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# Procurement Manager at Sardine

- **Company:** Sardine
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $145k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/1d728986-b1da-47dc-864d-906f44564d9c

## Job description

Who we are:

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our culture:

- We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere
- We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
- We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

Location:

- Remote - US/Canada
- From Home / Beach / Mountain / Cafe / Anywhere!
- We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. You can find your productive zone and work from there.

## About the Role

We’re looking for a Procurement Manager to be our first in-house buyer, supporting purchasing across every team including software and IT, marketing and events, travel and employee onboarding, professional services, and more. You’ll be the point of contact for moving sourcing forward and getting deals over the line: managing vendor relationships, owning negotiations, tracking renewals, guiding stakeholders through purchasing decisions, and making sure we buy the right tools and services at the right price.

You’ll work closely with finance, IT, legal, and business leaders in a fast-paced environment where strong judgment and relationship management are essential. You will own the full vendor lifecycle and balance business needs, commercial terms, vendor risk, and long-term partnership health.

Who you are:

- Deeply experienced in procurement, vendor management, and commercial negotiation in a fast-moving environment.
- A strong negotiator who creates leverage and holds firm on price and terms (payment terms, ramp, and renewal protection) while making practical trade-offs that benefit the company.
- A relationship developer who helps build long-term partners out of our vendors
- An effective communicator who guides stakeholders through sourcing decisions, aligns them on options and strategy, and keeps purchasing disciplined without slowing teams down.
- Comfortable buying across many categories and departments — software, marketing and events, travel, professional services — and juggling a broad vendor portfolio at once.
- Focused on driving savings and better terms by cutting waste, not just price: consolidating redundant tools and reclaiming unused licenses, and rigorously comparing options in the market.
- Organized and accurate. Tracks contract details, owns renewals, and follows-through.
- Treat vendor risk as part of the deal, coordinating security, data-privacy (DPA), and liability review with Security and Legal.
- A builder — comfortable creating a process where none exists and willing to do the hands-on work as our first procurement hire.

What you'll need:

- 5+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or commercial negotiations, ideally in-house at a high-growth technology or software company.
- Proven track record independently owning vendor negotiations, contract management, and renewal tracking across multiple functions and spend categories (e.g., software/SaaS, marketing and events, travel, professional services).
- Experience evaluating vendors competitively and negotiating favorable pricing and terms.
- Comfort influencing stakeholders, pushing back when needed, and partnering cross-functionally to keep purchasing disciplined.
- Track record of building the procurement process from the ground up — intake/PO workflows, contract and renewal tracking, spend visibility and choosing lightweight tooling (e.g., a spend-management or CLM platform) in partnership with Finance and Legal.
- Experience coordinating vendor security and data privacy reviews (SOC 2, DPAs) and reviewing core contract risk terms (indemnification, liability caps, insurance) with Legal/Security.
- Excellent executive-level written communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills.

Benefits we offer:

- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as an applicant and Sardine employee, please visit our Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice https://www.sardine.ai/applicant-and-worker-privacy-notice.

## About Sardine

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sardine provides an agentic risk platform that uses AI to help banks, fintechs, and merchants detect fraud, automate AML compliance, and fight financial crime from a single unified system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (has raised $170 million in funding)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; specific headquarters city not publicly disclosed in available sources
- **Founded**: Year not publicly available in the provided sources
- **Founders**: Soups Ranjan (CEO, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Fraud prevention, AML compliance, financial crime detection, risk intelligence, cybersecurity
- **Target Customers**: B2B – banks, fintechs, marketplaces, merchants (enterprise and mid-market)
- **Mission or Purpose**: Help teams stop fraud earlier, protect customers better, and move with confidence as the financial system evolves – using AI that is transparent, explainable, and works alongside human judgment.

## Products & Services
- **Fraud Prevention**: Real-time, behavior-based fraud detection using device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and proprietary signals to catch scams and fraud without adding friction.
- **AML Compliance**: Automated KYC/AML alert reviews, sanctions screening, PEP exposure, adverse media monitoring, and transaction monitoring to detect money laundering and mule activity.
- **Agentic AML Ops & Agentic Fraud Ops**: AI agents that automate data analysis, alert reviews, and investigations, helping risk teams become 10x more effective.
- **Identity Verification (KYC/KYB)**: Global identity verification for consumers and businesses, including synthetic ID detection, deepfake prevention, and business beneficial owner authentication.
- **Case Management**: Unified workspace to review alerts, conduct investigations, and resolve cases with audit-ready outputs.
- **Customer Risk Rating**: Tiers customers by risk level to support CDD and ongoing compliance.
- **Credit Underwriting**: Build, test, and deploy credit models without engineering support.
- **Bank Verification**: Validate bank account ownership and risk levels in real-time.
- **Sonar Consortium Network**: Shared anonymized risk intelligence across fintech, banking, and commerce to expose fraud patterns no single organization can see alone.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $170 million (from respected investors, not all named in sources)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully disclosed in provided sources; the $170M raise included "some of the world’s most respected investors"
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 200+ spanning 20+ countries; enterprise customers; over 1 billion devices profiled; 8 trillion payments screened; remote-first model enabling global talent acquisition

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform** that combines fraud prevention, AML compliance, identity, and transaction monitoring – replacing dozens of disconnected tools.
- **AI that is transparent and explainable**, designed to augment human judgment, not replace it.
- **Agentic approach** automates repetitive risk operations, freeing analysts for higher-value work.
- **Behavior-infused intelligence** (device, behavioral biometrics) catches fraud early that rule-based systems miss.
- **Sonar consortium network** creates a network effect – the more customers, the stronger the risk intelligence.
- **Focus on financial crime** holistically rather than siloed fraud or compliance.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the "agentic risk platform" to automate financial crime operations end-to-end.
- Expand consortium intelligence to provide earlier visibility into mule networks and repeat abusers.
- Deepen partnerships with banks, fintechs, and merchants to embed risk intelligence at every stage of the customer journey.
- Maintain a remote-first, global team to attract top talent across 20+ countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from anywhere; team spans 20+ countries.
- **Generous compensation**: Competitive cash and equity grants, with early exercise and extended post-separation exercise window (up to 4 years vs. standard 90 days).
- **Benefits**: 100% health, dental, and vision for employees (60% for dependents), 401(k) with 4% match, flexible PTO (uncapped), year-end break, federal holidays.
- **Perks**: Home office setup (MacBook + stipend), monthly DoorDash/gym/education stipends, meals and fitness allowances.
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, collaborative, grounded in respect for deep work. Emphasis on outcomes, not optics. Team includes operators, engineers, and risk experts who have built systems at scale.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on security, machine learning, and building high-stakes systems; transparent AI meant to empower risk teams.

## Sources
1. [sardine.ai/careers](https://www.sardine.ai/careers)
2. [sardine.ai/about](https://www.sardine.ai/about)
3. [sardine.ai/product](https://www.sardine.ai/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/sardineai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardineai)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/sardine](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sardine)

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