Procurement Lead

BaseTen Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• We're looking for a Procurement Lead to build Baseten's procurement function from the ground up. This is a foundational, high-ownership role for someone who wants to define how a company runs procurement, not inherit an existing process.
• As the company scales across engineering, GTM, and corporate functions, we need to build purchasing workflows and vendor relationships. This is a rare, critical-moment hire: you'll set the leading-practice processes, systems, and policies that the company runs on as it continues to grow, with the mandate and dedicated focus to build something built to scale.
• This role exists to make procurement a source of leverage for the business, not friction. Your goal is to build scalable process, take on vendor management and RFP work that today sits informally with individual teams, and free up business owners' time and capacity, all while building the guardrails the company needs as it grows. You'll partner closely with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners across the company, and you'll be judged on whether teams feel supported and unblocked, not slowed down.
• Responsibilities include designing and implementing Baseten's first company-wide procurement process, approval routing, and other workflows, establishing procurement policies, building out procurement workflows within our existing P2P platform, and more.
• The Procurement Lead will partner with Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners across the company to understand purchasing needs and build workflows that fit how each team actually operates.
• The Procurement Lead will act as a trusted advisor and extension of business teams on sourcing strategy, RFPs, and vendor selection, not a gatekeeper that slows deals down.
• The Procurement Lead will establish procurement controls that support audit readiness, SOX compliance, and security and data privacy requirements as the company matures, in partnership with Legal, Security, and Compliance.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive procurement experience, including experience building or significantly maturing a procurement function at a high-growth technology company
• Proven experience designing procurement processes, policies, and systems from the ground up
• Experience running RFPs and vendor selection processes on behalf of business stakeholders
• Experience with strategic sourcing and vendor contract negotiation across multiple spend categories
• Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Legal on vendor risk assessments
• Comfortable operating with significant ambiguity and building structure where none exists today
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, able to work with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners as a partner, not a source of friction
• Based in San Francisco or New York, with the ability to work in-person 3+ days per week

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities

Skills & Technologies

Apache Spark

Senior

Onsite

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About BaseTen Inc.

BaseTen provides a serverless, GPU-accelerated platform that lets machine-learning teams deploy, scale and monitor custom models behind autoscaling inference endpoints. The service abstracts infrastructure management, supports PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face artifacts, and offers built-in observability, A/B testing and fine-tuning. Customers integrate via REST or GraphQL APIs and pay only for compute used. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, BaseTen targets data scientists and product teams seeking production-grade ML serving without Kubernetes complexity.

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