Paralegal, Contract Manager

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

📋 Description

• Review and revise standard-form agreements, such as NDAs, order forms, SOWs, amendments, vendor contracts, and general customer and partner agreements.

• Address routine contract inquiries and escalate non-standard terms to the appropriate attorney, providing a clear summary and recommendation.

• Draft agreements using templates, oversee version control, manage approvals, and facilitate document signatures.

• Gather deal context for attorneys on larger matters.

• Manage the contract lifecycle management system, which includes workflows, templates, approval routing, e-signatures, repository organization, and data integrity.

• Assess legal requests based on urgency and complexity, direct them to the appropriate owner, and track their completion.

• Monitor key dates, renewals, and post-signature obligations.

• Develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks, checklists, and self-service resources.

• Create reports and metrics on turnaround times, request volumes, and bottlenecks.

• Enhance manual or repetitive tasks through process improvements, automation, and AI tools.

• Examine outside counsel invoices, identify discrepancies, and coordinate approvals with Legal and Finance.

• Monitor legal expenditures and assist with budget and forecasting inputs.

• Onboard outside counsel and organize engagement letters, rate details, and matter records.

• Assist with compliance and diligence activities, trade compliance screenings, and corporate/entity records.

• Maintain legal department records, knowledge resources, policy libraries, and template libraries.

• Support special projects, transactions, and audits within the legal team.

• Report to the General Counsel and collaborate with Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other business units.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a paralegal, contract manager, or legal operations professional within a law firm, in-house legal department, or technology company.

• Significant hands-on experience in reviewing and revising commercial contracts.

• Strong working knowledge of common commercial terms, including confidentiality, limitation of liability, indemnification, intellectual property, payment, and termination.

• Ability to recognize when a term deviates from the playbook and requires attorney review.

• Hands-on experience managing a CLM platform, including workflows, templates, and reporting.

• Proven track record of producing accurate, well-organized work under deadline pressure.

• Excellent writing skills and the ability to communicate contract issues to non-lawyers in straightforward language.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Sound judgment in handling sensitive and privileged information.

• Preferred: ABA-approved paralegal certificate.

• Preferred: Experience with SpotDraft or a similar CLM platform, reporting, and automation.

• Preferred: Background in enterprise software, infrastructure, data storage, cloud, high-performance computing, or artificial intelligence.

• Preferred: Familiarity with software licensing, SaaS, reseller, and hardware or appliance transactions.

• Preferred: Experience in legal spend management, e-billing, or reviewing outside counsel invoices.

• Preferred: Understanding of export controls, sanctions screening, or corporate entity maintenance.

• Preferred: Notary Public commission (CA), or willingness to obtain one.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package that includes bonus and equity participation.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• Life insurance coverage.

• 401(K) retirement plan.

• Flexible Time Off (FTO).

• Sick leave.

• Leave of absence in accordance with the FMLA and other applicable leave laws.