Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Adaptavist is a global family of companies focused on delivering enterprise software and tailored solutions. The Contracts & Legal Manager will oversee contract review, negotiation, and management while supporting the Commercial Operations team to drive growth and ensure compliance.
Responsibilities
- Review and redlining of contracts, including resolution of challenges and queries from counterparties (such as clients)
- Independently negotiate legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts (NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, software purchasing agreements, etc.)
- Signature of contracts of significant size, with recommendations to Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations
- Management of information related to contracts (clients, partners, suppliers), and within internal contractual IT systems. Knowledge management and enforcement of process
- Ability to work with process specialists who manage IT systems and knowledge (i.e. document repositories, FAQs, and wikis) associated with contracts and legal support
- Providing “peer reviews” of departmental contract redlines, and requesting such peer reviews to support a robust, quality-driven process
- Reviewing documentation that forms part of various strategic sales, partnerships, or acquisitions
- Balancing risk mitigation with Adaptavist’s global strategy and priorities
- Work collaboratively to provide continuous improvement of cross-team training, playbooks, contract templates, and legal processes
Skills
- Significant experience with contracts, particularly in sales and procurement environment, from pre-sales to contract closeout
- Experience and understanding of analyzing business processes for efficiencies
- Ability to critically assess transactions and identify business issues
- Use of enterprise software tools (examples might include Jira, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Sheets, HubSpot, etc). Solid mechanical and analytical ability, and ability to break down problems
- Willing to learn, take on new challenges, and resolve them methodically
- Ability to work individually or across potentially geographically distributed teams. Exposure to working across multiple countries and time zones is a plus
- Friendly and approachable – excellent interpersonal skills with international and cross-cultural experience
- A quick and efficient learner with strong forensic attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
- Demonstrate the ability to work with deadlines and under pressure
- An ability to think innovatively and creatively
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Strong sense of character, honesty, and teamwork
- Law degree + at least 2 years contracts/legal experience OR Bachelor's degree + at least 4 years contracts/legal experience
- Experience in addressing contractual issues in cloud, data security, privacy, and intellectual property matters
- Experience with third-party software resale
- Experience with SaaS, cloud computing, and software sales
- Familiarity with Atlassian products and related services
Benefits
- Very generous holiday (PTO) allowance
- Flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team
- We provide MacBooks to all employees
- Additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices
- 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents
- 13 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS
- Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k - The Adaptavist Group matches up to 4%
- Flexible working
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Employee assistance programme
- Volunteer days
- Canada Life Care
- Free online streaming service subscription
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