Corporate Counsel – Contracts

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

📋 Description

• Prepare, review, modify, and negotiate agreements related to customers, vendors, suppliers, services, consulting, teaming, subcontracts, licensing, SOW, and amendments.

• Act as the main legal contact for NDAs/MNDAs from initial intake through final signature.

• Oversee assigned legal matters from intake to resolution.

• Evaluate and negotiate counterparty documents while maintaining accepted negotiation positions.

• Formulate practical legal strategies and fallback language.

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

• Provide ongoing legal support regarding corporate governance, employment, intellectual property and data rights, data privacy, vendor disputes, internal policies, and proposal evaluations.

• Recognize non-standard terms and escalate innovative, strategic, or particularly complex issues to the fractional General Counsel along with recommendations.

• Deliver precise redlines and succinct recommendations, ensuring the accuracy of final text and comments.

• Utilize approved AI and other tools while personally verifying and taking responsibility for the output.

• Assess routine government contracts, subcontracts, and flow downs, identifying issues that require specialized attention.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• J.D. from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA).

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

• Significant hands-on experience in drafting, redlining, and negotiating commercial agreements, including substantial engagement with counterparty documents.

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

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

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

• Capability to handle a high volume of agreements and manage competing priorities through to resolution.

• Keen attention to detail and sound judgment on when to decide, inquire, or escalate issues.

• Proactive in addressing open issues, eager to learn new tasks, and capable of incorporating feedback.

• Typically 3-7 years of relevant legal experience, including substantial hands-on experience with commercial contracts or transactions.

• Must possess or be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense Secret security clearance.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a refugee, or an asylee, or be eligible for required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR regulations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.

• Starting with three weeks of vacation.

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

• Educational assistance provided.

• Opportunities for professional development.