The posting
Who we are:
Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.
Our culture:
- We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
- We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.
- We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you're located, and you'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in. So while we love the "coffee shop today, mountains tomorrow" life, this isn't a passport-optional, work-from-anywhere-on-Earth kind of remote - think flexible within your country, not borderless.
Location:
- Remote - US/Canada
About the Role
We’re looking for a Procurement Manager to be our first in-house buyer, supporting purchasing across every team including software and IT, marketing and events, travel and employee onboarding, professional services, and more. You’ll be the point of contact for moving sourcing forward and getting deals over the line: managing vendor relationships, owning negotiations, tracking renewals, guiding stakeholders through purchasing decisions, and making sure we buy the right tools and services at the right price.
You’ll work closely with finance, IT, legal, and business leaders in a fast-paced environment where strong judgment and relationship management are essential. You will own the full vendor lifecycle and balance business needs, commercial terms, vendor risk, and long-term partnership health.
Who you are:
- Deeply experienced in procurement, vendor management, and commercial negotiation in a fast-moving environment.
- A strong negotiator who creates leverage and holds firm on price and terms (payment terms, ramp, and renewal protection) while making practical trade-offs that benefit the company.
- A relationship developer who helps build long-term partners out of our vendors
- An effective communicator who guides stakeholders through sourcing decisions, aligns them on options and strategy, and keeps purchasing disciplined without slowing teams down.
- Comfortable buying across many categories and departments — software, marketing and events, travel, professional services — and juggling a broad vendor portfolio at once.
- Focused on driving savings and better terms by cutting waste, not just price: consolidating redundant tools and reclaiming unused licenses, and rigorously comparing options in the market.
- Organized and accurate. Tracks contract details, owns renewals, and follows-through.
- Treat vendor risk as part of the deal, coordinating security, data-privacy (DPA), and liability review with Security and Legal.
- A builder — comfortable creating a process where none exists and willing to do the hands-on work as our first procurement hire.
What you'll need:
- 5+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or commercial negotiations, ideally in-house at a high-growth technology or software company.
- Proven track record independently owning vendor negotiations, contract management, and renewal tracking across multiple functions and spend categories (e.g., software/SaaS, marketing and events, travel, professional services).
- Experience evaluating vendors competitively and negotiating favorable pricing and terms.
- Comfort influencing stakeholders, pushing back when needed, and partnering cross-functionally to keep purchasing disciplined.
- Track record of building the procurement process from the ground up — intake/PO workflows, contract and renewal tracking, spend visibility and choosing lightweight tooling (e.g., a spend-management or CLM platform) in partnership with Finance and Legal.
- Experience coordinating vendor security and data privacy reviews (SOC 2, DPAs) and reviewing core contract risk terms (indemnification, liability caps, insurance) with Legal/Security.
- Excellent executive-level written communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
Benefits we offer:
- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend
Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.
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