Principal Contracts Negotiator

Skillsoft Ireland Limited; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Skillsoft is seeking a Principal Contract Negotiator to provide comprehensive legal support and guidance to internal stakeholders. You will navigate complex contracts, mitigate risks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive company growth.

The role demands a proactive mindset, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication. Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in negotiating licenses and services agreements, with a focus on risk management and revenue recognition.

Qualifications

• 8+ years negotiating complex legal documents with a Bachelor's degree.
• Solid understanding of legal terms and contract formulation principles.
• Familiarity with intellectual property licensing, indemnity, termination, warranties, and remedies.
• Experience interacting with third parties in cooperative or adversarial settings.
• Proficient in Word and capable of working in various databases.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
• Influence as a clear communicator and cross-team collaborator.
• Customer-focused mindset and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of the customer contract negotiation process.
• Review, draft, and negotiate terms in licenses, services, vendor, and confidentiality agreements, plus RFP responses.
• Attend calls with internal teams and customers to review agreements.
• Address contract structure, interpretation, compliance, and policy questions promptly.
• Coordinate between sales, subject matter experts, and contract administration to ensure revenue recognition compliance.
• Contribute to special projects and develop subject matter expertise within Legal.

Skills

Contract negotiation

IP licensing

Third-party coordination

Attention to detail

Interpersonal communication

Independent decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Word

Salesforce

Ironclad

Job description

At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.

Skillsoft delivers transformative learning experiences that propel organizations and people to grow together. Our Company partners with enterprise organizations and serves a global community of learners to prepare today’s employees for tomorrow’s economy. With Skillsoft, customers gain access to blended, multimodal learning experiences that do more than build skills, they grow a more capable, adaptive, and engaged workforce. Through a portfolio of best-in-class content, a platform that is personalized and connected to customer needs, world-class tech and a broad ecosystem of partners, Skillsoft drives continuous growth and performance for employees and their organizations by overcoming critical skill gaps and unlocking human potential.

Come join our team as a Principal Contract Negotiator to provide comprehensive legal support and guidance to internal stakeholders, including management, departments, and business units. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with various cross-functional teams to navigate legal contracts and mitigate risks, contributing to the overall success and growth of the company. This role requires a proactive and business-oriented mindset, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of the customer contract negotiation process
• Review, draft, and negotiate legal terms in content license agreements, services agreements, vendor agreements, confidentiality agreements, and RFP responses using company and third-party paper
• Attend calls with internal teams, as well as customers to review agreements
• Solve problems and respond to questions concerning contract structure, interpretation of contract terms, compliance, and policies in a timely fashion
• Manage relationships between the sales team, internal subject matter experts, and contract administration to ensure compliance with revenue recognition rules and other company policies
• Participate in special projects as needed with potential opportunities to develop specific areas of subject matter expertise within the Legal Department

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ year of professional experience negotiating complex legal documents with a Bachelor’s degree
• Solid understanding of legal terms and contract formulation principles
• Must be familiar with intellectual property licensing, indemnity, termination, warranties, and other remedy provisions
• Demonstrated experience in working directly with third parties in both cooperative and potentially adversarial scenarios
• Highly refined computer skills, including proficiency in Word and the ability to work in various databases
• Strong attention to detail, organized, and able to make independent decisions
• Ability to Influence as an enthusiastic communicator and collaborate with various teams within the organization
• Possess a customer service mindset with the ability to be adaptable and embrace change

Preferred Experience:

• Knowledge and experience with privacy law
• Licensed attorney
• Experience in the software or SaaS industries preferred
• Proficiency in using Salesforce and/or Ironclad
• Experience working with sales teams and/or procurement teams

Target base salary range for this job requisition is anticipated to be approximately $100,000 - $115,000 annualized.

We also offer Enterprise benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, and paid time off

The company may modify salaries, salary ranges and/or Pay Plans from time to time as it deems necessary.

Our Values

We are passionately committed to leadership, learning, and success. We embrace every opportunity to serve our customers and each other as: one team, open and respectful, curious, and agile.

MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:

Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com .

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES: We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Skillsoft does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Skillsoft employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Skillsoft Employment Agency Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Skillsoft is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

Additional Information

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

Disability Status

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305

Page 1 of 1

OMB Control Number 1250-0005

Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

• Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
• Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
• Blind or low vision
• Cancer (past or present)
• Cardiovascular or heart disease
• Celiac disease
• Cerebral palsy
• Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
• Diabetes
• Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
• Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
• Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
• Intellectual or developmental disability
• Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
• Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
• Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
• Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Neurodivergence, for example, attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
• Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
• Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
• Short stature (dwarfism)
• Traumatic brain injury

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service‑connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three‑year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Race

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Skillsoft’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Skillsoft’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Skillsoft has my consent to collect, store, and process my data for the purpose of considering me for employment, and for up to 365 days thereafter.

About Skillsoft

Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) delivers transformative learning experiences that propel organizations and people to grow together. The Company partners with enterprise organizations and serves a global community of learners to prepare today’s employees for tomorrow’s economy. With Skillsoft, customers gain access to blended, multimodal learning experiences that do more than build skills, they grow a more capable, adaptive, and engaged workforce. Through a portfolio of best-in-class content, a platform that is personalized and connected to customer needs, world-class tech and a broad ecosystem of partners, Skillsoft drives continuous growth and performance for employees and their organizations by overcoming critical skill gaps and unlocking human potential. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com