Procurement Lead

We’re looking for a Procurement Lead to own the commercial and vendor-management function for Supabase. You’ll run our cloud and SaaS vendor relationships end-to-end (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, CloudQuery, ClickHouse, and more), leading negotiations and renewals, enforcing procurement governance, and applying our VIA operating model (Visibility, Insights, Actions) to keep vendor spend disciplined and well-governed. You’ll work closely with Finance, Engineering, Legal, and our vendor partners.

This is a lead role for the Procurement function. The operating model, the source of truth for vendor spend, and the standards are yours to define, against a clear position: this is a FinOps role first, not a pure procurement desk. You'll own the technical and analytical side of vendor management, reporting, efficiency, and the commercial interface across the company, while keeping procurement governance tight. It's ideal for someone fluent across finance and engineering, who thrives in async, fast-moving environments, and wants to build a function from the ground up rather than inherit one.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

In this role, you’ll:

- Own vendor relationships: run our primary cloud and SaaS vendor relationships end-to-end (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, CloudQuery, ClickHouse, and more), leading renewals and negotiations alongside Finance and Legal.

- Run procurement governance: enforce our competitive-bid process for incoming requests and manage larger procurement through our managed-procurement partner, keeping oversight and accountability with FinOps.

- People management: Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment. Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for your direct report(s).Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for your team.

- Manage team’s delivery and accountability: Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones. Manage workflow intake and Slack triage. Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned without creating overhead.

- Drive commercial VIA: own spend visibility and unit economics, surface licensing and usage inefficiency before it becomes a surprise, and drive renewals, right-sizing, and tooling consolidation to realized savings.

- Build reporting and governance: vendor and SaaS cost reporting is the unowned gap today and your highest-leverage area in the first year. Build the dashboards and reporting hands-on, partner with our data teams to scale them, and own the governance layer (spend policies, thresholds, accountability).

- Coordinate the cloud efficiency program: keep optimization initiatives visible and tracked from commitment to realized savings, partnering with Engineering without taking over their delivery.

YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU