Procurement Lead

Baseten
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 190,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Procurement & SourcingExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Cross-functional partnership"]

Build Baseten’s procurement function from the ground up—design company-wide purchasing workflows, approval routing, and procurement policies for a high-growth AI organization. Own requisition-to-purchase-order processes in the existing P2P platform and drive visibility into spend. Lead vendor onboarding, due diligence, risk assessments, and strategic sourcing/RFPs, partnering with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners while establishing audit-ready controls for SOX and privacy requirements.

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Procurement Lead

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Job Summary

Build Baseten’s procurement function from the ground up—design company-wide purchasing workflows, approval routing, and procurement policies for a high-growth AI organization. Own requisition-to-purchase-order processes in the existing P2P platform and drive visibility into spend. Lead vendor onboarding, due diligence, risk assessments, and strategic sourcing/RFPs, partnering with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners while establishing audit-ready controls for SOX and privacy requirements.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Procurement & Sourcing

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement Baseten’s first company-wide procurement process, approval routing, and procurement workflows.
  • •Establish procurement policies including spend thresholds, approval authority, and competitive bidding requirements.
  • •Build procurement workflows in the existing P2P platform, including requisitions, approvals, and purchase order processes.
  • •Own vendor onboarding, due diligence, and risk assessment, and lead/support strategic sourcing, RFPs, and contract negotiations.
  • •Establish procurement controls for audit readiness, SOX compliance, and security/data privacy requirements as the company matures.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeavePaid Parental401kFertility Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of progressive procurement experience, including building or significantly maturing a procurement function at a high-growth technology company.
  • •Proven experience designing procurement processes, policies, and systems from the ground up.
  • •Experience running RFPs and vendor selection processes on behalf of business stakeholders.
  • •Experience with strategic sourcing and vendor contract negotiation across multiple spend categories.
  • •Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Legal on vendor risk assessments.
Experience:8+ yearsHigh-growth technology
Skills:Cross-functional partnership
Tech Stack:P2P

Company Brief

Baseten
Baseten provides an inference-first ML infrastructure platform that lets engineering and ML teams deploy, serve, and scale machine-learning models with optimized performance, autoscaling, and GPU-backed hosting for production AI applications. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baseten?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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