Legal Contracts Manager

The award-winning Upwork Legal & Policy team aims to be a highly cohesive and communicative team that, among other things, loves to work on cutting-edge legal issues, generate creative business solutions to enable the company’s continued growth in a compliant manner, enable the new world of remote work for millions of independent professionals and clients globally in over 180 countries, and has a passion for what we do.  The Upwork legal team won The Recorder’s prestigious 2016 Legal Department of the Year (Emerging Companies) award and the 2021 American Legal Technology Award for Law Department of the Year.  The team has also been recognized by The Financial Times as One of Top 25 Most Innovative In-House Legal Teams in North America.

This unique in-house opportunity is tailor-made for a contracts manager who enjoys autonomy and thrives on making an impact.   You will be the company’s first contracts manager directly supporting the sales growth org which manages and supports Upwork’s existing enterprise customers.  You will work closely with Upwork’s commercial attorneys and others on the legal team to assist our sales org with contract needs and improvements to  existing processes and procedures.  You will lead the review, negotiation, documentation and analysis of a broad range of sales agreements, including master subscription agreements, renewals, amendments, statements of work, change orders, and other agreements required by customers, and will directly interface with internal clients and cross functional partners.

The Upwork Legal & Policy team is one that believes each of its team members is super equipped to figure out the hardest problems with minimal supervision.  The team prides itself on being enablers for the business, our colleagues, and our users—their success is our success.  The team also likes to laugh a bunch too.  We are not micromanagers, not know-it-alls, and not empire builders.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work directly with internal partners and external parties to draft, review, and/or consult on a range of commercial agreements.
• Help the commercial team scale, working within the legal department and cross functionally to prepare, implement, and refine forms, playbooks, systems, trainings, processes, and procedures.

What it takes to catch our eye:

• 4+ years of work experience in agreement review, negotiation, drafting, management, and administration.
• Experience reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing agreements including: master agreements, renewals, amendments, order forms, data privacy addendums, NDAs, SOWs, etc.
• Ability to understand legal, risk and business impacts to contract language.
• Ability to independently identify issues, identify and triage the impact and urgency of agreement issues, and understand the business and business objectives.
• Prior in-house experience, especially at a high growth tech / SaaS company.

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