Contracts Specialist - USDS

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and finalizing a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS contracts, NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, and other commercial legal terms.
- Maintain and improve contract management processes, tools, and systems to increase efficiency and reduce risk, including developing and implementing playbooks and templates to improve contract workflows.
- Flag key issues for attorney review when needed, conduct legal and benchmark research that may be relevant to projects, and assist with the preparation of presentation and training materials for legal leadership and business partners.
- Define and track key metrics and key quality and performance indicators, and pull data to perform analyses.
- Provide guidance on contractual obligations, risks, and business terms to internal stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with business partners across the organization.
- Analyze complex legal issues and provide well-founded recommendations to the legal team and other stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- Track key contract terms, obligations, and expiration dates to support ongoing business operations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- 3+ years of contract and compliance management experience in-house or in a large law firm.
- Strong understanding of commercial contract terms, including licensing, limitations of liability, indemnity, and confidentiality provisions.
- BA/BS or Paralegal Certificate.
- Ability to work independently and in teams, managing projects with competing timelines.
- A background with tech or media companies, and data security compliance.
- Experience with contract management software and workflow tools.

Preferred Qualifications
- Solid organizational and time management skills with high attention to detail.
- Ability to own a process from end to end with minimal supervision with a proven ability to handle a varied workload and prioritize as needed.
- A strong bias for action and partnering with business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with technology and comfortable learning new technology.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $88000 - $151111 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.