Overview In this role you provide strategic legal counsel on procurement contracting, balancing business opportunities with risk. You collaborate across Legal, Procurement, Operations, IT, Marketing and HR to review and negotiate high volumes of diverse agreements. You'll help standardize contracts, templates, and playbooks while guiding teams through supplier relationships. This position supports the firm's mission by enabling efficient, compliant contracting at scale and fostering cross-functional partnerships.
Compensation / Benefits- annual discretionary bonus
- 401(k) plan
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- accrued paid time off starting at 20 days
- personal medical and parental leave
- up to 10 paid holidays
Responsibilities- Draft, negotiate, and review a wide variety of commercial and technical contracts (services, confidentiality, SaaS, licenses, events, HR/benefits, technical, AI-related)
- Streamline procurement and contracting processes through cross-functional collaboration
- Ensure complete and business-ready contract intake for legal review
- Provide guidance to Procurement on SLAs, training, playbooks, and practical legal advice
- Serve as trusted advisor on supplier contracts, risk, terms, and disputes
- Escalate complex legal and risk issues to firm counsel
- Help develop and maintain supplier contracting policies, standards, and compliance practices
- Monitor regulatory developments and propose proactive updates
- Develop and maintain firm-wide supplier contract templates
- Support contracting training and knowledge-sharing across the firm
- Foster a collaborative, respectful, and high-performing team environment
Key requirements- Juris Doctor with active license in at least one jurisdiction
- 5-7 years of relevant experience providing contract legal counseling
- Proven expertise drafting and negotiating supplier and technology contracts for global organizations
- Strong command of contract terms, regulatory requirements, IT, and data management
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across organizational levels
- Strong project, time, and change management abilities
- Discretion and ability to handle confidential information
- Ability to collaborate across Legal, Procurement, Operations, IT, Marketing and HR
- Experience with AI-related agreements (preferred)
- excellent communication
- relationship-building
- collaborative mindset
- supplier and technology contract drafting and negotiation
- IT and data management familiarity
- regulatory compliance awareness
