Strategic Sourcing Manager, Test Infrastructure

Number of employees

4100

Foster City, CA, USA

Posted on: 2026-02-18

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.


This role will lead commercial strategy, advisory, and execution for Zoox vehicle testing projects. It will own Zoox vehicle testing third-party relationships end-to-end, leading competitive sourcing and negotiations, project execution, and the ongoing performance of testing infrastructure suppliers. Finally, this role will also support operational planning, forecasting, decision-making, and long-term strategy for Zoox vehicle testing.

These activities ensure that Zoox’s cross-functional organizations can successfully validate the technical and behavioral features necessary for Zoox to deliver a world-class vehicle and autonomous driving system.

In this role, you will:

  • Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for Zoox’s testing infrastructure requirements; build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers as the lead point of contact for all commercial topics
  • Lead the day-to-day process of ensuring successful partnerships (milestone adherence, change order management, quality assurance, cost control, etc.) and build supplier performance assessments to support future sourcing decisions
  • Proactively engage with Zoox stakeholders (incl. engineering, operations, manufacturing, strategy, finance, and design) to derive and execute the short- and medium-term business and technology roadmap to support Zoox’s vehicle development and service deployment
  • Design, conduct, and synthesize supplier, industry, and market research; drive cost transparency and build total cost of ownership models to support sourcing decisions
  • Ensure optimal contract coverage for the commodity/service in partnership with engineering and legal support
  • Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of experience focused on commercial analysis and decisions
  • Expertise in automotive or autonomous technology development
  • Experience in driving the completion of complex projects with internal and external parties
  • Ability to view project dependencies end-to-end and proactively mitigate risks or prepare for future needs
  • Successfully crafted, negotiated, and executed complex contractual agreements
  • Bonus Qualifications

  • Open-minded self-starter with the ability to adapt, improvise, and problem-solve
  • Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects with various stakeholders
  • Organizational skills to manage and track transactional details
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