Procurement Operations Architect (AI-Driven)

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 139,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Life Insurance

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Maven Clinic

Free One Medical

Dependent Care FSA

Job summary

Legora, a NY-based AI-native legal workspace, is hiring its first dedicated Procurement hire in New York to design and optimize intake-to-PO processes. You will own the end-to-end workflow, partner with Finance, Legal, Security, and IT, and drive vendor onboarding, approvals, and catalog-based purchasing.

You will lead AI-enhanced procurement initiatives, ensure data integrity with AP, and build dashboards to tell the spend story to leadership. This is a high-impact role shaping Legora’s growth.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in procurement ops or analytic ops at a high-growth tech company.
• Direct experience building procurement processes from zero: intake, approvals, vendor onboarding.
• Familiarity with Ramp, Ironclad, Zip, NetSuite or similar, with automation bias.
• Comfort with AI tools and evaluating outputs for reliability.
• Strong business judgement for exceptions and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and launch intake-to-procure processes including intake triage, approvals, vendor onboarding, PO creation and fast-buy paths.
• Identify and implement AI, automation, and modern tooling to improve procurement; verify output and establish checks.
• Partner with Accounts Payable to ensure data quality and PO accuracy, troubleshoot upstream issues.
• Provide clear guidance on procurement tools, policy, and compliance to internal teams and vendors.
• Own dashboards and reports tracking procurement performance and spend narratives for leadership.
• Coordinate security, privacy, and legal diligence to keep reviews on a timeline.
• Lead cross-functional change management and fold acquired vendors into one system.
• Build an enablement layer: write playbooks, create a policy library, and record short how-to videos.

Skills

Procurement operations

Intake-to-PO

AI tooling

Vendor onboarding

AP and payment processes

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Tools

Ramp

Ironclad

Zip

NetSuite

Job description

Legora, a NY-based AI-native legal workspace, is hiring its first dedicated Procurement hire in New York to design and optimize intake-to-PO processes. You will own the end-to-end workflow, partner with Finance, Legal, Security, and IT, and drive vendor onboarding, approvals, and catalog-based purchasing.

You will lead AI-enhanced procurement initiatives, ensure data integrity with AP, and build dashboards to tell the spend story to leadership. This is a high-impact role shaping Legora’s growth.