Senior Technology Vendor Manager
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PhiloStreaming media
Fully remote within the U.S.Full-TimeManager
SalarySan Francisco, New York City: $160K - $200K; Boston, DC Metro, Los Angeles, Seattle: $150K - $190K; Denver, Atlanta, Austin, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Chicago: $140K - $180K; Texas, Florida: $135K - $170K
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8–10+ years in vendor management, technology procurement, or a closely related role, with most of that time spent on technology and cloud vendors.
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPAzure
Requirements
- Have 8–10+ years of experience in vendor management, technology procurement, or a closely related role, with most of that time focused on technology and cloud vendors.
- Have hands-on experience managing a relationship with a major cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Be able to read cloud usage and billing data and recommend commitment or pricing changes.
- Understand technology products and categories well enough to compare vendors and make recommendations.
- Have a track record of negotiating pricing, terms, and SLAs that produced measurable savings or better terms.
- Have experience managing contracts through legal review, including NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs.
- Have financial fluency, including vendor budget management and cost modeling.
- Be able to research and analyze options and turn findings into clear recommendations.
- Be organized and proactive, able to plan ahead and manage multiple workstreams.
- Be comfortable working independently in a lean, fast-moving team.
- Streaming or media company experience, or familiarity with transcoding, stream acquisition, and CDNs, is a plus.
- FinOps experience or familiarity with cloud cost tools such as AWS Cost Explorer is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Partner with infrastructure engineers to understand AWS usage, billing, and commitments, and model savings from Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and other commercial options.
- Manage and optimize spend with AWS, CDN partners, and transcoding providers.
- Track usage against commitments and flag risks or opportunities.
- Help Engineering and Data teams find, evaluate, and contract the tools, platforms, and services they need.
- Build an intake process for new vendor requests and coordinate security and risk reviews with IT and Legal.
- Research vendors, define evaluation criteria, run structured comparisons, and support build-versus-buy decisions.
- Run proofs of concept with Engineering and Data teams before committing to new products.
- Lead negotiations and manage contracts with Legal, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and purchase orders.
- Work with Finance to model contract costs and forecast committed spend, and give leadership visibility into vendor spending and savings opportunities.
- Manage strategic vendor relationships, run quarterly business reviews, and coordinate vendor meetings at industry events.
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