Head of Procurement

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.

• Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.

• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.

• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

• Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.

• Competitive compensation.

We are looking for a Procurement leader to build Harvey’s procurement function. You will be responsible for designing and executing all aspects of our internal Procurement approach. Tactically, you will be responsible for managing/optimizing our procurement intake and approval process, negotiating contracts with vendors, and managing renewals and vendor relationships. More broadly, you will be responsible for defining how we do Procurement internally. You will be a team of one and roll up your sleeves to update our overall process and manage the day-to-day; eventually you will build the procurement team as needed. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in procurement, excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills, and a keen eye for detail.

• Process Improvement and Implementation. Assess current Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflows and implement best practices and automation to drive better outcomes and efficiency.

• Negotiations. Negotiate agreements directly with vendors.

• Procurement Operations. Manage the procurement process -- monitoring requests and approvals, acting as the liaison between our team and vendors.

• Vendor Management. Monitoring and acting on renewals, managing vendor relationships, identifying redundant vendors

• Reporting and Analytics. Implement and monitor procurement KPIs and continuously improve purchasing efficiency and quality

• 7+ years of experience in procurement, preferably in a high-growth technology company

• Track record building or overhauling procurement-to-pay processes solo or in very small teams

• Deep negotiation expertise and comfort redlining contracts directly with Legal

• Strong understanding of modern procurement tooling and best practices

• Exceptional project-management and relationship-building chops; able to influence without authority across functions. Proven ability to work successfully in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• [Nice to have] Experience integrating modern AI tools into Procurement workflows

Compensation Range:

$200,000 - $250,000 USD

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