At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Mateo
About Fireworks AI
- Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
About the role
- The Head of Procurement will lead the procurement function and shape the company’s sourcing, supplier management, and purchasing strategy.
- This role involves building a high-performing organization that delivers cost efficiencies, improves supplier performance, and reduces operational risk.
- The position requires partnering with Finance, Operations, Legal, and Technology leaders to align procurement with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute company-wide procurement strategy aligned with business and financial objectives.
- Establish procurement policies, operating models, governance, and approval frameworks.
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives and high-value complex commercial negotiations.
- Develop a structured supplier relationship management program for strategic and critical suppliers.
- Create visibility into company-wide third-party spend and identify opportunities for cost optimization.
- Design scalable procure-to-pay and source-to-contract processes.
- Evaluate and implement procurement technologies, sourcing platforms, and contract management systems.
- Partner with senior executives to advise on sourcing strategies and commercial structures.
- Provide leadership and coaching to the procurement team as the function grows.
- Ensure procurement processes support financial controls, audit requirements, and regulatory obligations.
Requirements
- Significant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, supply chain, or related commercial roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading a procurement function or major procurement programs.
- Strong record of delivering measurable commercial value through sourcing, negotiation, and process improvement.
- Experience negotiating complex, high-value supplier agreements.
- Strong understanding of procurement governance, contracting, supplier risk, and spend management.
- Experience managing and developing teams.
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including evaluating business cases and total cost of ownership.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building or transforming a procurement function.
- Experience operating in a high-growth or rapidly changing organization.
- Familiarity with procurement technology, spend analytics, contract lifecycle management, and procure-to-pay platforms.
- Experience managing both direct and indirect spend categories.
- Professional procurement qualification such as CIPS, CPSM, or equivalent.
Workplace
- Role is based in San Mateo.
Skills
- Strategic Sourcing
- Category Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Spend Analysis
- Procure-to-Pay
- Source-to-Contract
