# Senior Director, Procurement

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184,800-$314,400 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Director, Procurement to shape and scale procurement in a fast-growing, all-remote company.

As the Senior Director, Procurement, you'll help create and manage a procurement strategy that supports company goals while improving operational efficiency, managing risk, and building clear, practical processes that work across teams.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead hyperscaler and strategic vendor relationships with a 360-degree view across commercial terms, GTM incentives, product co-development opportunities, and partner program value

- Drive the procurement function forward with speed while maintaining quality to deliver impact for internal stakeholders

- Create, communicate, and execute a procurement strategy that supports GitLab's business objectives and improves operational efficiency, risk management, and scalable decision-making

- Own procurement policies, practices, and systems that help the business scale while managing risk and improving efficiency

- Develop procurement processes, systems, and purchase controls to support compliance, increase policy adoption, and improve operational efficiency across teams

- Partner with internal stakeholders, external auditors, and advisors to improve procurement, negotiation, audit, and accounting processes

- Build strong cross-functional relationships to understand business needs, improve the team member experience, and ensure procurement programs deliver value

- Lead vendor negotiation strategy and support negotiations to achieve stronger pricing, favorable terms, and measurable business value

- Build an AI-first procurement function , actively identifying where automation, AI tooling, and modern workflows can replace manual work, reduce cycle times, and free the team to focus on higher-value decisions

- Define team KPIs, identify root causes behind performance gaps, and lead improvement plans that increase procurement efficiency and team performance

- Lead and develop the procurement team to improve accountability, strengthen performance, and support professional growth in alignment with GitLab's values

## Requirements

- Significant experience in procurement within a technology company, including experience leading procurement teams

- A strong track record of building procurement strategies, operating models, and controls that support growth and consistency

- Good judgment grounded in industry knowledge, practical experience, and an awareness of business tradeoffs

- The ability to assess broad stakeholder needs and adapt to current and emerging policies, practices, trends, and business requirements

- Strong operational skills with experience improving procure-to-pay processes for speed, consistency, and quality

- Experience developing vendor negotiation strategies and managing supplier relationships with a focus on business value

- An outcomes-focused leadership style with experience setting goals, improving team performance, and helping others grow

- The ability to create solutions that meet current business needs while building a foundation for future scale in an asynchronous, cross-functional environment

## Benefits

- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- procurement strategy
- operational efficiency
- risk management
- vendor negotiation
- AI-first procurement

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