The Senior Contracts Manager will lead the commercial contracting function, managing a diverse portfolio of agreements while advising cross-functional teams on risk and negotiation strategies.
Senior Commercial Counsel
📜 Description
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts with customers and vendors.
- Document learnings to create a long-term knowledge management system.
- Manage processes to improve efficiency in contracting, including self-serve options.
- Support legal functions in compliance, customer success, and employment matters.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years of experience independently drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts
- Excellent legal writing skills, with the judgment to communicate complex terms clearly and concisely
- Sound judgment operating in ambiguity, comfortable making calls without a clear precedent
- Demonstrated ability to work and make decisions autonomously, operating within parameters set in partnership with leadership
- Strong ability to prioritize and focus effort on the highest impact work across a demanding caseload
- Confidence to ask questions and seek input, balanced with the self awareness to push your own limits
- Proven business acumen and commercial judgment
- Track record of building trusted relationships cross functionally and directly with customers
- Intellectual curiosity that drives you to solve problems, not just find answers
- Comfortable operating with urgency and pace in a fast moving environment
Full job description
Opportunity & Impact
The Commercial Counsel will play an integral role in supporting the legal function across Redox and becoming a trusted partner and advisor to all business segments. While this role will primarily be partnering with Redox's sales team to negotiate and close deals at pace with acceptable risk, it will also be responsible for supporting all teams in engaging with outside vendors. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, this role will provide the right candidate with the opportunity to grow and expand their expertise across all corporate legal functions.
Job Responsibilities:
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts (including customer facing and vendors).
Document learnings to create a long term knowledge management system for future Redoxers.
Participate in or manage the process to create efficiency in contracting, including self serve options for sales and other parts of Redox.
Support the legal functions in other business areas as required, including compliance, customer success and employment matters.
Required Skills & Experience:
5+ years of experience independently drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts
Excellent legal writing skills, with the judgment to communicate complex terms clearly and concisely
Sound judgment operating in ambiguity, comfortable making calls without a clear precedent
Demonstrated ability to work and make decisions autonomously, operating within parameters set in partnership with leadership
Strong ability to prioritize and focus effort on the highest impact work across a demanding caseload
Confidence to ask questions and seek input, balanced with the self awareness to push your own limits
Proven business acumen and commercial judgment
Track record of building trusted relationships cross functionally and directly with customers
Intellectual curiosity that drives you to solve problems, not just find answers
Comfortable operating with urgency and pace in a fast moving environment
Team oriented mindset, ready to pitch in wherever needed
Fluency with AI tools (e.g., Claude) to drive efficiency in contract drafting, review, and knowledge management, as Redox is an AI forward company
Who you'll be engaging with:
Redox's sales team, as the primary partner for negotiating and closing deals
The General Counsel, as this role's direct manager
Compliance, customer success, and employment teams, for legal support across the business
Nice to have in your background:
SaaS background a plus, but not a requirement
Working knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a serious plus, but not a requirement
Specific Software Platform/Tools:
Required: Microsoft Word (redlining functions), Zoom
Preferred: Salesforce, Linksquares, Claude
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