Procurement Counsel for AI Cloud & Tech Contracts

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; New York, San Francisco, Seattle (NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale seeks a Procurement Counsel to support high-volume vendor and supplier agreements as part of the Legal team. You will partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering and Finance, negotiating hardware, software, networking components, services and SOWs.

You will build templates, playbooks and CLM processes to contract quickly and safely at scale, while mentoring a paralegal and training business teams on contracting risk.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited US law school and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
• 5–8 years of legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house, with a strong focus on commercial and procurement contracts.
• Hands-on experience negotiating agreements for software, hardware, networking components and technology services.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate procurement agreements including hardware purchase and supply agreements, software licenses and SaaS subscriptions, support and maintenance agreements, professional services agreements, statements of work, and NDAs.
• Support the Director, Legal (Procurement and Strategic Sourcing) on strategic, high-value supply agreements for compute, networking and storage, owning defined workstreams and ancillary documents.
• Negotiate key terms such as pricing and payment, delivery and acceptance, warranties, service levels, data protection and security, IP, indemnities and limitations of liability.
• Review supplier terms for data protection, information security, export control and sanctions, and anti-corruption requirements, working with Privacy, Security and Compliance colleagues.

Skills

Drafting contracts

Negotiation

Legal advisement

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk assessment

Education

JD from US law school

Tools

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools

Job description

Nscale seeks a Procurement Counsel to support high-volume vendor and supplier agreements as part of the Legal team. You will partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering and Finance, negotiating hardware, software, networking components, services and SOWs.

You will build templates, playbooks and CLM processes to contract quickly and safely at scale, while mentoring a paralegal and training business teams on contracting risk.