Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
In SaaS, procurement is not a back-office afterthought. It sits at the intersection of recurring spend, security reviews, and the tooling stack that enables product and go-to-market teams to move. This Procurement Operations Manager role stands out because it treats procurement as an operational system to be redesigned, with explicit emphasis on automation and AI-native workflows inside a software company environment.
For a SaaS career, the work offers durable leverage. Running intake, vendor onboarding, and the procure-to-pay cycle builds fluency in how SaaS companies control risk and cost while supporting growth initiatives. The remit also touches contract commercial terms and cross-functional coordination with Finance, Legal, Security, IT, and Accounts Payable, experience that transfers well to broader finance operations, business operations, and systems-heavy roles across SaaS.
This role fits an operator who prefers building structure through execution and iterating on process rather than maintaining a static playbook. It will suit someone comfortable switching between detailed transactional work and higher-level workflow design, and who can apply judgment when information is incomplete. The listing also signals a good match for professionals interested in using AI as an operational capability, with rigor around quality control and adoption.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Join Airtable as a Procurement Operations Manager and help reimagine how procurement gets done at one of the fastest-moving finance organizations in tech. This role owns the day-to-day of a high-velocity procurement function while rebuilding it for an AI-native era: designing automation, deploying AI agents, and raising the bar for what modern procurement operations looks like.
The procurement domain can be learned by the right person; the operating instincts cannot. We're looking for someone with the curiosity, adaptability, and judgment to step into a complex function, build trust quickly, and deliver. Over time, this role can flex into broader Finance and Business Operations work as priorities evolve. It reports to the Sr. Manager, Procurement and is part of the broader Finance Operations org.
What you'll do
- Own and elevate day-to-day procurement operations
- Run vendor onboarding, intake triage, PO creation, and urgent approval coordination across business, finance, legal, security, and IT with minimal oversight
- Take active responsibility across the procure-to-pay cycle, partnering with Accounts Payable on vendor master data quality, PO accuracy, and dispute resolution
- Design and scale fast-buy processes (P-card programs, catalogs, self-service paths) that take repetitive purchases out of the queue
- Lead contract redlining
- Own redline of SOWs and Order Forms for commercial terms, partnering with Legal on non-commercial terms
- Re-architect procurement with AI
- Identify where AI agents, automation, and Airtable-native tooling can replace manual work, then build, deploy, iterate, and set the standard for how the team adopts agentic systems
- Design multi-step workflows that delegate routine tasks to AI rather than just speeding up the human version of them
- Verify AI output with rigor: anticipate failure modes, build in checks, and define how the team distinguishes trustworthy output from slop
- Build reusable tools, templates, and playbooks that raise the quality bar across the company, not just your own output
- Flex into broader operations work
- Take on cross-functional Finance Operations projects as priorities shift, scoped to grow beyond procurement for someone with the instincts to wear whatever hat the business needs
Who you are
- 6+ years across procurement, sourcing, finance operations, business operations, program management, or an equivalent function. Procurement experience is a plus; a strong cross-functional operator who picks up complex domains quickly is equally compelling
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, biased toward taking the first swing over over-planning, with genuine curiosity for unfamiliar problems
- Meets stakeholders where they are and earns structure by delivering, scanning for friction and bridging gaps no one else owns
- Strong written and verbal communicator who can adjust register for the audience, whether that is the CFO, vendor counsel, or a teammate in Slack
- Directs AI tools rather than just using them, producing higher-quality work because of how AI is used, and can point to specific examples of work that couldn't have been done a year ago
- Has built reusable tools, templates, or workflows that others adopted, raising someone else's quality bar through what was built
- Experience with procurement, financial, and legal systems (Zip, Coupa, Workday, Ironclad CLM) or a clear track record of picking up new tooling quickly
- Excited that this role can grow into broader Finance or Business Operations work
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
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