Remote SaaS Contract Specialist

Phx Fwd; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Disability insurance

Job summary

Paylocity is seeking a Contract Specialist to support its legal team in the fast-paced commercial function. This role reports to Senior Counsel and handles contract administration, drafting, review, and negotiations of commercial agreements across service, vendor, SOWs, amendments, and NDAs.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of SAAS/tech contracting experience, with JD preferred but not required, and strong Word/Excel skills. Fully remote in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts, preferably SAAS and technology agreements.
• JD preferred but not required
• Proficient in Word and Excel
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Desire to collaborate in a fast-pace and evolving tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, redline, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts including service agreements, vendor agreements, statements of work, amendments, NDAs, and related legal agreements.
• Responsible for contract negotiation of high volume of engagements in partnership with commercial counsel.
• Ensure efficiency and organization in intake process and deal pipeline to enable appropriate prioritization and timeliness of response to stakeholders across requests.
• Identify terms and conditions options, and/or carve-out strategies to resolve contract negotiation roadblocks while limiting risk as well as applying fallback positions established by the legal team.
• Independently review and redline agreements using internal resources with appropriate escalation on non-standard positions.
• Identify and help implement process improvements to contracting policies and procedures, including contract lifecycle management and related initiatives.
• Collaborate across stakeholders to coordinate advice internally and externally.
• Independently lead internal calls with clients on deal structure, open issues and related contract support.
• As appropriate, lead live negotiations leveraging playbook and cheat sheet positions for low complexity transactions.
• Proactively liaise with internal clients to understand deal cycle, pipeline and urgency on requests.
• Build relationships and maintain open communication with internal clients to establish strong partnership with legal.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Legal research

Stakeholder management

Document review

Education

JD preferred

Tools

MS Word

Excel

Job description

Paylocity is seeking a Contract Specialist to support its legal team in the fast-paced commercial function. This role reports to Senior Counsel and handles contract administration, drafting, review, and negotiations of commercial agreements across service, vendor, SOWs, amendments, and NDAs.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of SAAS/tech contracting experience, with JD preferred but not required, and strong Word/Excel skills. Fully remote in the U.S.