Procurement Advisory Services (contract)

The role

The advisor will counsel DuckDuckGo's partnerships team on vendor selection, procurement and negotiations for software, AI, SaaS, analytics, developer tooling and professional services. DuckDuckGo keeps responsibility for internal processes, approvals and signing vendor contracts.

What you will do

• Advise on needs scoping and vendor identification
• Advise on vendor conversations and price negotiation strategies and benchmarks
• Provide guidance on proposed contract terms
• Advise on order forms, MSAs and DPAs
• Run vendor comparisons across deals
• Work with legal, security, finance, product and engineering on each deal
• Advise many small deals in parallel, each with a different internal owner

Required qualifications

• 10+ years advisory practice in procurement, strategic sourcing or vendor management, with a focus on software and SaaS
• Experience advising on hundreds of contracts
• Well-established approach to commercial and contractual details
• Proven methodology for vendor comparison
• Experience working across client organization functions
• Capacity to advise many small deals in parallel
• Deal advisory experience across collaboration, recruiting, analytics, developer tooling, data and research subscriptions, and professional services
• Track record of building trust quickly, clear client communication, and asynchronous work across time zones in North America and Europe
• Experience with data handling and security issues with clients and vendors
• Operating entity or registered sole proprietorship with other current clients and its own professional liability insurance
• Client references available on request
• Located in the US

Benefits

• Fixed-rate compensation, with pricing for additional volume set out in the statement of work
• Access to deal information and internal deal owners provided by DuckDuckGo
• Limited system access where a specific deal requires it

Before you apply

• Subject to DuckDuckGo's standard vendor due diligence, including privacy and security review
• Assigned personnel must have passed a background check conducted by the practice
• Proposal due by email to bdhiring@duckduckgo.com with subject line "Procurement Advisory Services"
• Proposals are reviewed with AI tools, with final decisions made by DuckDuckGo personnel

About the company

DuckDuckGo is an online privacy protection company and remote-first team of 400+ people, founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014. Its browsers, search engine and subscription serve millions of users, and it offers optional private AI access through Duck.ai.