Procurement

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · United States · Operations

This role is for a Procurement professional at an AI company. The primary focus is on managing vendor relationships, contracts, and spend, particularly for AI infrastructure, cloud services, and SaaS tooling. The ideal candidate will be AI-native, using AI tools to enhance procurement processes, and will build systems to streamline vendor management and improve commercial terms. The role requires strong commercial judgment and the ability to collaborate with various internal teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. The outcome is simple: better commercial terms, cleaner approval paths, stronger spend visibility, and vendor processes that support scale without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
  2. The ideal person is an AI-native commercial operator: analytical, commercially sharp, low-ego, and hands-on.
  3. They use AI tools naturally to work faster, think from first principles, and are excited by building simple systems that make complex vendor spend easier to understand, manage, and improve.
  4. Strong procurement, sourcing, vendor management, or commercial operations experience in a technology, SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or high-growth environment.
  5. Able to build simple procurement workflows across intake, approvals, contracts, POs, vendor onboarding, renewals, and spend reporting without adding unnecessary friction.

Skills

Required

  • procurement
  • sourcing
  • vendor management
  • commercial operations
  • technology
  • SaaS
  • AI
  • cloud
  • infrastructure
  • high-growth environment
  • commercial judgment
  • usage-based pricing
  • SaaS contracts
  • cloud/infrastructure commitments
  • enterprise tooling
  • contractors
  • agencies
  • professional services
  • AI-native working style
  • build simple procurement workflows
  • intake
  • approvals
  • contracts
  • POs
  • vendor onboarding
  • renewals
  • spend reporting
  • work effectively across US and European time zones
  • partnering with Finance, Legal, Operations, Security, Engineering, Accounting, AP, GTM, and business owners

Nice to have

  • AI infrastructure
  • cloud spend
  • model/data vendors
  • usage-based software
  • developer tooling
  • NetSuite
  • Zip
  • Coupa
  • Ariba
  • Ironclad
  • Ramp
  • audit-readiness
  • SOX-readiness
  • IPO-readiness
  • global procurement operations

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native working style
  • actively uses AI tools to improve sourcing, vendor analysis, renewal tracking, contract review, reporting, documentation, and workflow design