Procurement Lead

The role

You will build and lead the Procurement function at Parallel. You will lead compute negotiations, own vendor procurement across software, services, and infrastructure, and manage content and data partnership payouts.

What you will do

• Build and lead Parallel's Procurement function
• Lead compute negotiations with cloud and infrastructure providers
• Own vendor procurement across software, services, and infrastructure from intake to signature
• Own content and data partnership payouts
• Partner with finance, accounting, legal, and engineering
• Help hire the team as the function grows

Required qualifications

• Been the first procurement lead at a high-growth tech company and built the function from nothing
• Personally negotiated large, complex deals across cloud, AI, data, and software
• Understand compute economics: reserved versus on-demand, commit sizing, and the levers that keep things flexible
• Owned the full flow from request to contract to payment

Nice to have

• Use AI tools to move faster with a lean team

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous equity
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans
• Daily lunch & office snacks
• Dinner at the office
• Unlimited vacation
• Caltrain pass reimbursement

About the company

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Their products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build AI agents.