VP, Commercial Contracting & Legal Operations

Match Group•Los Angeles, CA

47d•$285,000 - $350,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Match Group Legal is consolidating commercial contracting into a single, dedicated function serving its portfolio of brands. This role will scale and lead this function, managing a team of commercial contracting professionals and handling vendor, SaaS/technology, and operations contracting matters globally. The position involves reimagining commercial contracting with AI integration and partnering with Legal AI Enablement to create an AI-forward legal function. This is an opportunity to design and scale a new function from the ground up, consolidating work spread across multiple brands and managers, and building the necessary team, tools, and processes.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in commercial contracting, procurement, or vendor management functions, including significant negotiation and people-management experience.
Substantial experience managing or leading a Legal Operations function, ideally for a global Legal Team.
Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
Experience leading and mentoring attorneys and building high-performing teams.
Strategic, solutions-oriented thinking with the ability to assess risk clearly and communicate in the context of business goals.
Intellectual curiosity, creativity, and a drive to win for the business and the team.
In-house experience at a technology company, thriving in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment or multi-brand/multi-business-unit organization.
Deep experience negotiating and structuring SaaS, technology licensing, procurement, and other vendor agreements at scale.
Genuine AI-forward mindset, using AI tools in personal work and being energized by reimagining contracting with AI.
Track record of building or scaling a function and leading through change.
Strong business judgment and executive presence.
Ability to collaborate easily with procurement, finance, real estate, and workplace teams.
J.D. from an accredited institution and an active law license (in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction) required.
Comfort with real autonomy in a newly consolidated function.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a multi-brand or multi-business-unit organization.
Experience working across a complex global organization.
Experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, contract AI platforms).

Responsibilities

Own commercial contracting globally, setting the strategy for drafting, negotiating, and managing procurement, vendor, and SaaS/technology agreements.
Own the Legal Operations function, leading the team responsible for contract lifecycle management, billing, and legal-tech tooling strategy and execution, with a focus on AI and automation.
Reimagine commercial contracting with AI in the loop, identifying opportunities for AI to accelerate and automate review, drafting, negotiation support, and risk triage.
Support central functions, extending commercial contracting support to procurement, workplace experience, finance, real estate, and operations.
Build scalable processes, including playbooks, templates, and governance, to improve the speed, consistency, and clarity of commercial contracting support.
Manage risk and escalation by identifying and escalating legal and business risks in vendor and procurement relationships.
Partner across the business, serving as a senior point of contact for procurement, finance, and vendor management.