# Contract Management Lead

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $216k – $240k/yr
**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
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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