Hybrid, NYC based (option for in-office NY working or fully remote, however must be East Coast)
$200k - $225k + stock options
Talentedge are delighted be exclusively partnering with a late stage AI scaleup on their first dedicated Procurement Lead opportunity.
You’ll be fantastic here if you are a strategist as much as an executor - Very much a doer on a fast-track career trajectory who likes rolling your sleeves up and getting your hands dirty. This is a career-defining opportunity to genuinely build and own, working with the smartest people in the industry on a daily basis.
Key responsibilities:
- Design procurement policy, approval workflows, and select/implement P2P tooling from scratch
- Own negotiation and management of cloud and GPU/compute contracts
- Track and optimise usage-based/consumption pricing
- Audit and rationalise SaaS spend; build software approval processes
- Lead commercial negotiations across all categories
- Partner with Legal on contract terms, including AI-specific clauses
- Build spend visibility and reporting; partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimisation
- Design procurement policy, approval workflows and an operating framework
- Partner cross functionally, with a particular focus on Legal, Finance, Accounting, GTM, Product & Engineering, Accounts Payable
Candidate profile:
- Has ideally built a procurement function from the ground up, utilising AI as much as possible to support commercial decision making
- Significant exposure across SaaS, usage-based pricing and professional services
- Direct experience negotiating cloud/infrastructure contracts
- Established business partner who is able to advise, challenge and influence
Procurement Lead | AI scaleup | NYC in new york at Unknown Company
This position is listed as contract and able to be worked remotely.