Head of Procurement San Francisco, CA

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we’re using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

This role is a unique opportunity to architect and own procurement at Faire during a pivotal period of growth. You’ll define what great looks like - balancing governance with speed, policy with autonomy, and cost control with business enablement. Your work will have an immediate financial impact and lay the foundation for the future.

We are looking for a strategic and execution-oriented Procurement & Sourcing leader to build, scale, and lead our Procurement function. This critical role that will sit at the intersection of Finance, Legal, People, and every internal Business Unit will be responsible for transforming how Faire manages vendor engagement, purchasing workflows, sourcing operations, and internal controls.

We are seeking a player / coach who can both roll up their sleeves to run sourcing efforts directly and also design scalable systems, policies and governance for procurement operations. You’ll be the foundational hire in a growing function, with responsibility for hiring additional sourcing professionals and executing the long-term vision for Procurement at Faire.

What you’ll do

Strategy & Infrastructure: develop and execute the long-term vision for Procurement at Faire, including the definition of principles, policies, and KPIs. Lead the design of purchasing workflows and approval flows. Design and maintain Procurement policies that balances controls with Faire’s culture of speed and autonomy.

• Strategic Sourcing: Set category strategies for top spend areas and own the savings and cost-avoidance targets. Lead the most strategic negotiations and enable your team to run the rest.
• Systems & Operations: partner with Systems, IT, Accounting and Legal teams to improve the procurement platform implementation including PO line item logic, invoice matching, user experience, and implementation of AI tools to increase efficiency. Represent the procurement team’s interest in the financial systems technology stack.
• Leadership: serve as a trusted thought partner to leadership on procurement strategy and spend governance. Hire and lead future sourcing experts to achieve outcomes aligned with the procurement team vision. Partner with business leaders to implement sourcing priorities in the decision making process.
• Project Management & Execution: manage multiple, simultaneous initiatives from concept through execution, ensuring timely delivery, clear communication, and high quality results. Be proactive in managing timelines, cross-functional coordination, and resource allocation.

Financial Ownership

Partner with Finance on budgeting and forecasting of third-party spend. Own accountability for total addressable spend and savings targets.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, and / or finance operations roles - ideally with experience at both startups and scaled companies, 5+ years leading teams.
• Experience building or scaling a procurement and/or sourcing function from the ground up
• Deep expertise in sourcing strategies, vendor negotiations, cost control, and supplier performance management
• Hands on familiarity with procure-to-pay systems like Zip, Coupa, Netsuite, Workday Financials
• Strong process design skills and passion for workflow efficiency, data integrity, and automation
• Ability to influence and work cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Systems, and business leaders
• Experience operating in fast-paced environments where autonomy, judgement, and clarity are essential
• Player / coach mindset: eager to do the work while building the systems and team around you

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.

We are using tech and machine learning to level the playing field: We are using the power of technology and data to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a thriving community of over 100,000 small business owners. We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy. We are curious and resourceful: We always find a way to get the job done and come up with creative solutions to whatever problems are standing in our way. People at Faire are insatiably curious. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making and reason from a first principles mindset.

Salary range:

San Francisco: The salary range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog .

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (