From the listing
About the role
DuckDuckGo is the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD with millions using its browser, search engine, and subscription services.
The Partnerships team sources, negotiates, and manages external relationships behind DuckDuckGo's products, including AI model and cloud infrastructure providers, distribution, and monetization partners. The team also handles a steady stream of vendor deals for the software, tooling, and service contracts that keeps the company running.
We are seeking a well-established, independent Procurement Advisor Practice to advise the partnerships team in DuckDuckGo's vendor selection, procurement, and negotiations. The practice will provide counsel on needs scoping, vendor identification, price negotiation strategies, and guidance on proposed terms.
What you'll do
- Advise the partnerships team in vendor selection, procurement, and negotiations.
- Provide counsel on needs scoping and vendor identification.
- Develop price negotiation strategies and provide benchmarks.
- Provide guidance on proposed terms including order forms, MSAs, and DPA terms.
- Advise on many small deals in parallel, each with a different internal owner.
- Work across the client organization including legal, security, finance, product, and engineering.
- Navigate data handling and security issues with clients and vendors.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years advisory practice in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management with a focus on software and SaaS.
- Well-established approach to commercial and contractual details and vendor comparison methodologies.
- Capacity to advise 3 to 5 deals per month (estimated 15-20 hours per week).
- Proven track record of building trust quickly and working asynchronously across multiple time zones.
- Established business entity or registered sole proprietorship with other current clients and professional liability insurance.
- Practice must be located in the US.
- Personnel assigned to the engagement must have passed a background check.
From the company page
DuckDuckGo benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, and whenever.”
Pulled from their careers page · verified by Atlas
The hot takeJeff's read on DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo has the only perfect score in our database, and is THE prototype for what we look for in a work-from-anywhere company. Well, not JUST a WFA company, but ANY company. Here's the core tenets we look for:
- Clear prioritization of working from anywhere as a business model.
- Clear expression of trust and empowerment for employees.
- Understanding that output > location or hours.
- Transparent perk package.
- Transparent salary offering per role.
- Emphasis of employees over mission statement.