Paralegal
Join Tennr's legal team as the first paralegal, working directly with two attorneys on commercial contracts, contract lifecycle management, legal operations, and building scalable processes and resources for a high-growth health-tech company. Requires 5+ years paralegal/contracts experience with strong drafting, organizational, and proactive skills; healthcare/HIPAA and CLM tool familiarity preferred.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Review and draft commercial contracts, including SaaS subscription agreements, order forms, BAAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, and partnership agreements.
- Manage deal flow, maintain contract repository across SpotDraft, DocuSign, and Salesforce, including managing contract workflows end-to-end and tracking active contract obligations.
- Serve as the first point of escalation for routine contracting questions from Sales and Business Development, routing complex or novel issues to the attorneys.
- Support the procurement process and maintain visibility into vendor agreements and compliance requirements.
- Assist with corporate governance tasks, including maintaining corporate records and supporting board-related processes.
- Develop and maintain internal legal resources: contract playbooks, FAQ documents, written guidelines for teams.
- Create internal reference materials such as ambassador program documentation, product-specific walkthroughs, and compliance guides.
- Attend or distill notes from cross-functional meetings to identify emerging legal needs.
- Support compliance monitoring and documentation, helping to build and maintain records supporting Tennr's compliance programs, including HIPAA-related obligations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a paralegal, contracts specialist, or in a similar role within an in-house legal department or law firm, ideally supporting a technology or healthcare company.
- Hands-on experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts (SaaS, technology, or services agreements); understanding of how provisions interact.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with minimal supervision.
- Excellent legal writing skills for both contract markup and clear, usable internal documents and guidelines.
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management tools (SpotDraft, Ironclad, Agiloft, or similar) or demonstrated ability to learn new systems quickly.
- A proactive mindset: notice when a recurring question should become a written resource, when a process could be improved, or when a team needs support.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working in healthcare, health-tech, or a similarly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with HIPAA, BAA requirements, or healthcare data privacy.
- Experience with AI-assisted legal tools or contract review automation (e.g., building or configuring playbooks in AI-powered review platforms, designing automated intake or review workflows).
- Interest in or experience with process design and workflow automation for legal operations.
- Experience building self-service legal resources, internal knowledge bases, or intake workflows.
- Familiarity with Salesforce and DocuSign from an administrative or configuration perspective.
Skills
Contract Drafting, Contract Negotiation, Contract Review, Contract Management, Legal Operations, Spotdraft, Docusign, Salesforce, HIPAA, Baa, Nda, Saas Agreements, Vendor Agreements
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