Corporate Counsel – Contracts

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

📋 Description

• Prepare, evaluate, modify, and negotiate agreements with customers, vendors, and suppliers, including services and consulting contracts, teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, SOWs, and amendments.

• Act as the main legal contact for NDAs/MNDAs, overseeing matters from initiation to signature using authorized forms and fallback positions.

• Handle assigned legal issues from start to finish, which includes reviewing and negotiating counterparty documents and formulating practical positions and alternatives.

• Enhance and maintain templates, fallback language, and playbooks.

• Offer daily legal assistance on routine corporate governance, employment inquiries, intellectual property and data rights, data privacy, vendor disputes, internal policies, and proposal evaluations.

• Recognize terms that deviate from OKSI's standard positions and escalate unique, strategic, or complex issues to the fractional General Counsel, providing clear explanations and suggested positions.

• Review standard government contracts, subcontracts, and flowdowns, addressing ordinary contract issues and identifying matters that necessitate specialized government-contract or compliance examination.

• Work collaboratively with the Contracts Administrator and teams across compliance, program management, procurement, finance, HR, engineering, and business development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA-accredited law school.

• Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Significant hands-on experience in drafting, redlining, and negotiating commercial agreements, with considerable work on counterparty documents.

• Proven experience in negotiating indemnity, limitation of liability, intellectual property and licensing, confidentiality, warranties, termination, and dispute clauses.

• Strong skills in contract drafting, legal research, analysis, and issue identification.

• Practical, business-focused judgment with the ability to communicate legal risks, options, and recommendations in straightforward language.

• Capacity to manage a large volume of agreements and competing priorities independently.

• Exceptional attention to detail and sound judgment regarding when to decide, ask for help, or escalate issues.

• Typically, 3–10 years of relevant legal experience, particularly in commercial contracts or transactional matters.

• Must possess, or be eligible to obtain and maintain, a U.S. Department of Defense Secret security clearance; securing and maintaining this clearance is a condition of employment.

• Must fulfill U.S. ITAR eligibility criteria: U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for necessary authorizations.

• Preferred qualifications include in-house experience, knowledge of federal government contracts, FAR/DFARS, defense industry, intellectual property and data rights, SBIR/STTR, CUI, cybersecurity, export-related terms, contract lifecycle management, e-signature, or legal operations tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employer fully covers medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.

• Starting with three weeks of vacation.

• Automatic company contribution to 401K – 5% of earned wages (no matching necessary).

• Opportunities for educational assistance and professional development.