Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

We follow a flexible hybrid model that translates to more than half of your time on-site in our San Francisco office — three days per week.

What You'll Do:

Stand up the Procurement function, defining the operating model, policy, thresholds, and decision rights that govern how Strava buys.

Build and lead the team, starting by hiring and developing a Manager, Procurement Operations, and shaping how the function grows from there.

Own a named portfolio of our largest agreements, leading negotiations personally and holding accountability for commercial outcomes.

Carry a hard savings target, with a baseline methodology agreed with FP&A.

Establish renewal calendar discipline across the portfolio, engaging early enough on major agreements to create genuine leverage.

Develop a negotiation playbook, benchmarking approach, and escalation criteria.

Partner with Legal on contracting, Finance on budget and savings validation, and IT and Security on vendor review, keeping all tracks running in parallel rather than in series.

Drive vendor rationalization across the long tail, identifying overlap, underused licenses, and consolidation opportunities.

Give leadership clear, credible visibility into what we spend, with whom, and what we're getting for it.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

The instinct of a builder. You are energized rather than daunted by an empty org chart and an undefined process.

Genuine commercial rigor. You treat a negotiation as an enjoyable analytical problem and know how to strategically leverage every position.

Judgment and standing to hold a position under pressure, and the relationship skills to do so without becoming an obstacle people route around.

Proactively spotting potential issues and taking initiative to resolve them, understanding that "nothing is somebody else's problem."

A collaborative, no-task-is-beneath-me approach to your work.

Professionalism without ego.

Requirements:

10+ years experience building a procurement or strategic sourcing function

Substantial experience negotiating enterprise B2B SaaS and technology agreements, with a demonstrable record of Finance-validated commercial improvement.

People management experience, including hiring, developing, and retaining team members.

Fluency translating spend data into a commercial narrative for executive audiences.

Exposure to public company or pre-IPO purchasing controls, segregation of duties, and audit requirements.

Confidence using modern tools and systems (e.g., Zip, Ironclad, Slack, Notion, AI) to amplify impact.

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