcing Manager, Optics & Switches to take full ownership of our data center switching and optics category. This is not a support role — you'll be the commercial and technical owner of the switch, transceiver, and cabling relationships that let IREN's network keep pace with an explosive data center build schedule.

• If you love the adrenaline of a supply-constrained market, know your way around a leaf-spine architecture, and want to see your negotiations show up as switches racked and lit within weeks of your decisions — this is the seat for you.
• You'll operate with real autonomy, direct visibility to the Director, Network Sourcing, and the mandate to shape how IREN sources switching and optics at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical sourcing, procurement, or category management, with direct experience sourcing networking hardware from a major switch OEM and/or ODM.
• Proven track record sourcing switching/optics hardware in a data center, hyperscale, cloud, or AI/HPC environment.
• Deep understanding of switch architectures (ToR/leaf/spine), optical transceivers (SFP/QSFP), and DAC/AOC cabling, including relevant standards and interoperability.
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements and managing high-value vendor relationships.
• Battle-tested experience navigating supply-constrained/allocation-based markets and building mitigation strategies that actually work.
• Sharp analytical instincts — comfortable building cost models, TCO analyses, and forecasts under pressure.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; equally at home with network engineering, operations, finance, and legal.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Requirements

• Existing relationships with major switch/optics vendors and ODM/whitebox suppliers.
• Experience sourcing for AI/HPC infrastructure at scale.
• Deep familiarity with data center commissioning timelines and how network hardware delivery integrates with provisioning and rack integration schedules.