Contract Specialist, Principal

The role

The Contract Specialist, Principal will support the Legal team by owning first-pass review and drafting of routine commercial agreements. This role manages contract intake, workflows, and the maintenance of contract templates and systems.

What you will do

• Conduct first-pass review and redlining of NDAs, vendor agreements, SaaS contracts, and standard services agreements using established playbooks
• Draft contracts from approved templates and apply appropriate fallback positions
• Escalate non-standard, complex, or high-risk issues to the Associate General Counsel
• Triage incoming contract requests and route them appropriately
• Maintain contract status trackers, including execution, renewals, and expirations
• Ensure complete documentation prior to execution
• Keep contract templates current and aligned with Legal's risk posture
• Update playbooks and fallback language in coordination with attorneys
• Maintain a clean, organized clause library to support efficient negotiation
• Coordinate signature packets and associated workflows

Required qualifications

• 3–7+ years of experience reviewing, redlining, and managing commercial contract lifecycles
• Strong working knowledge of NDAs, vendor agreements, and services contracts
• Demonstrated experience conducting high-volume NDA review and redlining independently
• Comfortable redlining against playbooks and applying fallback language independently
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
• Able to manage multiple contracts and deadlines simultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with contract lifecycle management tools and e-signature platforms (e.g., HelloSign, DocuSign)
• Sound judgment in identifying when to escalate legal or risk issues

About the company

Hut 8 builds infrastructure for AI and aims to be the defining physical infrastructure company of its generation.