Contracts Manager, Procurement

Airtable; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Contracts Manager to lead vendor contracting efforts. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in contracts management, particularly within a SaaS or technology context. You will manage vendor agreements, develop contracting tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance and efficiency. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the legal landscape of a growing organization while working in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about commercial contracting and eager to contribute to a forward-thinking team, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of in-house contracts management experience, especially in SaaS.
• Proficient in reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage vendor contracting and negotiate legal terms for various services.
• Build contracting playbooks and maintain contracts repository.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on procurement requests.

Skills

Contracts Management

Negotiation

Legal Drafting

SaaS Knowledge

AI Contracting

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Job description

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Airtable Legal strives to provide proactive, realistic, and strategic advice that drives maximum business impact and reflects Airtable’s integrity, creativity, and ambition. This Contracts Manager, Procurement position presents a unique opportunity to be a part of our talented legal team! We are looking to add a superstar to lead and build the vendor contracting function for our legal team. This role will also offer the opportunity to hone and apply skills in other legal areas, including commercial, AI, privacy, and product.

What you'll do

• Manage the legal team’s approach to vendor contracting, including:
• Reviewing and negotiating legal terms in vendor agreements for technology/SaaS, professional services, event services, consulting, and other products and services.
• Building and maintaining contracting playbooks, contract templates and clause libraries, legal process wikis, training materials, and other tools to help scale the legal function, with an emphasis on vendor contracting.
• Building and maintaining Airtable’s contracts repository.
• Developing data-driven insights regarding the company’s commercial contracting operations.
• Working closely with cross-functional partners, including Airtable’s Product and Engineering teams, to ensure that technology incorporated into Airtable’s software aligns with legal, security, subprocessor, and customer requirements.
• Collaborate with teams across Airtable for the review and approval of procurement requests, including procurement, finance, IT, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Providing support for procure-to-pay process optimization and automation projects.
• Respond to a range of questions, and provide support to cross-functional partners, regarding Airtable’s commercial contracts, negotiating positions, and related processes and strategies.
• Help enhance and participate in projects to increase the efficiency of commercial legal support.

Who you are

• You have at least 5 years of in-house contracts management experience, including experience with a SaaS or other technology company.
• You are passionate about commercial contracting and have demonstrated experience reviewing, negotiating, and drafting the legal terms in a broad range of commercial contracts.
• You have experience working with AI vendors, particularly in the context of SaaS products, and understand the legal, security, and compliance considerations involved. You are familiar with AI contracting, including the distinctions between generative AI and traditional machine learning, and how these distinctions impact software agreements.
• You’re able to draft documents, policies, emails, and anything else in a precise and digestible manner.
• You’re flexible, resourceful, technologically savvy, and solution-oriented. You are excited to help a growing company define its legal identity, to build process and repeatability, and to manage and prioritize work independently. You’re both comfortable saying you don’t have the answer, and confident that you can then go find it.
• You are able to execute, prioritize, and stay focused in a fast-moving environment that is expanding and evolving.
• You have high integrity and excellent judgment, are a clear and thoughtful communicator, and are able to be both strategic and detail-oriented.
• You’re skilled at building authentic relationships with all kinds of people across many functional teams.

Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances.

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