Contract Administrator

Burnett Specialists Staffing | Recruiting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Burnett Specialists Staffing | Recruiting is seeking a highly skilled contracts attorney to join a fast-growing SaaS company's legal team in Austin, TX. You will review, draft, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements, including SaaS contracts, MSAs, NDAs, and DPAs, while guiding them through the lifecycle from intake to renewal.

You will optimize legal operations, implement templates and CLM workflows, and responsibly deploy AI tools to boost efficiency with proper oversight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 3-7+ years of contract review, research, drafting experience.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements with customers, partners, or vendors.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate commercial agreements (SaaS, MSAs, NDAs, DPAs).
• Own contract lifecycle from intake to renewal, track deadlines and obligations.
• Improve legal operations, templates, approvals, and reporting; support CLM migration.
• Leverage AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining oversight and confidentiality.
• Spot legal/privacy issues in agreements and escalate as needed.
• Support corporate matters, entity management, and records maintenance.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and scale as the company grows.

Skills

Contract review

Contract drafting

Negotiation

AI in legal workflows

Data privacy awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Claude AI

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing, global SaaS technology company with an established international presence and a diverse customer base. The organization has experienced significant growth and continues to expand its operations in the U.S. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established but growing legal team and play an important role in supporting the company’s corporate and commercial legal activities.

Responsibilities:

• Contract Review & Negotiation: Review, draft, redline, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements directly with customers, partners, vendors, and suppliers, including SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs, order forms, DPAs, and other commercial contracts. Identify key legal and business issues, recommend appropriate revisions, and work with internal stakeholders to move agreements efficiently through the contracting process.
• Contract Lifecycle Management: Own the contract lifecycle from intake through execution and renewal, including maintaining contract records, monitoring deadlines and obligations, coordinating approvals, and ensuring executed agreements are properly documented and accessible.
• Legal Operations: Help manage and continuously improve the company’s legal operations and contracting processes, including contract templates, playbooks, approval workflows, reporting, and key legal metrics. Support the migration to a new contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform and help establish scalable processes as the company continues to grow.
• AI & Legal Technology: Leverage AI tools, including Claude and other emerging legal technology, to improve efficiency in contract review, legal research, drafting, summarization, and related workflows. Evaluate and refine AI-assisted processes while maintaining appropriate human oversight, accuracy, confidentiality, and professional judgment.
• Legal Issue Spotting: Apply working knowledge of data protection/privacy, intellectual property, IT, and general corporate matters to identify potential issues in commercial agreements and elevate matters to the appropriate legal team member or outside counsel when necessary.
• Corporate & Legal Support: Assist the broader legal team with corporate matters, entity management, legal research, maintaining corporate records, preparing legal documents, and other projects as needed.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline and automate recurring legal processes, improve contract turnaround times, increase visibility into legal workflows, and create scalable processes that support the company’s continued U.S. and international growth.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 3-7+ years of contract review, research, drafting experience