Procurement Lead

Location: San Francisco or New York, United States; hybrid with in-person work required 3+ days per week

Salary: $190K–$240K annually, plus equity

Company

Baseten provides applied AI infrastructure, inference, and developer tooling that help AI companies bring machine learning models into production.

What you will do

• Build Baseten's first company-wide procurement process, approval routing, policies, operating model, and roadmap.
• Configure requisition, approval, and purchase order workflows in the existing procure-to-pay platform.
• Develop reporting and spend visibility by category, vendor, and department.
• Own vendor onboarding, due diligence, risk assessment, performance management, and renewals.
• Lead strategic sourcing, RFPs, vendor selection, and contract negotiations across multiple spend categories.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners to establish efficient purchasing workflows and controls.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive procurement experience.
• Experience building or significantly maturing procurement at a high-growth technology company.
• Proven ability to design procurement processes, policies, and systems from the ground up.
• Experience with RFPs, vendor selection, strategic sourcing, and contract negotiation.
• Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Legal on vendor risk assessments.
• Based in San Francisco or New York and able to work in person at least 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with modern procurement and spend management platforms with AI-enabled functionality.
• Experience in a high-growth business.
• Familiarity with SOX controls and procurement-related audit requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully covered for employees and dependents.
• Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Paid parental leave and a fertility and family-building stipend.
• Company-facilitated 401(k).
• Exposure to a variety of machine learning startups and related learning opportunities.