Sourcing Analyst

The Sourcing Analyst – Services is part of Coinbase’s Source to Pay (S2P) organization within the Finance team. The team manages Coinbase’s third‑party services ecosystem across categories such as CX BPO marketing and media professional services and corporate functions (Finance People Compliance).

In this role you support the Strategic Sourcing – Services team by running structured sourcing events negotiating commercial terms and maintaining strong vendor relationships that drive savings reduce risk and enable Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom in the world. This position is ideal for an analytically minded detail‑oriented sourcing professional who enjoys a fast‑paced async‑first environment and wants to grow their career in services sourcing at Coinbase.

What you’ll be doing:

Strategic sourcing 

• Lead and support end‑to‑end sourcing for services engagements (e.g. CX BPO consulting marketing agencies people/benefits compliance and other shared services) from intake in Zip through RFx evaluation negotiation and contract execution.
• Partner with internal requesters to clarify scope business requirements timelines and success metrics for each engagement.

Contracting negotiation and risk mitigation

• Support a high volume of contracts (40+ per month) in an async culture while maintaining a strong Customer Focus for internal stakeholders.
• Review and negotiate commercial terms (e.g. pricing SLAs renewals termination usage tiers) with vendors partnering closely with Legal Security/TPRM P2P and business stakeholders to reduce financial legal and operational risk for Coinbase.
• Serve as an external‑facing representative of Coinbase in vendor communications reinforcing our expectations for service quality data protection and compliance with Coinbase purchasing policies.

Analysis savings and category management

• Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis on vendor proposals pricing models and spend/usage data to support award recommendations and category strategies for Services.
• Contribute to spend management initiatives focused on savings process efficiency supplier consolidation risk reduction and improved transparency and control of expenditures.
• Help maintain vendor tiering/segmentation and category plans for Services including views of top vendors concentration pipeline and savings tracking.

Operational excellence and tools

• Use Zip Ironclad and Google Workspace to manage sourcing workflows contracts and documentation ensuring data quality auditability and adherence to S2P SLAs.
• Keep sourcing Desktop Procedures (DTPs) playbooks and templates for Services current accurate and easy for stakeholders and BPO partners to follow; proactively identify and close documentation gaps.
• Collaborate with BPO partners to balance volume improve cycle times and maintain a consistent stakeholder experience.

Stakeholder partnership and communication

• Build trusted relationships with cross‑functional partners in Finance CX Marketing People Legal Security/TPRM P2P and Outsourcing helping them navigate S2P processes and understand sourcing trade‑offs.
• Communicate clearly and asynchronously (Slack Docs Sheets) to provide status updates surface risks and explain the impact of sourcing decisions to business partners and leadership.

What we look for in you:

• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g. LibreChat Gemini Glean) in daily workflows continuously learn as tools evolve and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and measurably improve efficiency cost and quality. At the L4 level brings hands‑on experience using AI to draft sourcing artifacts (e.g. RFx documents vendor analyses and contract redlines) analyze spend and proposal data and streamline stakeholder updates and shows clear enthusiasm for experimenting with new AI capabilities and sharing best practices with the broader S2P and Finance teams.

 Education and background

• BA/BS degree preferably with an analytical focus (e.g. Business Economics Accounting Engineering or similar fields).
• 2–4 years of relevant experience in strategic sourcing procurement consulting operations or related roles; experience with services categories (BPO marketing professional services corporate services) is strongly preferred.

Skills and expertise

• Proven ability to operate in a fast‑paced high‑volume environment with strong attention to detail managing multiple requests and stakeholders at once.
• Strong quantitative skills and a data‑guided approach to problem solving; experience analyzing spend proposals and usage data to inform sourcing strategy and vendor selection.
• Comfort working with contracts and commercial terms and partnering with Legal on redlines for services agreements SOWs and order forms.
• Proficiency with modern productivity tools (e.g. Google Workspace) and openness to learning S2P tools such as Zip and Ironclad.

Ways of working and culture alignment

• Demonstrated ability to Act Like an Owner: you proactively identify issues propose solutions and drive them through to resolution with limited direction.
• Strong Clear Communication skills in an async‑first culture; you structure your thinking write clearly and tailor communication to the audience.
• Commitment to Efficient Execution and Customer Focus — you balance speed and quality respect SLAs and keep internal stakeholders informed and supported.
• Genuine interest in Coinbase’s mission and the future of digital currency; ideally you are already a Coinbase user or are excited to become one.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g. LibreChat Gemini Glean) in daily workflows continuously learn as tools evolve and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency cost and quality

Nice to haves:

• Direct experience sourcing or managing services vendors such as CX BPO providers marketing/creative agencies consulting firms benefits/HR providers or audit/compliance partners.
• Familiarity with S2P and spend‑management tools (e.g. Zip Ironclad Navan or similar platforms).
• Experience in high‑growth tech fintech or crypto environments where processes and playbooks are evolving and/or exposure to third‑party risk management security/privacy reviews or other regulated environments.

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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