Senior Contracts Administrator

PowerSchool; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Insurance Coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term Disability

Unrestricted paid time off (DTO)

Job summary

PowerSchool is seeking a Senior Contracts Administrator to support North America sales and renewals, reviewing and negotiating a high volume of commercial agreements while mitigating risk.

You will collaborate with Legal, Sales, Finance, Compliance, and other teams to address complex contracting needs and evolving privacy considerations in a technology environment.

Qualifications

• Draft and negotiate high-volume commercial agreements.
• Assess and communicate material legal and business risks.
• Draft clear, concise contracts and legal responses.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal counsel to support North America sales and renewals.
• Review and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements.
• Identify risks and propose practical solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Respond to RFPs and RFIs with timely, accurate contract language.
• Integrate acquired companies’ agreements when needed.
• Improve contracting workflows and templates for efficiency.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Data privacy basics

Legal writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Salesforce

CLM platforms

Jira

Fresh Service

Coupa

Job description

About PowerSchool
At PowerSchool, we power education for students around the world. As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software, we support the full education ecosystem—from the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators, students, and families.

Team Overview

Our Legal team serves as proactive advisors and business partners, enabling effective legal and operational solutions in support of PowerSchool's vision. This includes providing advice on company strategies and implementation, supporting complex business transactions, and negotiating critical contracts.

Responsibilities

Description

The Commercial Legal team manages the full lifecycle of PowerSchool’s commercial agreements, supporting transactions with customers, vendors, and partners while enabling the business to move efficiently and responsibly manage risk.

This role sits at the intersection of commercial contracting, revenue generation, and business enablement. As a Senior Contracts Administrator, you will play a key role in supporting high-impact business relationships while helping strengthen PowerSchool’s approach to contracting, compliance, and risk management.

You will partner closely with North America Sales, Renewal Operations, Customer Success, Order Management, Finance, compliance and multiple other internal teams to review and negotiate agreements and support North America sales and renewal contracting processes. This is a highly collaborative and visible role that offers exposure to complex commercial transactions and evolving privacy considerations in a technology environment.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a vital member on the company’s legal team primarily responsible for providing legal assistance and counseling to support North America sales and renewals. This includes triaging issues, establishing priorities and escalating complex issues to the Attorney Lead as needed in support of these functions.
• Own the review, drafting, and negotiation of a high volume of commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with business goals while mitigating risk.
• Identify risks and recommend commercially practical solutions in collaboration with attorneys and senior team members, including identifying operational, legal, business and information privacy and security risks in agreements.
• Review and prepare contractual and legal responses to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs) as needed.
• Support the integration of acquired companies’ commercial agreements, as needed.
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve both routine and complex business issues through collaboration with cross ‑ functional stakeholders.
• Support contract lifecycle management processes, including maintaining templates, extracting key terms, and managing executed agreements within contract systems.
• Contribute to improvements in contracting workflows, templates, and processes to increase efficiency and scalability.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervising attorney or Chief Legal Officer to support Legal Department’s strategic objectives.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of relevant professional experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and administration, preferably with a privately held company, publicly traded company, and/or top law firm.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; additional experience may be substituted for an advanced degree.
• Demonstrated ability to independently and confidently draft and negotiate, with minimal supervision, a high volume of commercial agreements of varying complexity under time constraints, including:
• Master services and professional services agreements
• SaaS and software license agreements, including service level agreements (SLAs)
• Statements of work
• Partnership, reseller, distribution, strategic alliance, procurement, and vendor agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
• Proven ability to manage stakeholder and customer escalations and to resolve issues effectively and pragmatically
• Solid understanding of intellectual property concepts and technology licensing, with experience in the software industry.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify material legal and business issues, assess risk, and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly summarize complex issues and risks.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast ‑ paced environment.
• Ability to identify basic data privacy and information security issues.
• Prior experience working in a high ‑ volume, high ‑ impact, high-velocity contracting environment with customers, vendors, partners, and other third parties.
• Ability to come into the office 3 desiganted days a week (Tues-Wed-Thurs).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with government entities or municipalities.
• Experience negotiating service level agreements (SLAs) and agreements involving artificial intelligence or emerging technologies.
• Working knowledge of data privacy laws and experience negotiating data protection and privacy ‑ related agreements.
• Familiarity with intellectual property and technology licensing concepts
• Experience with integration projects post-acquisition
• Experience with contract lifecycle management tools and systems (e.g., Salesforce, CLM platforms, Jira, Fresh Service, Coupa).
• Law or paralegal degree certification.

What Success Looks Like

• You effectively manage a high volume of agreements with strong attention to detail and sound judgment
• You build trusted relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and approach challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset
• You balance speed and risk, helping the business move forward while ensuring compliance
• You contribute to improving processes and tools that enhance team efficiency and scalability
• You demonstrate increasing confidence and efficiency in identifying and addressing legal, privacy, compliance and other cross-border considerations

Why Join PowerSchool Legal

This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in commercial contracting while gaining meaningful exposure to data privacy, regulatory compliance, and global legal operations. You will play a key role in enabling business growth while developing skills that position you for future advancement within the Legal organization.

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
• Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $88,000 - $110,000 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

EEO Commitment

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail].