About the job

BuildOps is looking for a Senior Procurement Manager to own our end-to-end vendor lifecycle, from intake and evaluation through negotiation, contracting, and ongoing optimization.This role will centralize how we buy software, infrastructure, and services, drive cost savings, enforce commercial guardrails, and free up teams to focus on building and selling. 

You will partner closely with Finance, Legal, IT/Security, and department leaders to ensure every dollar of spend is intentional, well negotiated, and aligned with our strategic priorities.

What you will do

Vendor strategy and intake: 

• Own the vendor intake process, ensuring new requests are aligned with budget, headcount plans, and existing tools.
• Evaluate whether an existing solution can meet the need before approving net new spend.
• Partner with budget owners to prioritize requests based on impact, risk, and ROI.

Sourcing, negotiation, and renewals: 

• Lead RFPs, pricing benchmarks, and competitive bids for key categories (for example SaaS, infrastructure, professional services).
• Negotiate commercial terms including price, ramp structure, auto renewal, caps on increases, and termination rights.
• Build and manage a renewal calendar, ensuring we engage vendors well ahead of renewal dates to avoid last minute compromises.
• Develop a point of view on AI and cloud provider spend management, including token-based consumption models, structuring commitments, monitoring usage, and negotiating guardrails to control cost as AI becomes a core infrastructure layer.

Contracting and guardrails: 

• Develop and maintain a procurement playbook that defines our standard commercial positions (for example no auto renewal by default, limits on term length, renewal caps, usage thresholds).
• Partner with Legal to streamline low risk and standard contracts by creating templates and fallback positions that reduce review time.
• Ensure deals comply with security, privacy, and data handling requirements in partnership with IT/Security.

Process and systems: 

• Own or co own the procurement workflow in Ramp (or equivalent), including approval thresholds, routing rules, and documentation standards.
• Ensure all vendor records, contracts, and key terms are accurately captured in our systems (for example Ramp, ERP, contract repository).
• Continuously simplify and automate procurement steps so stakeholders have a clear, fast path from request to signed contract.
• Identify and aggressively remediate Shadow IT and unsanctioned SaaS by partnering with IT/Security and Finance to surface off process spend, bring critical tools into the formal procurement workflow, and decommission redundant or non compliant tools.

Spend analytics and savings: 

• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting on vendor spend, category trends, and savings realized.
• Identify and execute on consolidation and rationalization opportunities (for example duplicate tools, underused licenses, overlapping vendors).
• Track and communicate savings targets and performance, including both hard savings and cost avoidance.

Stakeholder partnership: 

• Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor related questions and escalations across the company.
• Educate stakeholders on procurement best practices and how to engage early to get the best outcomes.
• Partner with Finance on budgeting and forecasting for vendor spend, including scenario analysis for major contracts.

What we look for

Must haves: 

• 5+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or technology.
• Demonstrated track record of negotiating complex SaaS and infrastructure deals and delivering measurable savings.
• Strong understanding of commercial terms, including renewal structures, usage based pricing, SLAs, and basics of liability and indemnity.
• Comfortable working with Finance and Legal to align on budgets, risk tolerance, and contract standards.
• Highly analytical, able to model scenarios and quantify trade offs (for example TCO, payback, ROI, unit economics)
• Excellent communication and influence skills, able to push back constructively while maintaining strong relationships.
• Self starter who can build processes in an environment that is still scaling and maturing its procurement function.

Nice to have: 

• Experience implementing or owning workflows in Ramp, Coupa, Procurify, or similar tools.
• Background working with global vendors and multi-entity structures.
• Prior experience in a high growth startup environment.

Who you are

• You are a strategic, hands-on procurement leader who enjoys building structure in a scaling environment and acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders.
• You are comfortable digging into details of contracts and pricing models while also stepping back to design processes, playbooks, and systems that make vendor management more efficient and transparent across the company.

Compensation

• LA/SF salary range: $165,000.00 - $185,000.00 base salary + annual bonus opportunity.

About the Job

At BuildOps, we’re building a groundbreaking software solution designed to empower today’s commercial contractors. From service management to project execution, we’re reimagining how our customers operate. Our team thrives on ambition, innovation, and collaboration—qualities we look for in every new hire.

As our Founding Engineer, Agentic Business Transformation, you will embed directly within business functions across the organization, deeply understand how teams operate today, and fundamentally reimagine how they should operate tomorrow. This is not about bolting automation onto existing processes; it's about redesigning how work gets done with agentic tooling transforming (and eliminating) workflows. You will partner with leaders across GTM and G&A to surface high-impact opportunities, architect intelligent solutions, and deliver measurable gains in productivity, output quality, and the experiences we deliver to our customers and employees. You will define what "AI-native operations" looks like inside a high-growth B2B SaaS company—well before most companies have even started asking the question. This is a high visibility role and will involve daily contact with the CEO, Chief of Staff, Chief Revenue Officer, and other members of the BuildOps Executive Leadership Team (ELT). 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Embed within internal business functions, including Revenue, RevOps, Customer Success, Customer Support, Finance, People, and Talent, to develop a deep, firsthand understanding of current workflows, pain points, and decision-making processes 
• Conduct structured discovery, shadowing teams, interviewing stakeholders, and mapping end-to-end processes, to identify where AI can eliminate, redesign, or dramatically accelerate work 
• Reimagine workflows from first principles rather than automating existing steps; challenge assumptions about what requires human involvement and what doesn't 
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered automations, agents, and internal tools that reduce time spent on repetitive, low-value-add tasks while improving the quality and consistency of outputs 
• Integrate large language models, agentic frameworks, and automation platforms into production-grade internal workflows with appropriate guardrails, error handling, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints 
• Measure everything: establish baselines before intervention, track adoption and usage patterns post-deployment, and quantify productivity impact in terms of hours saved, error rates reduced, and cycle times compressed 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders on what AI can and cannot do for their teams; translate business problems into technical solutions and technical constraints into business language 
• Stay abreast of the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape (e.g., LLM capabilities, orchestration frameworks, RPA-to-AI convergence, no-code/low-code platforms) and calibrate our internal stack accordingly 
• Build reusable patterns, templates, and playbooks so that successful automations in one function can be adapted and scaled across others 
• Collaborate closely with the engineering and product organizations to ensure internal automation efforts align with our broader technology strategy and do not create shadow IT risk 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 5+ years of professional experience building automations, intelligent workflows, or AI-powered solutions in a business context—whether that foundation was in robotic process automation, software engineering, solutions engineering, or applied AI 
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with non-technical business teams: you have spent meaningful time understanding how people actually work before designing what to build 
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tooling, including large language models (e.g., Claude, GPT), prompt engineering, and at least one orchestration or agentic framework (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI, n8n, or similar) 
• Strong scripting and integration skills with the ability to connect APIs, build data pipelines, and stand up end-to-end workflows in production—not just prototypes
• Track record of automating processes that previously required human judgment—not just rules-based tasks, but work involving unstructured data, natural language inputs, or contextual decision-making
• Process-oriented mindset: you naturally decompose complex workflows into discrete steps, identify bottlenecks, and think in terms of inputs, outputs, and handoffs
• Comfort operating with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment; you don't wait to be told what to build — you go find the highest-leverage problem and propose a solution
• Excellent communication skills: you can present a business case to the CEO, C-suite executives, or VPs, run a discovery session with an ops team, and write clear documentation for a workflow you've built
• Experience in B2B SaaS, vertical software, or a similarly complex operational environment is a strong plus
• Familiarity with process mining, workflow analytics, or structured methodologies for identifying automation candidates (e.g., lean, six sigma, or consulting-style process improvement) is a plus

COMPENSATION

• [$188,000 to $273,000 base] + bonus opportunity (LA or SF Hub)