Parallel
Procurement Lead
$250K–$350K
San Francisco or Palo Alto · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
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About the job
Build and lead Parallel’s procurement function, negotiating compute and other vendor contracts and managing content and data partnership payouts.
What you'll do
- Lead cloud and infrastructure compute negotiations, structuring commitments for changing growth needs.
- Own vendor procurement across software, services, and infrastructure from intake through signature, and manage content and data partnership payouts.
- Partner with finance, accounting, legal, and engineering; help hire the procurement team as it grows.
What they ask for
- Experience as the first procurement lead at a high-growth technology company, building the function from scratch.
- Personally negotiated large, complex deals across cloud, AI, data, and software.
- Understanding of compute economics, including reserved versus on-demand capacity and commitment sizing.
- Owned the process from purchase request through contract and payment.
Pay
$250K – $350K • Offers Equity
Tools
AI
AI focus
Use AI tools to work faster with a lean team; the company builds AI agents and web infrastructure for AI.
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