USD per year
Contracts and Legal Operations Manager
Sift is hiring a Contracts and Legal Operations Manager to help lead in both our legal contracts function and our legal operations evolution. This role will work closely with many Sift business groups, notably our sales and operations teams from a contracts perspective, and we are looking for the right person to manage our legal operations as we continue to grow, adopt increasing automation and AI tooling, and achieve our mission of helping companies to stop fraud before it happens.
About the role:
- Review and negotiate various buy and sell side contracts, including order forms, NDAs, and MSAs.
- Own the business procurement contract administration lifecycle, including from responding to and tracking inbound requests to finalizing agreements.
- Collaborate cross functionally, particularly with sales and sales operations to streamline the sales process and related deal cycles.
- Create and maintain key templates, playbooks, policies, and other knowledge materials.
- Track and report on department metrics to inform decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement and automation or AI driven work enhancements, re-imagined processes and creation of process collateral.
- Take on other duties that come up as part of a small legal and compliance team in a fast-paced environment.
Need to Have:
- Minimum of 5 years prior in-house work experience as a contracts manager; including a minimum of 3 years in-house at a B2B SaaS company focused on contracts administrator, legal operations or similar role with direct experience in managing and negotiating contracts.
- Experience using contract lifecycle management systems and other technology or AI based legal operations solutions.
- Experience with Salesforce.
- Demonstrable experience developing and implementing tools and processes to streamline and improve the legal function.
- Strong organizational, time, and project management skills; ability to handle high volume workloads balancing competing demands.
- Passion for organization, attention to detail, driving open matters to closure.
Nice to have:
- Prior experience working in high-growth companies.
- Project management experience sourcing/implementing legal team technology solutions (contract management/security/project management tools).
- Experience using Jira.
Let’s build it together:
At Sift we are intentionally building a diverse equitable inclusive workplace. We believe diversity drives innovation; equity is a fundamental right; inclusion is a basic human need. We envision a place where all Sifties feel secure sharing their authentic selves & diverse experiences with their teams/customers/community — ultimately using this empowerment & authenticity to build trust & create a safer Internet. This document provides transparency around how Sift handles personal data of job applicants: https://sift.com/recruitment-privacy
A little about us:
Sift is an AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses. Our deep investments in machine learning & user identity data scoring 1 trillion events per year empower more than 700 customers for growth & seamless consumer experiences. Visit us at sift.com & follow us on LinkedIn.
Sift Values: What We Stand For
Our values shape how we work & win together:
- Start With the Customer
- Courage Over Comfort
- Get Sift Done (Progress over perfection)
- Ever Better (Continuous improvement)
- Win As One Team (Teamwork)
Benefits:
Includes generous time off policies; mental health days; paid parental leave; employee equity; retirement savings plan; medical/dental/vision plans fully covered for individuals; learning & development opportunities.
Sift is an AI-powered fraud prevention platform that secures digital trust. It helps stop fraud fast and grow revenue faster by protecting the customer journey. Sift powers fraud prevention for 700+ global brands, exposing threats like account takeover, payment fraud, and first-party abuse with precise, split-second decisioning accuracy at scale. Industry leaders such as Poshmark, Swan Bitcoin, Harry’s, and Patreon rely on Sift to protect customers and preserve millions of dollars in revenue. Sift enables winning fraud teams to unlock more revenue while cutting risk. The platform leverages a global data network of approximately 1 trillion annual events representing 700+ global brands.
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