Procurement Lead at Supabase

About the Role

Supabase is looking for a Procurement Lead to own the commercial and vendor management function. In this role, you will manage our cloud and SaaS vendor relationships from start to finish (including AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, CloudQuery, ClickHouse, and others), lead negotiations and renewals, enforce procurement governance, and apply our VIA operating model (Visibility, Insights, Actions) to keep vendor spend disciplined and well governed. You will collaborate closely with Finance, Engineering, Legal, and our vendor partners.

This is a lead role for the Procurement function. You will define the operating model, the source of truth for vendor spend, and the standards, with a clear position: this is a FinOps role first, not a pure procurement desk. You will own the technical and analytical side of vendor management, reporting, efficiency, and the commercial interface across the company, while keeping procurement governance tight. It is 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 Will Be Responsible For

• 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 reports. Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for your team.
• Manage team delivery and accountability: own the team roadmap and project management (in Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones. Manage workflow intake and Slack triage. Own the team 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

• Have 8+ years in vendor or commercial management, procurement, FinOps, or technical or financial analysis, at a senior, function owning level.
• Have owned vendor relationships, contract negotiations, and renewals, and treat them as a lever on unit economics.
• Have run procurement governance such as competitive bid processes, benchmark analysis, approval thresholds, or managed procurement partners.
• Have high judgment and can hold a position and drive alignment without positional authority.
• Build cost dashboards and reporting hands on (SQL, BI tools), and are comfortable with vendor and cloud spend data (AWS, GCP, SaaS billing) and licensing or usage analysis.
• Communicate clearly across both technical and non technical audiences.
• Have experience in async or globally distributed teams.
• Are energized by building a function from the ground up and navigating ambiguity.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: we hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
• ESOP: every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we are building together.
• Tech Allowance: use this budget to set up your ideal work environment, whether that is a laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family health are important to us.
• Annual Off Sites: once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It is a highlight of our year.
• Flexible Work: we operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
• Professional Development: every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning, such as courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born remote and open source first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• About 400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it is in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open source ecosystem and strive to support, not replace, existing tools and communities.