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Procurement Manager

Xaira · South San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Xaira

We’re pioneering the discovery and development of life-changing medicines through the transformative power of artificial intelligence. Backed by Lightspeed, NEA and Sequoia.

About the role

Xaira is seeking a Procurement Manager at the leading edge of the function — a builder who treats procurement as a commercial engine and a proving ground for AI-enabled operations. You're obsessed with stakeholders: scientists, engineers, and business partners are your customers, and their success is your scoreboard. You'll inherit a strong foundation but you have an obsession to drive the function beyond the empirical high-bar.

What they're looking for

  • Own end-to-end procurement operations: P2P process, sourcing, and technology enablement across all goods and services
  • Drive adoption of our contract-first CLM framework while reducing cycle times
  • Run procurement as a service business, with stakeholder experience as a core focus
  • Support Accounting: PO hygiene, invoice-match resolution, accruals, vendor master data and close activities
  • Pilot and scale AI across the lifecycle: contract analysis, spend classification, supplier intelligence, negotiation prep, workflow automation
  • Make Xaira's procurement a showcase for AI-augmented operations — measured in cycle time, coverage, and cost
More about this role

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.

Xaira is seeking a Procurement Manager at the leading edge of the function — a builder who treats procurement as a commercial engine and a proving ground for AI-enabled operations. You're obsessed with stakeholders: scientists, engineers, and business partners are your customers, and their success is your scoreboard. You'll inherit a strong foundation but you have an obsession to drive the function beyond the empirical high-bar.

Operations Leadership

  • Own end-to-end procurement operations: P2P process, sourcing, and technology enablement...

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