Director of Procurement

About Zip

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.

The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.

Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.

Your Role

We are looking for a Director of Procurement to design, build and scale our global procurement infrastructure. You will be the primary architect of procurement at Zip. You will have the unique opportunity to manage Zip at Zip, serving as the blueprint for what "Best-in-Class" looks like for our entire global customer base. You will design a world-class procurement engine that balances speed, compliance, and savings.

Your impact will extend far beyond our four walls. You will be a strategic partner to our Product and Sales teams, providing the "practitioner’s perspective" that helps us build the future of the category.

You Will

• Design and implement Zip’s end-to-end procurement strategy and operations
• Lead negotiations for our global software, hardware, and services spend. You’ll partner with stakeholders in Engineering, Customer, Marketing, and Sales to ensure we’re maximizing our ROI.
• Identify operational requirements, gaps, and inefficiencies across the source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle and develop solutions that drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Partner with Legal, Security, and Finance to ensure every vendor meets our rigorous standards for data privacy and fiscal responsibility.
• Develop deep expertise in our primary spend categories (SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Professional Services) to proactively manage renewals and consolidation.
• Provide guidance, roadmap and solutions for procurement and industry best practices.
• Act as a strategic advisor to our Product and Engineering teams, providing "practitioner-first" feedback to help shape the future of the Zip roadmap.
• Design and implement a corporate travel and expense program, balancing fiscal responsibility with traveler safety and "duty of care" requirements.
• Optimize our travel booking tool to drive program adoption, ensuring integrated approval workflows and visibility into "leakage" or out-of-policy spend.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 10 years of procurement operations experience; preferably in a high-growth environment tech environment.
• Deep expertise in SaaS vendor strategy, contracting, and lifecycle management.
• Success driving measurable savings, efficiency, and risk reduction while supporting business velocity.
• Demonstrated success in architecting procurement organizations from the ground up, moving from solo execution to hiring and mentoring a high-performing team.
• Strategic, data-driven, and relationship-oriented leader who can influence at all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to translate procurement impact into business outcomes.
• A proactive, adaptable mindset—comfortable leading through ambiguity and driving clarity across multiple teams.
  
  
  

The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $240,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

Perks And Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

• 📈 Start-up equity
• 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage
• 🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees
• 🚍 Commuter benefit
• 🚠 Team building events & happy hours
• 🌴 Flexible PTO
• 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget
• 💸 401k plan
  
  
  

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!