Director of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

Strava; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Strava in San Francisco is seeking a Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement to stand up the function from scratch. You’ll design operating model, policy, spend thresholds, and lead negotiations across large enterprise SaaS, with a target savings plan and cross-functional collaboration.

In this hybrid role, you’ll build and lead a procurement team, own a portfolio of major agreements, and partner with Legal, Finance, IT, and Security to drive value while maintaining governance in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience building a procurement or strategic sourcing function.
• Substantial experience negotiating enterprise B2B SaaS and technology agreements, with a demonstrable record of Finance-validated commercial improvement.
• People management experience, including hiring, developing, and retaining team members.
• Fluency translating spend data into a commercial narrative for executive audiences.
• Exposure to public company or pre-IPO purchasing controls, segregation of duties, and audit requirements.
• Confidence using modern tools and systems (e.g., Zip, Ironclad, Slack, Notion, AI) to amplify impact.

Responsibilities

• Stand up the Procurement function, defining the operating model, policy, thresholds, and decision rights that govern how Strava buys.
• Build and lead the team, starting by hiring and developing a Manager, Procurement Operations, and shaping how the function grows from there.
• Own a named portfolio of our largest agreements, leading negotiations personally and holding accountability for commercial outcomes.
• Carry a hard savings target, with a baseline methodology agreed with FP&A.
• Establish renewal calendar discipline across the portfolio, engaging early enough on major agreements to create genuine leverage.
• Develop a negotiation playbook, benchmarking approach, and escalation criteria.
• Partner with Legal on contracting, Finance on budget and savings validation, and IT and Security on vendor review, keeping all tracks running in parallel rather than in series.
• Drive vendor rationalization across the long tail, identifying overlap, underused licenses, and consolidation opportunities.
• Give leadership clear, credible visibility into what we spend, with whom, and what we’re getting for it.

Skills

Builder mindset

Commercial rigor

Judgment under pressure

Collaborative mindset

Proactive issue spotting

Team leadership

Tools

Zip

Ironclad

Slack

Notion

AI

Job description

Strava in San Francisco is seeking a Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement to stand up the function from scratch. You’ll design operating model, policy, spend thresholds, and lead negotiations across large enterprise SaaS, with a target savings plan and cross-functional collaboration.

In this hybrid role, you’ll build and lead a procurement team, own a portfolio of major agreements, and partner with Legal, Finance, IT, and Security to drive value while maintaining governance in a