Head of Procurement

• Develop and execute comprehensive global procurement strategies across all spend categories including drilling services, geophysical surveys, laboratory services, exploration equipment, technology solutions, professional services, and operational supplies.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers across multiple jurisdictions, establishing preferred vendor programs and long-term partnerships that support KoBold's exploration timeline requirements and cost optimization goals.
• Design and implement comprehensive supplier qualification and due diligence processes, including financial stability assessments, safety record evaluations, environmental compliance verification, and ethical business practice reviews.
• Establish comprehensive procurement policies, procedures, and governance frameworks that can be applied consistently across KoBold's global operations while accommodating local regulatory requirements and accomplishing business goals.

This role supports KoBold's mission to use AI and novel sensors for mineral exploration, helping find critical metals like copper and lithium more efficiently for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers, thereby reducing the environmental and capital costs of mining.

• At least 7 years of strategic procurement experience with demonstrated progression in responsibility and scope.
• Demonstrated experience with should-cost modeling, bottom-up cost analysis, and economic modeling of procured goods and services.
• Mining, energy, industrial, or technology sector experience strongly preferred.
• Proven track record of building procurement functions from the ground up or leading significant procurement transformations.

Salary range of $125,000 - $225,000, plus equity and benefits including 401k matching. This is a full-time, exempt position.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside novel sensors—to guide decisions on exploration programs, aiming to find copper, lithium, and other metals more efficiently for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.