Contracts Manager

Company: Anthropic Limited
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

About the role
Join the team making AI safe.
Anthropic is seeking a highly qualified Contracts Manager to support commercial and technology transactions. We'll rely on you to help review, draft and negotiate commercial and procurement contracts to support our cutting-edge AI systems, build scalable contracting processes, and collaborate across Product, Sales, Finance, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams.
Responsibilities:

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• Draft, analyze, negotiate and complete complex commercial transactions with the company's enterprise customers, vendors and strategic partners, including IP licensing agreements and procurement agreements.
  
• Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency.
  
• Lead contract request lifecycle across team, from initial intake to final execution, ensuring efficient triaging, routing, and management of all inbound requests.
  
• Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes, identify potential risks, and drive continuous improvement in contract handling efficiency.
  
• Collaborate with the Product, Sales, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic, business-minded, and solutions-focused counsel.
  
• As a relatively small legal team supporting big things, each legal team member practices across multiple areas. We'd love to hear where else you'd be interested to pitch in, whether as a function of your experience or interests.
  
  You might be a good fit if:
  
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  • You have experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules "move to the left." You thrive in this dynamic environment and pride yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace.
    
  • You understand what's important in the context of a contract, the organization's mission, when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line.
    
  • You are excited to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function.
    
  • You prefer straightforward, concise explanations to legalese and overwrought drafting.
    
  • You have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
    
  • You thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies and want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building.
    
  • You are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
    
  • You are a "doer" and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done. You're a team player who doesn't hesitate to jump in to do work that needs to get done whether glamorous or not.
    
    Strong candidates may have:
    
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    • 5+ years of related contract management experience, with at least 3 years of experience supporting technology transactions or partnerships.
      
    • Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions to facilitate efficient contracting processes and execution while building strong relationships.
      
    • Substantive knowledge of software agreements, reseller agreements, services agreements, strategic partnerships, and intellectual property i.e. patent, trade secret, copyright licensing arrangements.
      
    • Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
      
    • Motivated self-starter able to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
      
    • Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business.
      
      We are open to candidates with more or less experience and tailoring title, scope of responsibilities, and compensation accordingly.
      
      Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
      Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.
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