Contracts Manager

Fireworks•San Mateo, CA

25d•$250,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As Contracts Manager, you will be a foundational member of Fireworks’ growing legal team, owning the high-volume contracting that keeps the business moving. You will draft, review, and negotiate standard agreements supporting commercial and operational activity, while exercising significant independence and judgment. The role initially reports to the General Counsel. Fireworks is a platform for specialized intelligence that helps companies build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their data, workflows, and products. It serves state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. The company describes itself as a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion. Its legal team supports responsible growth and aims to operate with high integrity, trust, collaboration, and mutual support.

Requirements

At least 10 years managing commercial contracts in-house, at a law firm, or in a contracts or procurement function.
Strong hands-on drafting and redlining experience across a broad range of standard commercial contracts.
Ability to carry negotiations independently.
Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage high volume without sacrificing quality.
Demonstrated ownership of a contract lifecycle end to end, including post-signature obligation management.
An AI-forward, builder’s mindset and demonstrated ability to use AI tools to streamline daily workflows and accelerate efficiency.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements supporting customer and procurement relationships.
Build and maintain scalable contracting and compliance frameworks to help the growing legal team keep pace with the business.
Partner with legal, finance, and business teams to move agreements from request to signature.
Manage multiple contract workstreams in parallel under fast timelines while maintaining high quality.
Own the contract lifecycle end to end, including post-signature obligation management.