Sr. 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