Paralegal & Contract Ops for AI/Cloud Tech

WEKA; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

WEKA is seeking a Paralegal / Contract Manager to be the operational backbone of its legal team. You will handle first-pass contract reviews, redlines, and contract workflows, ensuring timely progress from request to signature.

You will collaborate with Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other teams, triaging questions to attorneys and leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining accuracy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a paralegal, contract manager, or legal operations professional at a law firm, in-house legal department, or technology company, with substantial hands-on experience reviewing and redlining commercial contracts.
• Contract fluency: Strong working knowledge of common commercial terms and the judgment to recognize when a term falls outside the playbook.
• Contract management systems: Hands-on experience administering a CLM platform, including workflows, templates, and reporting.
• Attention to detail: A track record of producing accurate, well-organized work under deadline pressure.
• Clear writing and the ability to explain contract issues to non-lawyers in plain language.

Responsibilities

• Review and redline standard‑form agreements, including NDAs, order forms, SOWs, amendments, vendor agreements, and routine customer and partner paper.
• Respond to routine contract questions and escalate non-standard terms to the appropriate attorney with a summary and recommendation.
• Prepare agreements from templates, manage version control, coordinate approvals, and drive documents through signature.
• Administer the contract lifecycle management system, including workflow design, templates, approval routing, e-signature, and repository organization.

Skills

Contract fluency

Communication

Attention to detail

Data orientation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SpotDraft

CLM platform

Job description

WEKA is seeking a Paralegal / Contract Manager to be the operational backbone of its legal team. You will handle first-pass contract reviews, redlines, and contract workflows, ensuring timely progress from request to signature.

You will collaborate with Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other teams, triaging questions to attorneys and leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining accuracy.