Procurement Lead

About this role

Lead Supabase’s vendor management and procurement function, with a focus on FinOps, spend visibility, and commercial efficiency. Build the reporting, governance, and operating model for cloud and SaaS spend while partnering across Finance, Engineering, and Legal.

About the company

Supabase builds an open-source backend platform with Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime APIs. It helps developers launch production apps without managing custom infrastructure.

Stack

What you'll do

• Own cloud and SaaS vendor relationships, negotiations, and renewals
• Enforce procurement governance, competitive bidding, and approval processes
• Build vendor cost dashboards, reporting, and spend policies
• Identify licensing and usage inefficiencies and drive realized savings
• Coordinate cloud efficiency initiatives with Engineering
• Manage team roadmap, workflow intake, stakeholder updates, and direct reports

What we're looking for

• 8+ years in vendor management, procurement, FinOps, or technical/financial analysis
• Experience owning vendor relationships, contract negotiations, and renewals
• Experience with procurement governance, competitive bids, benchmarking, or approval thresholds
• Hands-on experience building cost dashboards and reporting with SQL or BI tools
• Comfort analyzing cloud and SaaS spend, licensing, and usage
• Clear communication and sound judgment across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience working in async or globally distributed teams

Nice to have

• Experience building a function from the ground up

Benefits

• Equity ownership through ESOP
• WeWork membership or coworking allowance
• Tech allowance
• Health insurance coverage for employees and dependents
• Annual company off-sites
• Flexible, asynchronous work
• Annual professional development allowance