Senior Biotech Contracts Manager — Remote

Sensei Biotherapeutics; United States; Remote; USD 118,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Flexible schedule

Health, dental, and vision

Job summary

Faeth Therapeutics seeks an experienced Contracts Manager to join our legal team as the company’s first in-house contracts professional. Remote within the U.S., you will draft, redline, and negotiate a wide range of biotech agreements, and drive them from initial draft to signature and filing.

You will build playbooks, templates, and Ironclad workflows, focusing on protectable IP, confidentiality, data, and efficient processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years negotiating and managing biotech contracts.
• Experience with standard biotech agreement set with counterparties.
• Practical judgment in closing deals quickly and protecting key terms.
• Experience administering a CLM system like Ironclad.

Responsibilities

• Draft, redline, and negotiate the company's agreements directly with counterparties: CDAs, consulting agreements, MSAs and SOWs, vendor and CRO agreements, clinical trial agreements, CMC and supply agreements, MTAs, and others as they arise.
• Apply our playbooks with judgment: hold firm on intellectual property, confidentiality, data, and other terms that carry real risk; resolve lower stakes points efficiently; escalate to the General Counsel when a position warrants it.
• Move agreements to signature quickly. Own the timeline on every agreement, keep requesters informed, and remove the friction that slows contracts down.
• Be the front door for contracts across the company. Triage requests, run with what you can, and route the rest.
• Build and maintain the contract playbooks: our positions and fallbacks by agreement type, who reviews and approves what, and when a matter goes to the General Counsel or to outside counsel.
• Route approvals, including Finance, manage signature, file executed agreements in Ironclad with correct metadata, and track renewals, expirations, and obligations.
• Own the contract repository: every executed agreement in Ironclad, organized, complete, and accessible to the right people.
• Administer Ironclad: workflows, templates, metadata, permissions, and user training. Keep it easy for employees to find what they need.
• Rebuild Faeth's contracting process so that anyone who needs a contract knows exactly what to do. Learn our AI-assisted intake tool, test it, and tune it until it works.
• Maintain the template library, add agreement types as needed, and keep templates and playbooks current with best practice.
• Coordinate outside counsel and our consultant bench on specialist questions.
• Use and improve our AI tools and bring ideas for doing this work better.
• As contract volume allows, take on legal operations work: vendor review, employee training on contracting, and process improvement.

Skills

Biotech contract negotiation

Contract lifecycle management

AI tools in contracting

Legal operations coordination

Vendor/CRO agreement experience

Education

Paralegal certificate

Law degree (welcome)

Tools

Ironclad

Docusign

Job description

Faeth Therapeutics seeks an experienced Contracts Manager to join our legal team as the company’s first in-house contracts professional. Remote within the U.S., you will draft, redline, and negotiate a wide range of biotech agreements, and drive them from initial draft to signature and filing.

You will build playbooks, templates, and Ironclad workflows, focusing on protectable IP, confidentiality, data, and efficient processes.