Role OverviewWe're looking for a Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist to join our Legal team as we build out the function from the ground up. Reporting to the Head of Legal Operations, you'll be a hybrid player. Hands-on with contract review, negotiation, and drafting support, while also helping design and run the systems and processes that let Legal scale as CHAOS grows across its business units.
What You Will Do
Review vendor/commercial contracts and NDAs, drafting and negotiating directly with counterparties and escalating novel or high-risk issues to counsel. Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, applying standard playbook positions and knowing when a deviation needs legal sign-off.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You'll help shape how contracts move through our organization — from intake through execution — at a company that's actively building its legal infrastructure rather than inheriting one already in place. Expect genuine range: reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements one day, refining intake workflows or outside counsel reporting the next.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and/or paralegal certificate
- 4+ years of experience in contracts management, legal operations, or a similar operational/legal support role in a technology, aerospace/defense, or similarly regulated environment
- Demonstrated experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating vendor contracts and NDAs independently, with good judgment on when to escalate to counsel
- Hands-on experience building or administering workflows in a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform; e-signature and e-billing tooling experience preferred
- Systems experience beyond CLM — ticketing/intake systems, document management platforms, or productivity suites
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to manage projects and drive cross-functional initiatives
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and written/verbal communication — comfortable building structure where none exists and interfacing directly with stakeholders and counterparties
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership; high discretion handling confidential and commercially sensitive information
Benefits
- Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
- 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay)
- FSA
- HSA
- Life insurance
- Free daily lunch
- ‘No meeting Fridays’
- Unlimited PTO
- Casual dress code
- Relocation assistance
- Annual bonuses
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