Contracts Manager

Sift

13d

About The Position

Sift is hiring a Contracts and Legal Operations Manager to help lead in both our legal contracts function and our legal operations evolution. This role will work closely with many Sift business groups, notably our sales and operations teams from a contracts perspective, and we are looking for the right person to manage our legal operations as we continue to grow, adopt increasing automation and AI tooling, and achieve our mission of helping companies to stop fraud before it happens.
About the role:
Review and negotiate various buy and sell side contracts, including order forms, NDAs, and MSAs.
Own the business procurement contract administration lifecycle, including from responding to and tracking inbound requests to finalizing agreements.
Collaborate cross functionally, particularly with sales and sales operations to streamline the sales process and related deal cycles.
Create and and maintain key templates, playbooks, policies, and other knowledge materials.
Track and report on department metrics to inform decision-making.
Drive continuous process improvement and automation or AI driven work enhancements, re-imagined processes and creation of process collateral.
Take on other duties that come up as part of a small legal and compliance team in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years prior in-house work experience as a contracts manager, including a minimum of 3 years in-house at a B2B SaaS company focused on contracts administrator, legal operations or similar role with direct experience in, and responsibility for, managing and negotiating contracts.
• Experience using contract lifecycle management systems and other technology or AI based legal operations solutions.
• Experience with Salesforce.
• Demonstrable experience developing and implementing tools and processes to streamline and improve the legal function.
• Strong organizational, time, and project management skills and both the ability and flexibility to handle high volume and balance competing demands
• Passion for organization, attention to detail, and driving open matters to closure

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working in high-growth companies
• Project management experience sourcing and implementing legal team technology solutions (e.g., contract management, security tools, project management tools, etc.).
• Experience using Jira

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate various buy and sell side contracts, including order forms, NDAs, and MSAs.
• Own the business procurement contract administration lifecycle, including from responding to and tracking inbound requests to finalizing agreements.
• Collaborate cross functionally, particularly with sales and sales operations to streamline the sales process and related deal cycles.
• Create and and maintain key templates, playbooks, policies, and other knowledge materials.
• Track and report on department metrics to inform decision-making.
• Drive continuous process improvement and automation or AI driven work enhancements, re-imagined processes and creation of process collateral.
• Take on other duties that come up as part of a small legal and compliance team in a fast-paced environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed