Procurement Lead
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and operate procurement processes, policies, approval workflows, and automation. You will negotiate strategic vendor agreements, manage key supplier relationships and renewals, improve contract and spend visibility, and partner on contract terms, risk reviews, and controls.
Requirements
- Procurement
- Strategic sourcing
- Vendor negotiation
- Contract management
- Vendor management
- Spend management
- AI
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic vendor deals across software, cloud services, data, and professional services
- Structure committed-spend, usage-based, and multi-year agreements
- Manage key vendor relationships, performance reviews, and renewal negotiations
- Design procurement workflows, policies, approval thresholds, and supporting tools
- Automate procurement intake, contract review, spend analysis, and reporting with AI workflows
- Improve vendor-spend and contract visibility and deliver savings through consolidation, right-sizing, and renegotiation
- Partner on contract terms, vendor risk reviews, and audit-ready controls
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account
