[Hiring] Principal, Procurement @Monarch Money

Role Description

Monarch is seeking a Principal, Procurement to join our Finance team during a period of rapid growth. Reporting to the Head of Operations and Finance, you will own and mature our existing procurement program, lead strategic sourcing and negotiations, and build a proactive approach to vendor and technology-spend management.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with significant company-wide impact. You will partner closely with Finance, Engineering, Legal, Security, IT, People, and business leaders to help Monarch make better purchasing decisions, improve vendor economics, and ensure our technology spend scales efficiently.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and continuously improve Monarch’s company-wide procurement process, including system administration for Zip, ensuring it remains efficient, scalable, and easy for teams to navigate.
• Lead strategic sourcing and negotiations for material vendors, using market intelligence, usage data, and business context to improve pricing, terms, commitments, and overall value.
• Build a proactive vendor-management program that provides clear visibility into contracts, spend, ownership, renewals, utilization, performance, and consolidation opportunities.
• Partner with Finance, Engineering, and business leaders to improve the commercial economics of Monarch’s SaaS, cloud, data, AI, and other technology spend.
• Drive adoption through clear policies, self-service resources, and employee education developed with People, while using AI and automation to make procurement faster and more proactive.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or technology-spend management, including personal ownership of material negotiations.
• Demonstrated experience owning and meaningfully improving procurement processes in a high-growth technology company, ideally within B2C, subscription, SaaS, or fintech.
• Hands-on experience administering a procurement-orchestration or comparable workflow platform, including configuring intake, conditional logic, approval routing, permissions, and reporting.
• Experience sourcing and negotiating technology spend, including SaaS, cloud infrastructure, data, AI, or other consumption-based vendor models.
• Experience partnering with Finance and Engineering to manage cloud or other usage-based technology spend and translate cost and usage insights into commercial decisions.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgment, including the ability to connect spend and utilization data to business value and unit economics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence leaders, challenge requests constructively, create clear employee guidance, and drive cross-functional decisions without formal authority.
• A proactive, hands-on operating style and the ability to manage multiple priorities, move between strategy and execution, and bring clear recommendations to ambiguous decisions.
• Demonstrated AI fluency: You use AI regularly in your work, have a clear point of view on where it helps and where it doesn’t, and continuously raise your own bar. You are excited to redesign procurement workflows around AI and automation—not just use AI to complete existing tasks faster.

Requirements

• Direct experience administering Zip or a comparable procurement-orchestration platform.
• Familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud cost structures, committed-use agreements, cloud cost allocation, or cloud-cost-management tooling.
• Experience procuring AI models, APIs, financial-data infrastructure, or other high-volume usage-based services.
• Experience in fintech, consumer subscription, financial services, or another regulated technology environment.
• Familiarity with security, privacy, legal, and third-party risk-review processes.

Benefits

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company.
• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).
• Unlimited PTO.
• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!