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Founding Procurement Lead, Customer Outcomes

Negotiateai Inc. · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

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About Negotiateai Inc.

NegotiateAI Inc. provides a procurement platform designed to analyze, benchmark, and automate negotiations for indirect spending. The platform aims to capture savings in manufacturing procurement by streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. Backed by Menlo Ventures.

About the role

We’re looking for an exceptional procurement operator to join the founding team. Make Aron indispensable to our customers, then help us turn what you learn into product.

What they're looking for

  • You’ve spent roughly 5-10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement transformation and have been exceptionally good at it
  • You’ve personally owned meaningful spend
  • You’ve run competitive sourcing events
  • You’ve negotiated with suppliers
  • You’ve had to defend a sourcing recommendation to senior leadership
  • You’ve dealt with terrible ERP data, incomplete specifications, difficult stakeholders, incumbent suppliers, and savings targets that still had to be delivered
More about this role

Aron is building an AI chief of staff for procurement.

Procurement teams are responsible for enormous amounts of spend, but much of the work that could create value never gets done. Categories go years without being competitively sourced. Supplier negotiations get deferred. Savings opportunities sit buried across invoices, contracts, emails, and ERP systems.

We’re building Aron to change that.

Aron works alongside procurement teams to understand their spend, identify opportunities, run sourcing work, engage suppliers, and turn fragmented information into commercial decisions.

We’re backed by Menlo Ventures and Storm Ventures and work with customers ranging from mid-market manufacturers to some of the world’s largest enterprises.

We’re looking for an exceptional procurement operator to join the founding team.

Make Aron indispensable to our customers, then help us turn what you learn into product.

This is not a traditional Customer Success role.

You will own some of Aron’s most important customer relationships and the procurement work happening inside them.

You’ll sit directly between our customers and our engineering team.

When Aron works, you’ll push it further.

When Aron gets...

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