Senior Manager, Legal Operations & Contract

Treaty Oak Clean Energy; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K

Annual bonus

Job summary

Treaty Oak Clean Energy, LLC in Austin, TX, is seeking a Sr. Manager, Contract Lifecycle & Legal Operations to lead end-to-end contracting, ensure compliance, and optimize processes across the Legal team.

You will coordinate reviews, manage templates, and drive data-driven improvements to support renewable energy projects. The role requires 7+ years in contract management or legal operations, with a track record in in-house settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required; paralegal certification preferred.
• 7+ years in contract management or legal operations in-house or similar.
• Experience with CLM platforms and legal tech.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end contract lifecycle for NDAs, MSAs, task orders, and other agreements.
• Coordinate contract reviews, consolidate comments, and drive execution.
• Develop and improve legal workflows, templates, and knowledge resources.
• Manage CLM administration and user adoption, data quality, and reporting.
• Partner with Development, Procurement, Finance, and Operations to ensure timely contracting.

Skills

Contract management

Legal operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Job description

Title: Sr. Manager, Contract Lifecycle & Legal Operations

Company Overview

Treaty Oak Clean Energy, LLC (Treaty Oak) is a clean energy platform focused on developing, commercializing, building and operating utility-scale solar plus battery storage projects in targeted US energy markets. Our mission is to create a sustainable future by providing clean, low-cost energy solutions to the grid benefiting energy consumers, communities, and generations to come. Treaty Oak is a wholly-owned portfolio company of Macquarie Asset Management (Macquarie), pairing Treaty Oak's renewables development expertise with Macquarie's capital backing.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Treaty Oak's portfolio consists of 20 GW+ of in development and in construction utility scale renewable projects across the United States. Treaty Oak features an experienced management team with a track record of developing and commercializing 9 GW+ of utility-scale power projects and a collective 100+ years’ experience across critical competencies, including power markets, offtake structuring, design, engineering and real estate.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Sr. Manager, Contract Lifecycle & Legal Operations to join our Legal team. The Sr. Manager, Contract Lifecycle & Legal Operations will play a critical role in ensuring timely preparation, review, and management of all contract-related documentation; compliance with regulatory and project requirements, and effective coordination with internal and external stakeholders. The Sr. Manager, Contract Lifecycle & Legal Operations will drive efficient contract processing, execution, and tracking by the Legal team. The ideal candidate will have experience in the energy sector, a strong background in contract management, excellent organizational skills, and a passion for supporting renewable energy initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Contract Lifecycle Leadership: Own and oversee the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including intake, review coordination, approvals, execution, storage, renewal, and closeout for non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, task orders, and other company agreements.
• Contract Review and Execution: Coordinate the review of complex contracts by routing provisions to appropriate stakeholders, consolidating comments, tracking issues to resolution, and shepherding final documents through execution.
• Legal Operations: Develop, document, and continuously improve Legal team workflows, service standards, intake procedures, approval paths, and operating processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and accountability.
• Contract Lifecycle Management Technology: Own the administration, optimization, and user adoption of contract lifecycle management and related legal technology platforms, including workflows, permissions, document libraries, data quality, and reporting.
• Templates and Knowledge Management: Partner with attorneys to maintain contract templates, clause libraries, playbooks, legal correspondence, policies, and centralized knowledge resources.
• Risk, Compliance, and Escalation: Support compliance with company policies and applicable requirements, identify contractual or process risks, and elevate legal or business issues to the appropriate attorney or stakeholder.
• Outside Counsel and Legal Spend: Administer outside counsel engagement and spending, including engagement letters, billing guidelines, invoice review, accruals, budget tracking, and spend reporting.
• Metrics and Reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and performance metrics for contract volume, cycle time, renewals, obligations, legal spend, and other Legal team priorities; provide regular updates to senior management.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a primary operational partner to Development, Procurement, Finance, Operations, and other teams to support timely contracting and company-wide adherence to contracting procedures.
• Process Improvement and Change Management: Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and simplify legal and contracting processes and lead implementation and adoption across the organization.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, finance, operations, or a related field required. Paralegal certification, Certified Legal Manager credential, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in contract management, legal operations, commercial contracting, procurement, paralegal services, or a related field, including experience supporting an in-house legal department or similarly complex organization.

Soft Skills

• Leadership and Ownership: Demonstrated ability to independently own complex workflows, establish priorities, and drive work to completion.
• Business Judgment: Sound judgment in identifying risks, resolving operational issues, and determining when matters require attorney or executive escalation.
• Communication and Influence: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Operational Excellence: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Systems and Data Orientation: Comfort using technology, metrics, and reporting to improve visibility, consistency, and decision-making.
• Collaboration and Service: Collaborative, responsive, and practical approach to supporting internal clients and external partners.
• Adaptability and Initiative: Proactive problem solver who seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and adapts effectively to changing business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry Experience: Experience in renewable energy, power, infrastructure, construction, project development, or another contract-intensive industry.
• Legal Operations Experience: Experience building or maturing legal operations processes within an in-house legal department.
• CLM and Legal Technology: Demonstrated experience implementing, administering, or optimizing a contract lifecycle management platform or related legal technology.
• Contracting Knowledge: Working knowledge of commercial contract terms and experience supporting agreements such as non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, task orders, consulting agreements, procurement agreements, and construction-related contracts.
• Outside Counsel Management: Experience with legal budgeting, accruals, invoice review, billing guidelines, and outside counsel spend management.
• Reporting and Automation: Experience developing dashboards, metrics, standardized templates, workflow automation, or document-management solutions.

Our Values

• Integrity: We do what we say we are going to do.
• Collaboration: We know that we are better together.
• Ambition: We embrace challenge and excellence.
• Adaptability: We find solutions and never quit.
• Safety: We effectively identify and manage risk.

Employee Benefits

• The salary for this position is highly competitive and commensurate with experience.
• We offer competitive benefits, including unlimited paid time off, paid holidays, cell-phone stipend, 401K and a fully paid health benefits plan for employees, including Medical, Dental, and Vision.

Treaty Oak is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Treaty Oak operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.