# Procurement Enablement Lead

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $216k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Zip, Oracle Fusion, Vndly, Navan, Brex, AI, Automation, Analytics, Procurement Workflows, SOX Compliance, Kpi Reporting, Change Management, Source-To-Contract, Procure-To-Pay
**Posted:** 2026-05-09

> Leads procurement enablement by partnering cross-functionally to simplify workflows, integrate AI/automation, and enhance systems for scalable operations at a high-growth AI company. Requires 8+ years in procurement ops/tech and hands-on experience with enterprise platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner across Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to improve procurement workflows across the spend lifecycle.
- Design and improve procurement intake, guidance, and workflow experiences.
- Translate procurement policies, operational needs, stakeholder feedback, and insights into business requirements for workflows, automation, reporting, and process improvements.
- Partner with Enterprise Technology to support workflow configuration in procurement systems, including approvals, routing, SLAs, escalation, and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to use **AI**, automation, analytics, and decision support tools to reduce manual work and improve service delivery.
- Analyze operational data, workflow metrics, and feedback to identify friction points, trends, measure adoption, and prioritize improvements.
- Build and maintain operational reporting, KPI frameworks, and workflow performance insights.
- Support rollout and adoption of new processes and tools, including testing, documentation, communications, training, and change management.
- Improve consistency, controls, and data quality across procurement workflows for scalability, reporting, and audit readiness.

## Requirements
- 8+ years in Procurement Technology, Procurement Operations, Finance Operations, or related operational/systems-focused roles.
- Hands-on experience with procurement and finance platforms such as **Zip**, **Oracle Fusion**, **VNDLY**, **Navan**, **Brex**, or similar.
- Deep knowledge of Source-to-Contract, Procure-to-Pay, Travel & Expense, and Contingent Workforce processes.
- Experience designing, improving, and scaling operational workflows, automation, and service delivery in complex enterprises.
- Strong analytical skills with operational metrics, workflow data, reporting tools, and large datasets.
- Experience using data for trends, adoption measurement, prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
- Understanding of procurement controls, governance, approval frameworks, SOX-aware design, and risk management.
- Experience applying **AI** tools (including GPT-based), automation, analytics to workflows.
- Translating business requirements into scalable workflows/systems with Enterprise Technology/engineering.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Process documentation, SOPs, workflow maps, and knowledge assets.
- Leading rollout, change management, training, and communications.

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