Senior Vendor Contracts Lead — Remote, Equity

Supabase; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

ESOP

Tech Allowance

Health insurance

Annual off-sites

Flexible work

Education allowance

Job summary

Supabase is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to own vendor contracting end to end in a fully remote role. You will draft, negotiate, and govern MSAs, SOWs, DPAs, NDAs with US and international vendors, using Claude and Ironclad daily to move faster while protecting the business.

You will design playbooks, triage processes with FinOps and Security, and scale contracting across a fast-growing platform. The ideal candidate has 6–8+ years of experience, strong writing, and the judgment to escalate

Qualifications

• 6 to 8+ years of experience negotiating procurement, vendor, or technology transactions contracting, ideally buy-side at a U.S. SaaS or tech company.
• Track record negotiating directly with vendors and their counsel, independently and at pace.
• Strong working knowledge of privacy, data protection, and security terms in commercial contracts, including DPA negotiation and international data transfers.
• Experience designing contracting processes that are consistent, transparent, and easy for the business to follow.
• Clear writing and speaking, with the ability to explain risk plainly and the judgment to escalate.
• Comfort using AI tools, Claude in particular, with sound judgment about when to rely on outputs.

Responsibilities

• Own vendor contracting end to end.
• Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of vendor agreements, including MSAs, order forms, SOWs, SaaS and cloud subscription terms, DPAs, and NDAs.
• Serve as the single point of contact for all vendor contracting matters from intake through signature, renewals, amendments, disputes, and offboarding.
• Apply and build out our playbook and risk framework independently, and upscale the Assistant General Counsel, Commercial where needed.
• Negotiate data, privacy, and security terms (DPAs, security exhibits, cross-border transfers) within the Security team’s playbook.
• Review AI vendor terms, such as training on our data, output ownership, and model changes.
• Build out and maintain vendor playbook in Claude, and design intake, triage, and approval workflows with FinOps.
• Own the vendor and procurement workflow in Ironclad, including intake, templates, approvals, and the repository.
• Create training and self-serve resources for business partners, and raise the visibility of contracts as a business enabler.

Job description

Supabase is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to own vendor contracting end to end in a fully remote role. You will draft, negotiate, and govern MSAs, SOWs, DPAs, NDAs with US and international vendors, using Claude and Ironclad daily to move faster while protecting the business.

You will design playbooks, triage processes with FinOps and Security, and scale contracting across a fast-growing platform. The ideal candidate has 6–8+ years of experience, strong writing, and the judgment to escalate