Senior Manager, Legal Contracts and Operations
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Senior Manager of Legal Contracts managing legal operations at The Channel Company. Overseeing contract management and optimizing legal workflows in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle for all commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, sponsorship agreements, event contracts, and vendor agreements
- Build and manage the company's contract management system, implementing CLM tools and establishing intake, review, and approval workflows
- Conduct first-pass review of commercial agreements against company templates and approved fallback positions, escalating non-standard terms to the General Counsel
- Under the direction of the General Counsel, develop and maintain the company's template library, playbooks, and clause banks for high-volume agreement types
- Track and manage contract obligations, renewal dates, and key milestones across the portfolio
- Identify and implement legal technology solutions to scale the department's capacity
- Support corporate governance, entity management, and regulatory compliance filings
- Leverage AI-enabled tools and workflows to increase legal department efficiency, including CLM playbook automation and contract review optimization
- Serve as the central point of contact for the legal department, managing the legal, compliance, and contracts inboxes, triaging requests, and ensuring timely responses to internal and external stakeholders
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Events, and Finance teams to streamline legal touchpoints and reduce bottlenecks
- Support legal needs for sales and live events, including venue contracts, speaker agreements, sponsor agreements, and on-site vendor arrangements
- Manage legal department scheduling, meeting coordination, and preparation of agendas, presentations, and briefing materials for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in legal operations, contracts management, or as a paralegal in a corporate legal department or law firm
- Strong experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts (technology, media, or events industry preferred)
- Familiarity with data privacy agreements and frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, state privacy laws)
- Experience with or strong interest in CLM platforms
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage a high volume of agreements simultaneously
- Excellent judgment on when to escalate and when to run independently
- Strong communicator who can translate legal concepts for business stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree required; paralegal certificate or legal operations certification (e.g., CLOC, ACC) strongly preferred.
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- tele-health
- disability
- life insurance
- health savings accounts
- paid parental leave
- company matched 401k
- unlimited PTO
- sick time
- 15 company paid holidays
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