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Contract Manager scaling commercial agreements, Ironclad workflows, and legal operations. Supporting Higgsfield AI’s rapidly growing generative video business across Legal, Finance, and GTM.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the full lifecycle of commercial agreements, including creator and influencer agreements, agency MSAs, PR and sponsorship agreements, content licensing, referral agreements, contractor and consulting agreements, NDAs, order forms, amendments, and vendor agreements
- Own contract intake across Growth, Marketing, PR, Recruiting, Finance, and B2B; route, prioritize, track, and drive requests through completion
- Independently draft, review, and negotiate NDAs within approved playbooks and fallbacks
- Prepare first drafts and markups of commercial agreements using templates and playbooks, escalating exceptions to Legal with clear recommendations
- Conduct final quality checks and coordinate Legal, Finance, and executive approvals before signature
- Route approved agreements through Ironclad and DocuSign and ensure executed agreements are properly filed
- Manage contracting SLAs, proactively flag delays, and maintain visibility into open matters
- Co-own the build and ongoing administration of Ironclad, including intake workflows, approval logic, templates, clause libraries, metadata, permissions, repository structure, and reporting
- Translate contracting playbooks into standardized clauses, approved fallbacks, escalation rules, and automated workflows
- Build and maintain self-service intake workflows and templates across B2B and non-B2B agreements
- Maintain permissions, record types, legacy agreements, and repository hygiene
- Troubleshoot workflow issues and partner with workflow engineers when technical support is required
- Build reporting around contract volume, cycle times, SLAs, and bottlenecks
- Support integrations and automation across Finance, Security, Slack, AI-assisted review, and other systems
- Onboard teams to Ironclad and create documentation that drives adoption
- Own matters from intake through execution, filing, and stakeholder communication
- Maintain accurate trackers and provide concise, proactive updates
- Identify and resolve gaps in templates, workflows, or processes
- Continuously improve contracting processes through workflows, automation, reporting, and AI tooling
Requirements:
- 5+ years in contract management, legal operations, or commercial operations
- Deep hands-on Ironclad experience building and launching workflows, templates, approvals, permissions, playbooks, and reporting; this is a must
- Experience scaling or cleaning up a CLM, including legacy migrations, record consolidation, and workflow rollouts
- Ability to independently negotiate NDAs and prepare first-pass commercial agreement markups using established playbooks
- Strong working knowledge of commercial agreements and contracting lifecycles
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and follow-through in a high-volume environment
- Strong judgment around applying playbooks, meeting SLAs, and knowing when to escalate to Legal
- Ability to collaborate across Legal, Finance, Growth, Recruiting, PR, and leadership
- Familiarity with automation and AI tools such as n8n and Claude
- Availability during agreed working hours with sufficient overlap with the relevant team’s time zone
- United States work location
- A law degree is not required
Benefits:
- Stock option program/equity participation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Opportunity to work on ambitious AI products with an experienced, fast-moving, international team
- Significant ownership and direct impact
- Professional growth opportunities
- Fully remote work
- Occasional business travel to the San Francisco office for team meetings, planning sessions, company events, and in-person collaboration
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