Fireworks AI

Head of Procurement

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Mateo

Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 4 weeks ago

Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

$210k to $230k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Mateo

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Mateo, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "San Mateo, Hybrid"
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About the role

About Us:

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.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and commercially minded Head of Procurement to lead our procurement function and shape the company’s sourcing, supplier management, and purchasing strategy.

This role will be responsible for building a high-performing procurement organization that delivers measurable cost efficiencies, improves supplier performance, strengthens commercial discipline, and reduces supply and operational risk. The Head of Procurement will partner closely with business leaders across Finance, Operations, Legal, Technology, and other functions to ensure procurement supports both near-term business needs and long-term company objectives.

The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with strong execution, commercial negotiation expertise, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to build scalable procurement processes in a growing organization.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement Strategy & Leadership

Develop and execute the company-wide procurement strategy aligned with business and financial objectives.

Establish procurement policies, operating models, governance, and approval frameworks.

Build procurement into a strategic business partner rather than a transactional purchasing function.

Identify and prioritize opportunities for cost optimization, supplier consolidation, process improvement, and risk reduction.

Provide leadership and coaching to the procurement team and build organizational capability as the function grows.

Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Management

Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across key spend categories.

Develop category strategies based on spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier capabilities, and business requirements.

Lead or support high-value and complex commercial negotiations.

Drive competitive sourcing processes including RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, and contract negotiations.

Establish commercial benchmarks and ensure the organization receives competitive pricing, terms, and service levels.

Partner with Legal and Finance to improve contract structures, payment terms, renewal management, and commercial protections.

Supplier Management

Develop a structured supplier relationship management program for strategic and critical suppliers.

Establish supplier performance metrics, scorecards, business reviews, and improvement plans.

Identify supplier concentration, continuity, compliance, financial, geopolitical, and operational risks.

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, supplier management, and process improvement.
·Experience negotiating complex, high-value supplier agreements.
·Strong understanding of procurement governance, contracting, supplier risk, and spend management.

Benefits

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How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Fireworks AI, mentioning your remote working experience.
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Found 29d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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