About the company
Strava is the app for active people. With over 200 million athletes in more than 185 countries, it's where people make progress together. Our mission is to motivate people to live their best active lives.
Responsibilities
- Stand up the Procurement function, defining operating model, policy, thresholds, and decision rights
- Build and lead the team, starting by hiring a Manager, Procurement Operations
- Own a named portfolio of largest agreements, leading negotiations personally
- Carry a hard savings target with baseline methodology agreed with FP&A
- Establish renewal calendar discipline across the portfolio
- Develop negotiation playbook, benchmarking approach, and escalation criteria
- Partner with Legal, Finance, IT, and Security on vendor review
- Drive vendor rationalization across the long tail
- Give leadership clear visibility into spend
Requirements
- 10+ years experience building a procurement or strategic sourcing function
- Substantial experience negotiating enterprise B2B SaaS and technology agreements
- People management experience
- Fluency translating spend data into commercial narrative for executives
- Exposure to public company or pre-IPO purchasing controls
- Confidence using modern tools (Zip, Ironclad, Slack, Notion, AI)
Conditions
- Flexible hybrid model: more than half of time on-site in San Francisco office (three days per week)