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Manage a team to optimize procurement processes and vendor value while collaborating cross-functionally and providing training. | Requires 5+ years procurement experience with people management and SaaS company exposure, plus strong data and communication skills. | About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com. About the Operational Finance Team The Operational Finance Team is responsible for a variety of tasks that are instrumental in keeping the business running on a day to day basis. There are five teams within the Operational Finance Function each serve a specific purpose to the company: Accounting and Accounts Payable - Accurately records all vendor related transactions and keeps our vendors paid, Billing Team - provisions all customers access to mixpanel and ensure proper revenue recognition, Collection Team - records all customer payments and ensures we get paid on time, Payroll - prepares payrolls for all employees world wide and Deal Desk - collaborates with sales to ensure streamlined and compliant quoting process. The team is split between the Bay Area, London, Bangalore and Barcelona. About the Role The Procurement Enablement Lead will lead the procurement program at Mixpanel. They will manage a team of two, and will be responsible for organizational spend, maximizing vendor value, optimizing procurement processes, minimizing risk, and assisting business partners throughout the organization with the procurement of third-party tools and services. This role requires a breadth of experience and both strategic and operational skills, along with proven people-management capability. A successful candidate will enjoy building and developing a team while using their skillset to streamline operations, enhance processes, and continuously support and educate others to develop a world-class procurement program. Responsibilities Manage and develop a team of two, coaching them through skill-building, career growth, and day-to-day performance while fostering a culture of shared ownership and high standards. Lead execution of complex procurement projects across functions, setting clear priorities and anticipating challenges before they become blockers. Collaborate cross-functionally with key internal teams such as FP&A, Security, IT and Legal on purchasing processes and improvements, building productive relationships with adjacent teams and resolving misalignments directly. Build strategic relationships with key vendors and technology partners in order to leverage strategic discounts and maximize value. Promote a culture of innovation on the team by identifying opportunities to improve outcomes through better processes and targeted use of AI and emerging tools, and lead initiatives to implement procurement process improvements. Provide procurement process training for Mixpanel employees involved with procurement of products and services. Shape and communicate a compelling vision for the procurement team that contributes to Operational Finance goals, anticipating team-level needs and emerging trends, and clearly communicating the rationale behind key decisions. We're Looking For Someone Who Has 5+ years of work experience as a Procurement Specialist or Procurement Manager, including experience managing or directly leading others. Extensive experience working with for SaaS companies and vendors. Experience with Procurement improvement initiatives. Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgment. Experience with managing and mitigating risks. Strong data management and analytics skills - you have the ability to gather, clean and interpret data. Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships both internally and externally. Effective communicator as you will need to collaborate with all functions of the business and guide a team through change with clarity and empathy. A track record of coaching and developing team members, managing performance, and building a respectful, high-performing team environment. Adaptability — you understand that change is constant, and you embrace it, and can help your team navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities with confidence. Agility and resilience — you move quickly and encourage continued improvement. Strong work ethic, desire to learn, and a drive to excel. Professional polish - accustomed to and comfortable with presenting to the C suite without extensive coaching and prep (internally and externally). Benefits and Perks Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care Mental Wellness Benefit Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays Enhanced Parental Leave Volunteer Time Off Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break *please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary* Culture Values Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress. Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes. One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone. Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star. Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible. Why choose Mixpanel? We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

Design and develop scalable backend services and infrastructure to accelerate AI agent and LLM functionality development. | Bachelor's degree and 2+ years software engineering experience with hands-on LLM integration and AI-native production systems. | About Mixpanel Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more. About the Team The AI Platform team is a newly formed team at the center of Mixpanel's AI-first analytics vision. With a greenfield charter, we're building the infrastructure that accelerates and transforms AI product development at Mixpanel, both internally and for our customers. We provide the tools to improve AI products, enabling internal teams and customer agents to build things that were previously unimaginable. We build shared infrastructure that is essential for developing AI features with confidence and speed, and that gives every agent the tools, context, and quality guarantees to act autonomously on behalf of users. Some examples of what we are building: Agent Optimization Framework: A system that optimizes AI products for quality, speed, and cost, using metrics from production and evals, given the context of the invocation. AI Agent Integrations and Accessibility: Products and tools that bring the power of Mixpanel to wherever it is most effective for our customers, including a Mixpanel slackbot, MCP, and a public skills library. AI Engine: Services that centralize core AI and LLM functionality at Mixpanel in order to accelerate AI development, compound the value of AI efforts, and provide customers with a consistent experience. Role Overview We are looking for a driven Software Engineer to join our AI Platform team. You will be responsible for building the scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure that accelerates AI agent development. You will be a leader and key contributor in a small, fast paced, newly formed team with a mandate to empower AI development across the company. Responsibilities Platform Architecture: Design and develop the core backend services, APIs, and microservices that enable product teams to easily and securely leverage AI models. Agent Orchestration: Build scalable frameworks and tools to support multi-step agent workflows, including task decomposition, tool invocation, and persistent memory. Evaluation & Reliability: Build robust evaluation systems to continuously measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates, and task success. Operational Excellence: Architect high-performance serving infrastructure with strict guarantees around latency, throughput, cost-efficiency, and error handling. Observability & MLOps: Ensure comprehensive monitoring, structured logging, and distributed tracing across all deployed AI models. Collaboration: Partner with designers, product managers, and other engineers to build self-serve infrastructure that transforms our AI development cycle. Leadership: Advocate for software engineering best practices, conduct thorough design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. We're Looking For Someone Who Has Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience 2+ years of professional software engineering experience Strong full-stack fundamentals: you're comfortable working across frontend, backend, and data layers Excellent debugging and technical investigation skills Strong technical communication, ideally with experience collaborating in an asynchronous remote environment Ability to move fast and iterate in ambiguous environments: you take ownership and focus on delivering value to users Hands on experience integrating and orchestrating LLMs and agents Experience building AI native systems, including iteratively improving and scaling them in production Familiarity with techniques used to optimize AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, vector search engines, context engineering, and prompt engineering. A desire to be on the forefront of leveraging AI to drive product improvement, observability and product analytics at scale. Compensation The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information. Mixpanel Compensation Range $188,000—$254,000 USD Benefits and Perks Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care Mental Wellness Benefit Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays Enhanced Parental Leave Volunteer Time Off Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break *please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary* Culture Values Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress. Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes. One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone. Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star. Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible. Why choose Mixpanel? We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

Build and optimize development lifecycle and manage cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes and observability pipelines. | 3+ years experience with Go, Python, or TypeScript, Kubernetes, cloud providers, and knowledge of AI coding agents. | About Mixpanel Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more. About the DevInfra Team The DevInfra team is Mixpanel’s platform engineering team. Our mission is to be a force multiplier for Mixpanel engineering as a whole. We achieve this by partnering with our engineering teams to build a world-class software development life cycle together. About the Role We are looking for an engineer with a strong track record of solving tooling pain points, automating away toil, and helping teams deliver software faster, more safely, and more reliably. Someone who is energized by supporting their fellow engineers. An engineer who has good taste and leverages AI to great effect without generating slop. Frequent forays into uncharted territory requires our team to be highly adaptable and always ready to learn. We serve as trailblazers for the rest of Mixpanel engineering. Responsibilities We partner with a wide variety of teams to build out their software development lifecycle to be optimized for speed, safety, and reliability. We support teams writing front-end UI code as well as teams maintaining our highly stateful storage systems deep in our stack. We are responsible for deploying AI tools like Claude Code to our entire engineering team. We are building agents into our platform to do things like augment on-call response and automatically one-shot bugs that come through a team’s triage queue. We support systems that ingest more than 1 Trillion user-generated events every month while balancing low end-to-end query latency. Mixpanel queries typically scan more than 1 Quadrillion events over the span of a month. More details in this blog post. Mixpanel runs entirely on Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine. DevInfra is the overall admin for our cloud environment, so we wear many hats. We are responsible for things like Terraform, cost management, networking, and security best practices. We are the overall service owner for Kubernetes. Individual teams are responsible for maintaining and monitoring their own clusters and workloads. We are responsible for setting standards for deployment, observability, and developer experience. We facilitate efforts like Kubernetes version upgrades and helping teams adopt new Google Kubernetes Engine features. Service ownership of our observability pipelines. We have instrumented over 30 million Prometheus metrics time series and use Open Telemetry to ingest over 4 billion distributed tracing spans per month. An example: How We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month. We maintain our GitHub Actions based CI/CD pipelines. We maintain a robust GitHub-native delivery process that empowers teams to self-serve their needs while ensuring safety and reliability. See this blog post for an example. We maintain our devbox system that provisions cloud development environments for individual developers. We procure best in breed SaaS tooling for the rest of engineering. We own our relationship with GitHub, Honeycomb, Chronosphere, Sentry, and more. We run the new engineer onboarding process. If you join us, your first meeting will probably be with us! We're Looking For Someone Who Has 3+ years of industry experience. Experience with at least one of: Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript. Production experience working with Kubernetes. Production experience managing infrastructure in a major cloud provider such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure. Preferably Google Cloud Platform. Knowledgeable about coding agents like Claude Code Bonus Points Experience with observability solutions like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Distributed Tracing for application monitoring and performance analysis. Experience with service mesh. You write excellent docs. Proficient with GitHub Actions and the GitHub ecosystem. Experience building deployment pipelines. We love GitOps! Bazel expertise. Experience with Terraform. Experience with cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems and knowledgeable about security best practices. Experience implementing Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage. Working knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles such as implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs). You ❤️ open source. Compensation The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information. Mixpanel Compensation Range $157,500—$213,000 USD Benefits and Perks Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care Mental Wellness Benefit Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays Enhanced Parental Leave Volunteer Time Off Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break *please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary* Culture Values Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress. Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes. One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone. Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations. Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star. Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible. Why choose Mixpanel? We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions. Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.