Head of Procurement
Fireworks AI · San Mateo
CHECKED 39M AGO
Infrastructureremotedirector$260k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead company-wide procurement strategy for specialized AI intelligence platform.
- Build procurement into a strategic partner supporting production AI scale.
- Shape sourcing and supplier management for cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Commercially minded procurement leader who thrives building scalable functions in high-growth tech. You pair strategic thinking with hands-on execution and love partnering across Finance, Legal and Tech to drive value.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
- Experience leading and developing procurement teams
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities including pricing models and total cost of ownership
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and incomplete information
- Experience building or transforming a procurement function in a high-growth organization
- Familiarity with procurement technology, spend analytics, contract lifecycle management and procure-to-pay platforms
Lab profile
About Fireworks AI
Platform for specialized intelligence to build, train, and serve tailored AI models.
What they build
- Platform to build, train, and serve tailored AI models
- Hundreds of open models for production AI
- Text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal models
Known for
- Founded by team behind PyTorch
- Specialized intelligence tailored to customer data and workflows
- Production-grade AI for text, image, audio, and multimodal workloads
Key facts
- Backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, TCV, and Atreides