Contract Management Lead
Build and operate an AI-led contracting help desk, owning the CLM platform, workflows, playbooks, coordinator enablement, and performance measurement. The role requires strong commercial contracting judgment, legal-language fluency, AI workflow experience, and a product-management mindset.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for an AI-led contracting help desk covering contract intake, triage, and lifecycle management.
- Build and improve an AI-enabled contracting framework with agent-assisted drafting, clause and fallback recommendations, negotiation guidance, risk detection, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
- Own the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform and system of record, including workflows, approved templates, playbooks, metadata, reporting, and integrations with procurement tools and repositories.
- Enable sourcing coordinators to lead day-to-day negotiations and agreement execution through training, clear ownership, service levels, and operational support.
- Partner with Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Finance to define approval guardrails, resolve escalations, and deploy AI responsibly.
- Pilot emerging CLM and AI capabilities; measure cycle time, automation, quality, coordinator delivery, and stakeholder adoption; and use those insights to improve the service.
Requirements
- Experience building or deploying AI-enabled agents, automation, or decision-support workflows.
- Practical understanding of evaluation, human review, confidentiality, and operational safeguards.
- Product-management approach, including identifying user needs, defining roadmaps, prioritizing workflows, launching pilots, and using data and feedback for continuous improvement.
- Strong commercial contracting and legal-language judgment.
- Experience implementing or owning a CLM platform, including templates, clause libraries, integrations, reporting, and scalable workflows.
- Ability to build and run a service model that enables sourcing coordinators, clarifies ownership, tracks delivery, and escalates risk.
- Ability to build trusted cross-functional partnerships and bring structure, speed, and sound judgment to ambiguous, high-stakes operational problems.
Preferred Qualifications
- JD, law degree, or comparable legal background is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional equivalent experience may be considered.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Automation, Contract Lifecycle Management, Commercial Contracting, Contract Negotiation, Procurement, Workflow Design, Clause Libraries, Legal Operations, Product Management, Reporting, System Integrations, Human-In-The-Loop Review, Risk Detection
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