This role suits an experienced product manager who wants to build AI-powered procurement solutions in San Francisco. Staff Product Manager - Procurement AI is a full-time position based in San Francisco, focused on scaling contract intelligence and enterprise workflows.
Role Overview
Ironclad seeks a product professional to lead the next generation of artificial intelligence tools for procurement operations. The position involves owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for supplier intelligence, obligations, renewals, amendments, and risk insights. The person in this role will collaborate directly with engineering, design, applied AI, data, and go-to-market teams to transform enterprise contracts into actionable workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for a meaningful part of Ironclad's procurement AI product area.
Develop a deep understanding of procurement and legal workflows, including intake, supplier and contract management, obligations, renewals, amendments, risk review, and negotiation preparation.
Identify high-value opportunities where contract intelligence and AI can help procurement teams save time, prevent leakage, reduce risk, and gain leverage.
Shape experiences that connect structured contract data with actionable workflows, such as supplier relationship views and contract-family intelligence.
Partner with engineering, applied AI, data, and design to define the right product architecture, user experience, data requirements, and human approval points.
Define metrics for AI quality in production, covering accuracy, coverage, latency, task success, user acceptance, trust, and business value.
Build feedback loops that let users review, accept, reject, and improve AI-generated insights and actions.
Lead customer discovery, design-partner programs, usability testing, and product validation with procurement, legal, finance, and operations teams.
Partner with GTM, Solutions, Sales, and Customer Success on positioning, launches, enablement, adoption, and value realization.
Requirements
Minimum of 5 years of product management experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS, workflow products, procurement technology, legal technology, or adjacent business systems.
A track record of owning products end to end, from customer discovery and strategy through launch, adoption, and iteration.
Deep familiarity with procurement, sourcing, supplier management, contract lifecycle management, legal operations, or a closely related domain.
Strong customer empathy and the ability to earn credibility with procurement leaders, lawyers, operators, and technical partners.
Practical fluency with AI product development, including model capabilities and limitations, evaluation, data quality, retrieval or grounding, feedback loops, and human-in-the-loop controls.
Strong quantitative judgment and comfort defining success metrics, analyzing product behavior, and making tradeoffs using evidence.
High ownership, sound product judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.
Nice to Have
Experience building procurement or spend-management products, including procure-to-pay, sourcing, supplier intelligence, contract intelligence, or procurement orchestration.
Experience with legal technology, CLM, contract negotiation, obligations, renewals, amendments, or compliance workflows.
Experience with enterprise integrations such as SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Zip, Salesforce, or downstream finance and procurement systems.
Experience shipping agentic workflows or AI products that can recommend, draft, or take action with user approval.
Familiarity with enterprise data models, entity resolution, contract families, knowledge graphs, structured extraction, or document intelligence.
Experience making build-versus-buy or vendor-partner decisions for AI, data, or workflow capabilities.
Experience launching products in a highly regulated, high-trust, or document-heavy environment.
Skills and Tools
Enterprise SaaS frameworks
Procurement and Legal Tech systems
AI product development and evaluation
Data retrieval and grounding models
Human-in-the-loop controls
Enterprise integrations (SAP, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Zip, Salesforce)
Salary and Benefits
Base salary range of $210,000 to $255,000 per year
Company bonus offerings
Equity offerings
About the Company
Ironclad builds contract lifecycle management solutions backed by a dataset of over 2 billion contracts. Recognized as a leader by the Forrester Wave, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Forbes AI 50, and Fast Company, the company is backed by investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton.
How to Apply
Apply directly on the official Ironclad careers page.
