Contracts Manager

Cirrascale; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

PTO

Professional development

Job summary

Cirrascale Cloud Services in California seeks an experienced Contracts Manager to own the full contract lifecycle, drafting, reviewing, and liaising with internal departments to accelerate deals.

You will implement templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows, collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Operations, and monitor contract metrics to reduce turnaround times.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of contracts experience, including significant in-house work.
• Experience drafting/editing MSAs, SOWs, partnership and lease agreements.
• Experience handling commercial contracts (public sector a plus).
• Experience implementing or administering legal AI tools; strong grasp of key commercial terms and risk allocation.
• Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and edit a high volume of commercial agreements including MSAs, SOWs, purchase agreements, partnership/channel agreements, and lease agreements.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, and Operations on escalations and approvals.
• Create, update, and manage standardized contract templates to support business velocity.
• Develop and maintain contract playbooks with preferred positions, approved fallback language, escalation guidelines, and clause libraries.
• Identify opportunities to streamline the contract management lifecycle and implement process improvements that reduce turnaround time and risk.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools for contract review, redlining, summarization, and data extraction; help design and refine AI-assisted workflows.
• Track and report on contract metrics (cycle time, volume, bottlenecks) to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Contracts experience

SaaS experience

In-house experience

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AI review tools

Redlining tools

Job description

Cirrascale Cloud Services provides high-performance cloud infrastructure purpose-built for deep learning, generative AI, and large-scale AI inference workloads. We specialize in dedicated GPU cloud solutions tailored to the unique needs of startups, research labs, and enterprise AI teams. Our mission is to accelerate AI innovation by combining powerful hardware with white-glove service and flexible, custom-built environments.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced Contracts Manager to support our growing legal team and scale our contracting function. In this role, you will own the full contract lifecycle across our commercial and public sector business by drafting, reviewing, and liaising with internal departments. Also, the Contracts Manager will help build templates and playbooks, drive process improvements, including the use of AI-powered tools to increase speed and consistency.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the internal review process as well as drafting, reviewing and editing a high volume of commercial agreements including MSAs, SOWs, purchase agreements, partnership/channel agreements, and lease agreements.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, and Operations on escalations and approvals.
• Create, update, and manage standardized contract templates to support business velocity
• Develop and maintain contract playbooks with preferred positions, approved fallback language, escalation guidelines, and clause libraries.
• Identify opportunities to streamline the contract management lifecycle and implement process improvements that reduce turnaround time and risk
• Leverage AI-enabled tools for contract review, redlining, summarization, and data extraction; help design and refine AI-assisted workflows
• Track and report on contract metrics (cycle time, volume, bottlenecks) to drive continuous improvement

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of contracts experience, including significant in-house experience. SaaS experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, editing and working with internal departments on MSAs, SOWs, partnership agreements, and lease agreements
• Experience handling commercial contracts (public sector a plus)
• Experience implementing or administering legal AI tools (e.g., generative AI review and redlining assistants) Strong grasp of key commercial terms and risk allocation (indemnification, limitation of liability, IP, confidentiality, data protection)
• Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
• Bachelor's degree required

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary range for the Contracts Manager is $110,000 to $150,000. This pay range reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay range for this job for the location for which it has been posted. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications.

Benefits include:

• 401(k) with company match.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

WHY JOIN CIRRASCALE?

Join a growing team that's pushing the boundaries of AI infrastructure. At Cirrascale, you’ll contribute to projects powering next-generation AI applications while working with top-tier hardware in a collaborative and innovative environment. From custom deployments to hands-on customer support, every role here plays a part in enabling breakthroughs in AI.

Cirrascale Cloud Services is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.