Procurement role managing vendor sourcing, contracts, spend visibility, and workflows for AI/cloud/SaaS vendors in a high-growth environment. Requires strong commercial judgment, AI-native workflows, and cross-functional partnership across US/EU time zones.
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About the role
Responsibilities
Manage procurement, sourcing, and vendor management for a wide range of vendors including AI infrastructure, cloud, data providers, SaaS tooling, contractors, agencies, and global services.
Build and maintain simple procurement workflows covering intake, approvals, contracts, POs, vendor onboarding, renewals, and spend reporting.
Ensure better commercial terms, cleaner approval paths, stronger spend visibility, and processes that support scale without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Partner effectively with Finance, Legal, Operations, Security, Engineering, Accounting, AP, GTM, and business owners.
Use AI tools to improve sourcing, vendor analysis, renewal tracking, contract review, reporting, documentation, and workflow design.
Support audit-readiness, SOX-readiness, IPO-readiness, or global procurement operations (as applicable).
Requirements
Strong procurement, sourcing, vendor management, or commercial operations experience in a technology, SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or high-growth environment.
Strong commercial judgment across usage-based pricing, SaaS contracts, cloud/infrastructure commitments, enterprise tooling, contractors, agencies, and professional services.
AI-native working style: actively uses AI tools to improve sourcing, vendor analysis, renewal tracking, contract review, reporting, documentation, and workflow design.
Able to build simple procurement workflows across intake, approvals, contracts, POs, vendor onboarding, renewals, and spend reporting without adding unnecessary friction.
Able to work effectively across US and European time zones.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with AI infrastructure, cloud spend, model/data vendors, usage-based software, or developer tooling.
Experience with NetSuite, Zip, Coupa, Ariba, Ironclad, Ramp or similar tools.
Experience supporting audit-readiness, SOX-readiness, IPO-readiness, or global procurement operations.
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