Contracts Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee legal assistance for internal procurement and purchasing processes, encompassing intake, triage, routing, approvals, and collaboration with business stakeholders.

• Analyze, revise, and negotiate standard and lower-risk commercial agreements, which include:

• - NDAs

• - Vendor contracts

• - Order forms

• - Standard templates for customers and suppliers

• - Other fundamental commercial contracts

• Efficiently escalate non-standard, high-risk, or strategic matters to legal counsel with sound judgment.

• Develop, enhance, and sustain contracting workflows that minimize turnaround time and enhance consistency across the organization.

• Create and manage automations for legal intake, approvals, document generation, signature workflows, and contract tracking.

• Handle the daily administration and optimization of essential legal tools, including DocuSign and other contract workflow systems.

• Collaborate with Legal, Procurement, Security, Finance, IT, and business teams to streamline the transition of requests from submission to signature.

• Assist in creating and maintaining templates, clause libraries, playbooks, approval matrices, and self-service resources.

• Monitor key operational metrics, pinpoint bottlenecks, and propose process enhancements.

• Support the implementation and testing of AI-driven workflows to automate repetitive legal and contract management tasks.

• Contribute to designing a scalable legal operations environment that fosters growth without introducing unnecessary friction.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in contracts management, legal operations, procurement operations, paralegal work, or a similar role.

• Strong understanding of commercial contracts and the capability to review standard agreements with sound judgment.

• Experience in supporting procurement, purchasing, vendor intake, or contract approval workflows.

• Familiarity with contract lifecycle tools, e-signature platforms, workflow automation tools, and systems administration.

• Experience in managing or assisting with tools such as DocuSign, CLM platforms, ticketing systems, or workflow orchestration tools.

• Strong operational discipline and meticulous attention to detail.

• Ability to handle a high volume of requests while keeping stakeholders informed and maintaining workflow.

• A systems-oriented mindset, with a propensity to identify recurring tasks and seek improved processes.

• Interest in AI, automation, and practical technological applications within legal and contracting workflows.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with both legal and non-legal teams.

• Comfort in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and speed is essential.

🏝️ Benefits

• Start-up equity

• Comprehensive health, vision & dental coverage

• Catered lunches & dinners for San Francisco or New York employees

• Commuter benefits

• Team building events & happy hours

• Flexible PTO

• Apple equipment plus a home office budget

• 401k plan