operations
Posted 3 weeks agoStrategic Sourcing & Procurement
at Mercor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- requirements Analytics, Governance & Stakeholder Partnership - Build a spend analytics function: track vendor spend, identify savings opportunities through benchmarking and competitive bids, and develop vendor scorecards and renewal calendars - Define purchasing policies and approval workflows; ensure all procurement activities are audit-ready - Serve as the primary procurement partner to Finance, Legal, Engineering, and Operations WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 6–8+ years in strategic sourcing, procurement, or
Requirements
- ABOUT MERCOR Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- You’ll own how we source and manage vendors across the full stack — standard SaaS, LLM API agreements, AWS compute, and technical contracts with reinforcement learning-as-a-service providers like Applied Compute.
- The ideal candidate combines procurement expertise with technical fluency — you can run an RFP and negotiate an enterprise deal, but you also understand token economics, cloud pricing structures, and how ML teams actually build.
- You have an AI-first mindset and are energized by zero-to-one environments.
- Experience managing cloud vendor relationships (AWS preferred) and familiarity with EDPs, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans - Analytical fluency: spend modeling, cost-per-unit economics, strong Excel/SQL skills a plus - An AI-first mindset and a builder’s instinct — comfortable starting from a blank slate and iterating quickly BONUS POINTS -
Benefits
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.