# Procurement Operations Manager

**Company:** [Airtable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airtable)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Austin, TX
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $153k – $211k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Zip, Coupa, Workday, Ironclad Clm, AI Agents, Automation, Procure-To-Pay, Vendor Management, Contract Redlining, Sow Drafting
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Owns day-to-day procurement operations and leads AI-driven re-architecture of the function. Requires 6+ years in procurement, finance ops, or business ops plus strong cross-functional execution and tooling fluency.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

**Own and elevate day-to-day procurement operations**
- Run vendor onboarding, intake triage, PO creation, and urgent approval coordination across business, finance, legal, security, and IT with minimal oversight
- Take active responsibility across the procure-to-pay cycle, partnering with Accounts Payable on vendor master data quality, PO accuracy, and dispute resolution
- Design and scale fast-buy processes (P-card programs, catalogs, self-service paths) that take repetitive purchases out of the queue

**Lead contract redlining**
- Own redline of SOWs and Order Forms for commercial terms, partnering with Legal on non-commercial terms

**Re-architect procurement with AI**
- Identify where AI agents, automation, and Airtable-native tooling can replace manual work, then build, deploy, iterate, and set the standard for how the team adopts agentic systems
- Design multi-step workflows that delegate routine tasks to AI rather than just speeding up the human version of them
- Verify AI output with rigor: anticipate failure modes, build in checks, and define how the team distinguishes trustworthy output from slop
- Build reusable tools, templates, and playbooks that raise the quality bar across the company, not just your own output

**Flex into broader operations work**
- Take on cross-functional Finance Operations projects as priorities shift, scoped to grow beyond procurement for someone with the instincts to wear whatever hat the business needs

## Who you are
- 6+ years across procurement, sourcing, finance operations, business operations, program management, or an equivalent function. Procurement experience is a plus; a strong cross-functional operator who picks up complex domains quickly is equally compelling
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, biased toward taking the first swing over over-planning, with genuine curiosity for unfamiliar problems
- Meets stakeholders where they are and earns structure by delivering, scanning for friction and bridging gaps no one else owns
- Strong written and verbal communicator who can adjust register for the audience, whether that is the CFO, vendor counsel, or a teammate in Slack
- Directs AI tools rather than just using them, producing higher-quality work because of how AI is used, and can point to specific examples of work that couldn't have been done a year ago
- Has built reusable tools, templates, or workflows that others adopted, raising someone else's quality bar through what was built
- Experience with procurement, financial, and legal systems (Zip, Coupa, Workday, Ironclad CLM) or a clear track record of picking up new tooling quickly
- Excited that this role can grow into broader Finance or Business Operations work
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

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