Contracts Manager, Procurement

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable Legal strives to provide proactive, realistic, and strategic advice that drives maximum business impact and reflects Airtable’s integrity, creativity, and ambition. This Contracts Manager, Procurement position presents a unique opportunity to be a part of our talented legal team! This role will also offer the opportunity to hone and apply skills in other legal areas, including commercial, AI, privacy, and product.

Responsibilities

• Manage the legal team’s approach to vendor contracting, including:
  • Reviewing and negotiating legal terms in vendor agreements for technology/SaaS, professional services, event services, consulting, and other products and services.
  • Building and maintaining contracting playbooks, contract templates and clause libraries, legal process wikis, training materials, and other tools to help scale the legal function, with an emphasis on vendor contracting.
  • Building and maintaining Airtable’s contracts repository.
  • Developing data-driven insights regarding the company’s commercial contracting operations.
  • Working closely with cross-functional partners, including Airtable’s Product and Engineering teams, to ensure that technology incorporated into Airtable’s software aligns with legal, security, subprocessor, and customer requirements.
• Collaborate with teams across Airtable for the review and approval of procurement requests, including procurement, finance, IT, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Providing support for procure-to-pay process optimization and automation projects.
• Respond to a range of questions, and provide support to cross-functional partners, regarding Airtable’s commercial contracts, negotiating positions, and related processes and strategies.
• Help enhance and participate in projects to increase the efficiency of commercial legal support.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of in-house contracts management experience, including experience with a SaaS or other technology company.
• Passionate about commercial contracting and have demonstrated experience reviewing, negotiating, and drafting the legal terms in a broad range of commercial contracts.
• Experience working with AI vendors, particularly in the context of SaaS products, and understand the legal, security, and compliance considerations involved. Familiarity with AI contracting, including the distinctions between generative AI and traditional machine learning, and how these distinctions impact software agreements.
• Ability to draft documents, policies, emails, and anything else in a precise and digestible manner.

Application Instructions

• Not specified in the provided text. (Please refer to Airtable's career website for application instructions.)