Contracts Manager

BitTorrent’s legal department is looking for a high-performing Contracts Manager to join our team. In this role, you will assume a wide range of responsibilities, all of which will require critical thinking, innovation, and integrity.

The Contracts Manager is responsible for drafting and negotiating various commercial agreements with BitTorrent’s customers and vendors. We are looking for someone with impeccable attention to detail, high energy, strong project management skills, outstanding oral and written negotiation skills, and a positive attitude.

Who you are committed to being:

• You have a positive attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-output, team-oriented, practical environment
• You demonstrate enthusiasm for solving problems and adding value to the company
• You are courteous, flexible, highly organized, competent, reliable, proactive and use independent judgment
• You are committed to your personal growth and development by actively seeking feedback and responding with action
• You are open and honest in communications with all stakeholders – legal colleagues, management, customers and others
• You are a strong negotiator with a proven track record of success
• You can manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity

What you’ll own:

• Analyze and interpret complex provisions in commercial agreements
• Negotiation (both written and verbal) of complex sales, professional services and data privacy agreements
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams during contract review, acting as a key contact for the legal department by providing guidance to internal and external customers on commonly requested edits, non-standard terms, policies, questions, etc.
• Review and revise complex, non-standard agreements to adhere to BitTorrent’s standard policies and procedures
• Manage workflow for contract review process for a variety of contract types, beginning with receipt of requests for contract creation through routing for signatures
• Execute assigned projects as determined by the needs of the legal department

Experience you’ll need:

• 6+ years of experience managing contracts (including drafting and negotiation) in a corporate environment
• Bachelor’s Degree with a strong academic record or equivalent work experience required; Master’s Degree or Juris Doctor preferred
• Ability to manage and deliver on a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively anticipating issues; particularly in a fast-paced corporate setting
• Must be a creative problem solver and capable project manager with an eye to best practices in legal operations and the ability to balance getting the deal done while protecting the company
• Experience in oral negotiations, project management, risk awareness, and issue escalation
• Strong business acumen with the ability to clearly recognize risk elements in business transactions, providing advice to operations teams in carrying out the terms of the contract, as needed
• Proficient in Word and Excel
• Experience with contract databases and integration
• Experience with electronic signature software, e.g., EchoSign, Docusign