Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence. Backed by Bessemer, Index and Lightspeed.
About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
- Experience managing and developing teams
More about this role
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.
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...
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