Contracts Manager
Scale is at the forefront of powering artificial intelligence. We believe that to build exceptional artificial intelligence, you need exceptional human intelligence. Scale operates the largest global platform of knowledge workers that help deliver the human intelligence needed to build artificial intelligence.
Scale is seeking a Contract Manager to support our commercial and public sector teams. In this role, you will help scale (pun intended!) the legal department by working closely with business and legal teams to review, draft, and negotiate agreements. As an essential member of the legal team, you will also help refine workflows, manage processes, and be a critical cross functional partner. We are looking for someone who is excited about developing processes, getting into the weeds in our contract data, and improving efficiency across the legal team.
You will:
- Work closely with commercial legal and public sector legal teams to manage and improve our contracting processes, including contract management systems and contracts signature systems
- Guide stakeholders in self-serve contracting processes as well as directly negotiate NDAs, vendor agreements, and other agreements
- Partner with cross functional partners to track ongoing obligations post-signature
- Help build and maintain internal processes, resources, and tools to help scale the legal function.
Ideally you'd have:
- Experience with a wide array of legal documents and contractual agreements, including NDAs, vendor agreements, and other commercial contracts
- Experience working with contract lifecycle management tools such as Ironclad.
- 5+ years of experience as a contracts manager, paralegal, or similar experience
- A roll-up your sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small and a collaborative, low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization
Nice to haves:
- Strong background working with SaaS or other technology companies
- Experience leading cross-functional projects from conception to launch
- A track record of taking initiative and being resourceful to accomplish ambitious goals
- Effective organizational skills and and ability to juggle many competing priorities
- Fluency with spreadsheets, basic statistics, and an ability to use data to drive decisions
- Experience working with various business tools such as Salesforce, Airtable, and Jira.
- Understanding of contract basics and a desire and willingness to learn
- Interest in AI, law, privacy, and intellectual property
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About Us:
At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
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