Real Estate Contracts Manager

The role

The Real Estate Contracts Manager will own the day-to-day lifecycle of routine real estate agreements and the systems behind them. You will partner with Legal, Real Estate, Site Acquisition, and Site Development to enable site-contract execution and obligation management.

What you will do

• Manage standard real estate agreements from intake through closeout.
• Draft, redline, and negotiate routine leases, amendments, access agreements, licenses, consents, notices, assignments, LOIs, term sheets, and site-related agreements.
• Resolve routine contracting issues and escalate nonstandard terms or material risk to attorneys.
• Build and maintain templates, clause libraries, fallback positions, approval workflows, intake forms, signature processes, and escalation matrices.
• Serve as the day-to-day contact for landlords, brokers, property managers, outside counsel, vendors, and internal teams.
• Maintain an accurate, searchable repository and report contract status, deadlines, and issues.
• Improve CLM, document-management, and lease-administration workflows.

Required qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant real estate industry experience, including direct experience with leasing contracts and lease administration.
• Ability to draft, negotiate, and administer routine real estate agreements, including leases, amendments, access agreements, licenses, and related documents.
• Experience using contract lifecycle management, document-management, or lease-administration tools.
• Sound judgment about when to apply approved positions independently and when to escalate risk.
• Strong organization and project-management skills.
• Clear, practical communication and the ability to build productive relationships.
• Ability to work full-time in person from Zipline’s South San Francisco headquarters.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Overtime pay
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Paid time off

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to work in the United States

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine and essential goods.