Contract Compliance Lead

BrightNight; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

BrightNight is seeking a Contract Compliance Lead to build and manage a structured system for tracking obligations, deadlines, renewals, and risks across contracts. You will leverage AI tools and CLM platforms to automate analysis, reminders, and reporting, ensuring timely fulfillment and audit readiness.

The role requires 4-7 years of hands-on experience in contract-related roles, strong project management, and excellent communication skills. Work shift is 1pm to 10pm IST, based in Pune, India.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of hands-on experience in contract compliance, contract management, contract operations, or contractual obligation management.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating a structured process for tracking obligations, deadlines, renewals, milestones, owners, and evidence.
• Practical experience using AI tools or AI agents for contract analysis, obligation extraction, compliance monitoring, reminders, workflow automation or reporting.
• Experience with Ironclad or a comparable CLM platform; familiarity with audit trails, compliance reporting, and workflow controls is preferred.
• Strong project and task management skills, including stakeholder coordination, deadline tracking, risk identification, escalation management, and corrective actions.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills, with a structured, detail-oriented, and proactive approach.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Legal Studies, Management, or a related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate a structured contract-compliance system covering obligations, deliverables, milestones, deadlines, renewals, owners, dependencies, and evidence of completion.
• Convert contract language into actionable obligations and maintain a centralized source of truth for status, risk, accountability, and follow-through.
• Monitor commitments end‑to‑end, manage reminders and stakeholder follow-ups, and escalated overdue, missed, ambiguous, or high-risk obligations.
• Apply AI tools and AI agents to contract analysis, obligation extraction, compliance monitoring, workflow execution, reporting, and follow-up automation.
• Use Ironclad or comparable CLM technology to support obligation tracking, workflow automation, compliance monitoring, and audit readiness.
• Maintain dashboards, alerts, records, supporting documentation, and audit trails that provide clear visibility into compliance status, upcoming obligations, and risks.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to address compliance gaps, coordinate corrective actions, and continuously improve contract compliance processes.
• Support ad hoc tasks and other responsibilities as assigned from time to time.

Skills

Contract compliance

Contract management

Obligation tracking

AI tools

Workflow automation

Stakeholder coordination

Project management

Analytical skills

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ironclad

Job description

Job Description:

As a Contract Compliance Lead, this role will establish and manage a structured system to track contractual obligations, deliverables, milestones, deadlines, renewals, and compliance requirements, ensuring all commitments are clearly assigned, proactively monitored, and fulfilled on time. The role will leverage AI tools and AI agents to automate contract analysis, obligation tracking, risk monitoring, follow-ups, and reporting, building a scalable and reliable framework that enhances operational efficiency, visibility, and control.

Role & responsibilities:

• Build and operate a structured contract-compliance system covering obligations, deliverables, milestones, deadlines, renewals, owners, dependencies, and evidence of completion.


• Convert contract language into actionable obligations and maintain a centralized source of truth for status, risk, accountability, and follow-through.


• Monitor commitments end‑to‑end, manage reminders and stakeholder follow-ups, and escalated overdue, missed, ambiguous, or high-risk obligations.


• Apply AI tools and AI agents to contract analysis, obligation extraction, compliance monitoring, workflow execution, reporting, and follow-up automation.


• Use Ironclad or comparable CLM technology to support obligation tracking, workflow automation, compliance monitoring, and audit readiness.


• Maintain dashboards, alerts, records, supporting documentation, and audit trails that provide clear visibility into compliance status, upcoming obligations, and risks.


• Partner with cross-functional teams to address compliance gaps, coordinate corrective actions, and continuously improve contract compliance processes.


• Support ad hoc tasks and other responsibilities as assigned from time to time.

Preferred candidate profile

• 4-7 years of hands‑on experience in contract compliance, contract management, contract operations, or contractual obligation management.


• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating a structured process or system for tracking contractual obligations, deadlines, renewals, milestones, owners, and evidence.


• Practical experience using AI tools or AI agents for contract analysis, obligation extraction, compliance monitoring, reminders, workflow automation or reporting.


• Experience with Ironclad or a comparable CLM platform; familiarity with audit trails, compliance reporting, and workflow controls is preferred.


• Strong project and task management skills, including stakeholder coordination, deadline tracking, risk identification, escalation management, and corrective actions.


• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills, with a structured, detail-oriented, and proactive approach.


• Bachelors degree in business, Legal Studies, Management, or a related field is preferred.

Work Shift - 1pm to 10pm IST time zone