Contracts Manager/Senior Contracts Manager

The role

The Contracts Manager or Senior Contracts Manager will negotiate and manage company agreements end to end. This includes drafting, redlining, and negotiating directly with counterparties while managing the contract repository and processes.

What you will do

• Draft, redline, and negotiate company agreements directly with counterparties
• Apply playbooks with judgment regarding intellectual property, confidentiality, and data
• Own the timeline on every agreement and move them to signature quickly
• Triage contract requests across the company
• Build and maintain contract playbooks
• Route approvals, manage signatures, and file executed agreements in Ironclad
• Own and organize the contract repository in Ironclad
• Administer Ironclad workflows, templates, metadata, and user training
• Rebuild the contracting process and use AI-assisted intake tools
• Coordinate outside counsel and consultant bench

Required qualifications

• 5+ years negotiating and managing contracts at a biotech or pharmaceutical company, or at a law firm or CRO serving them, with most of your career in life sciences
• Direct, hands-on experience negotiating the standard biotech agreement set with counterparties
• Practical judgment for closing agreements quickly and protecting important terms
• Experience administering a contract lifecycle management system
• Track record of owning the administrative side of contracting
• Active, current use of AI tools in your work

Nice to have

• Ironclad Signature or Docusign experience
• public-company experience
• having built playbooks or a template library or led a CLM implementation
• exposure to clinical operations contracting
• broader legal operations experience
• A paralegal certificate or law degree

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a well-funded, clinical-stage biotech
• 100% remote work and flexible schedule
• Health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off
• Generous parental leave
• Traditional and Roth 401k

Before you apply

• All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check and verification of eligibility to work in the United States

About the company

Faeth Therapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology company listed on Nasdaq. It is a small, focused team advancing a multi-node PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitor program.