Procurement Manager

This role can be located fully remote anywhere in the world. Compensation will be market rate specific to the candidate's country of residence.

Must have a professional working proficiency/fluency of Mandarin to communicate with our global team.

Who We Are

Atlas Cloud is a rapidly growing AI infrastructure and platform company that helps developers and enterprises build, deploy, and scale AI applications. Our platform provides unified access to advanced AI models and GPU-powered infrastructure through flexible, usage-based pricing. As customer adoption and transaction volumes grow, we are building the financial and operational foundation needed to support a scalable, data-driven, and globally competitive business.

About the Role

The Procurement Manager will own procurement and strategic sourcing across Atlas Cloud, with an initial focus on technology, infrastructure, and operational purchasing.

This is a hands-on builder role. You will establish procurement processes, negotiate commercial agreements, evaluate suppliers, and help the company make informed purchasing decisions without slowing down execution. You will work closely with Finance, Engineering, Infrastructure, and business leadership to balance cost, performance, risk, and delivery requirements.

The right person is commercially sharp, highly organized, comfortable navigating technical requirements, and able to operate effectively in an evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

• Lead sourcing and purchasing for technology, infrastructure, equipment, software, professional services, and other business-critical needs.
• Support procurement involving access agreements with AI model providers for both open-weight and closed-weight foundation models, assessing model capabilities, licensing terms, and pricing structures to secure optimal inference access arrangements. Maintain working knowledge of underlying hardware infrastructure (GPUs, TPUs, accelerators) to evaluate total cost of ownership and performance benchmarks across deployment environments.
• Develop sourcing strategies based on cost, capacity, technical requirements, delivery timelines, supplier availability, and business risk.
• Identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers that can support Atlas Cloud’s technical and operational requirements.
• Lead competitive bidding, requests for proposals, pricing comparisons, and supplier-selection processes.
• Partner with technical stakeholders to translate business and engineering requirements into clear procurement specifications.

Commercial Negotiations

• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, service levels, warranties, renewal provisions, volume commitments, and other commercial terms.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to review contracts and ensure agreements appropriately address commercial, operational, security, and compliance risks.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, improved terms, supplier consolidation, and stronger purchasing leverage.
• Maintain visibility into contractual commitments, renewals, minimum-spend requirements, and termination deadlines.

Supplier and Risk Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and strategic partners.
• Monitor supplier performance against pricing, quality, delivery, service-level, and reliability expectations.
• Identify supply-chain risks and develop contingency plans for critical equipment, capacity, and services.
• Conduct appropriate supplier diligence in partnership with Legal, Finance, Security, and Compliance.
• Address supplier performance issues and lead escalations when commitments are not met.

Procurement Operations

• Build scalable procurement policies, approval workflows, purchasing controls, and documentation standards.
• Establish a centralized system for purchase requests, contracts, supplier records, renewals, and approvals.
• Ensure purchases are properly authorized, documented, and aligned with budgets.
• Partner with Finance on purchase orders, invoicing, payment schedules, accruals, and procurement forecasting.
• Develop procurement reporting that tracks spending, savings, supplier performance, contract exposure, and upcoming renewals.
• Help implement and improve procurement technology, tools, and systems as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply-chain management, vendor management, or a related function.
• Ability to understand and speak Mandarin
• Experience supporting a technology, cloud infrastructure, data center, hardware, telecommunications, or high-growth company.
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements and improving supplier terms.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, contract lifecycles, competitive bidding, and supplier management.
• Ability to evaluate purchasing decisions across cost, quality, capacity, delivery, technical performance, and risk.
• Strong analytical skills with experience developing cost comparisons, spend analyses, forecasts, and recommendations.
• Ability to understand technical requirements and communicate effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Strong project-management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and a strong sense of ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Established network of relationships across a diverse range of AI model providers and hardware vendors — including frontier labs, open-weight model publishers, inference API platforms, and GPU/accelerator manufacturers.
• Experience procuring GPUs, servers, networking equipment, storage, colocation services, data center capacity, or cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, or GPU-based workloads.
• Experience building or improving a procurement function within a scaling organization.
• Experience negotiating high-value, multi-year, or capacity-based agreements.
• Familiarity with procurement platforms, contract-management systems, ERP tools, and purchase-order workflows.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply-chain management, finance, business, engineering, or a related field.

A Note to Recruiting Agencies

AtlasCloud is managing this search directly and is not seeking external recruiting or staffing support for this position. Please do not submit unsolicited candidates or contact our team regarding recruiting services for this role. We appreciate your understanding.

Pay: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Do you have a working proficiency/fluency of Mandarin?
• What is your work eligibility and authorization for the country in which you reside?

Work Location: Remote