Principal, Procurement

7+ years of relevant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or technology-spend management, including personal ownership of material negotiations.

Demonstrated experience owning and meaningfully improving procurement processes in a high-growth technology company, ideally within B2C, subscription, SaaS, or fintech.

Hands-on experience administering a procurement-orchestration or comparable workflow platform, including configuring intake, conditional logic, approval routing, permissions, and reporting.

Experience sourcing and negotiating technology spend, including SaaS, cloud infrastructure, data, AI, or other consumption-based vendor models.

Experience partnering with Finance and Engineering to manage cloud or other usage-based technology spend and translate cost and usage insights into commercial decisions.

Strong commercial and analytical judgment, including the ability to connect spend and utilization data to business value and unit economics.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence leaders, challenge requests constructively, create clear employee guidance, and drive cross-functional decisions without formal authority.

A proactive, hands-on operating style and the ability to manage multiple priorities, move between strategy and execution, and bring clear recommendations to ambiguous decisions.

Demonstrated AI fluency: You use AI regularly in your work, have a clear point of view on where it helps and where it doesn’t, and continuously raise your own bar. You are excited to redesign procurement workflows around AI and automation—not just use AI to complete existing tasks faster.

Direct experience administering Zip or a comparable procurement-orchestration platform.

Familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud cost structures, committed-use agreements, cloud cost allocation, or cloud-cost-management tooling.

Experience procuring AI models, APIs, financial-data infrastructure, or other high-volume usage-based services.

Experience in fintech, consumer subscription, financial services, or another regulated technology environment.

Familiarity with security, privacy, legal, and third-party risk-review processes.

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Virtual onsite consisting of 2–4 interviews

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