Senior Contracts Manager

Trial Library•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Trial Library is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to own the company’s contracting function and serve as its primary legal point of contact for contracting and legal operations. The role manages the contract lifecycle from intake through drafting, negotiation, execution, and post-signature obligations, and administers the company’s CLM platform. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced healthtech environment, balance legal, regulatory, and compliance risks against business value, and establish efficient legal processes without sacrificing precision. The role partners with business stakeholders and the Head of Legal to negotiate complex commercial and healthtech agreements, advise leaders on contractual rights and risks, and develop scalable templates, playbooks, policies, workflows, and reporting. Over time, the Senior Contracts Manager will represent Trial Library directly in partner meetings and negotiations and advance deals to signature.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) required.
5–8+ years of contract negotiation and management experience, handling high contract volume in healthtech, biotech, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or clinical research.
Expertise in the regulatory, compliance, risk, and liability issues described in the posting, with judgment to apply that knowledge to complex, high-stakes deals.
Hands-on experience administering a CLM platform and configuring workflows, templates, and reporting.
Sound legal judgment and commercial agreement experience, including the ability to determine when to hold a position, concede, or escalate.
Strong organizational and time-management skills across multiple deals and competing deadlines.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining contract terms and risks in clear, business-friendly language.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, redline, and negotiate customer, vendor, partnership, and client agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs, DPAs, data-sharing agreements, licensing agreements, API and technology partner agreements, revenue-share agreements, healthcare provider network agreements, amendments, change orders, renewals, terminations, and ad hoc agreements.
Work with stakeholders to understand deal scope, objectives, and risk tolerance and translate business needs into clear, enforceable contract language.
Represent Trial Library with commercial partners by joining meetings and calls, leading live negotiations, and advancing deals to signature on the company’s behalf.
Advise business leaders in plain business language on contractual rights and obligations, intellectual property and data rights, and risk mitigation.
Escalate non-standard terms, data protection and security requirements, and legal or regulatory risks to the Head of Legal with a recommended position.
Monitor changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards that affect contracts and recommend timely updates to templates, playbooks, and fallback language.
Prepare a deal sheet for each executed commercial contract, summarizing key terms, obligations, and risks for teams responsible for performance.
Negotiate high-risk healthtech contract terms, including HIPAA business associate agreements; PHI/PII privacy, data-sharing, and security provisions; fair-market-value compensation, revenue-share, and referral arrangements compliant with the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and EKRA; and liability, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, insurance, IP, and AI data-use provisions.
Administer and serve as subject-matter expert for the CLM platform, including templates, workflows, user permissions, reporting, enhancements, troubleshooting, and user training.
Manage contract intake to meet business deadlines and track obligations, renewals, and compliance.
Partner with the Head of Legal to build and maintain templates, playbooks, fallback language, contracting policies, and processes.
Identify opportunities to improve contracting workflows, reporting, and metrics.
Support other legal and cross-functional projects as assigned by the Head of Legal.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
Disability, life, and supplemental insurance options.
Flexible paid time off.
Observed company holidays.
One-time home office stipend.
401(k) program.
Pre-tax HSA and FSA options.
Commuter benefits.
Financial wellness resources.
Legal protection plans.
Voluntary pet wellness support.
Domestic partner coverage.
Additional voluntary benefit programs.