About the Role
We’re hiring for a Contracts Specialist! Want to have an impact at one of the fastest-growing companies in the Bay Area? Join the Legal team at Fivetran! Fivetran was recently named to the Cloud 100 list as one of the hottest cloud software companies today. We’re looking for a detail-oriented Contracts Specialist to join our global SaaS company and growing Legal team. This person will be a key team player supporting our rapidly growing go-to-market team, can be based remotely, and must be located in Eastern Standard Time.
What You’ll Do
- An unparalleled opportunity to bring your commercial contracts skills and business acumen to help us meet the expanding needs of our company and our customers within a fast-moving, focused, and collaborative environment.
- Review high volume of customer order forms in various stages of negotiation. Working collaboratively with Commercial Legal attorneys, Deal Desk, Finance and other stakeholders to ensure that order forms are being processed in accordance with internal controls in a timely manner.
- Experienced with commercial contracts, including review, revision and negotiation of master subscription agreements, NDA's, DPA’s and all types of amendments.
- Assist with due diligence and compliance responsibilities relating to the Commercial Legal function
- Respond to a range of questions, and provide support to business partners, regarding Fivetran’s commercial contracts, negotiating positions, and related processes.
- Help build and maintain contracting playbooks, contract templates and clause libraries, legal process wikis, training materials, and other tools to help scale the legal function.
- Lead or assist with projects to increase the efficiency of the commercial legal function.
- The ability to thrive in an ever-changing environment that’s filled with ambiguity and to independently manage multiple projects with competing deadlines;
- Other special projects given your interest areas and the needs of a rapidly scaling company & team
Skills we’re looking for
- Deep experience with commercial contracts, including review and negotiations of master subscription agreements, NDAs, DPA’s and all types of amendments.
- 4+ years of in-house contract management experience, including experience with SaaS, software, and other technology companies.
- Cross-functional experience working with stakeholders (including Finance, Deal Desk,Sales Security or Privacy) on contract requirements;
- Prolific documenter of processes, business rules, FAQ’s, and other supporting documentation for internal and external consumption.
- Strong familiarity with contract management systems (preferably Ironclad).
- Ability to draft and negotiate a broad range of inbound and outbound agreements.
- The ability to issue spot and assess legal risks and communicate both to business partners in straight forward terms (non-legalese).
- A proactive, can-do approach to contract review, focused on practical solutions and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Excellent bedside manner with internal and external clients is essential;
- A belief and practice that no task is too big or too small
- A customer service orientation and attention to detail
- Curiosity that drives a desire to learn new contexts and communication styles;
- Comfort with fast-paced environments and openness to change
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