Sift
Contracts & Legal Ops Specialist
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 2 months ago · Found 5h ago
Been open since 2 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$90,000 to $125,000
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Finance
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - USA, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, California, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Sift is hiring a Contracts and Legal Operations Specialist to run our contracting process end to end, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements. AI tools will handle first-pass review and drafting on routine paper; you take it from there, negotiating and closing standard agreements independently and escalating anything complex or high-risk to legal counsel. You'll also own the contract automation and playbooks going forward, tuning them as the business changes. The role works closely with Deal Desk, Sales, and Partners from a contracts perspective, along with finance, security, privacy, marketing, and product.
What You'll Own
• Draft, negotiate, and close standard commercial agreements independently, including NDAs, order forms, standard renewals, and low-risk vendor and partner agreements, from first draft to signature.
• Review and finalize AI-generated first-pass redlines and clause extraction on incoming contracts before they go out to counterparties.
• Own the contract automation and playbooks over time: update clause libraries, adjust intake logic, and add new agreement types as the business changes.
• Manage vendor and procurement requests end to end: negotiate standard pricing and terms, track requests through Jira, and push back on terms that don't work for Sift.
• Manage the full contract lifecycle: intake, repository, renewals, approvals, and terminations.
• Coach Sales on standard terms and redlines so routine deals close without legal touching every file.
• Collaborate with Sales and Deal Desk to streamline the sales process and related deal cycles.
• Track and report on contract and vendor metrics.
• Triage inbound contracts and vendor requests, and escalate anything complex, high-risk, or outside standard terms to legal counsel.
• Take on other duties as part of a small, fast-moving legal and compliance team.
What You Bring
• 2+ years of experience in a contracts, legal operations, or deal desk role, ideally at a B2B SaaS company. No law degree required.
• Comfortable using AI tools daily to speed up drafting and review, not just occasionally.
• Good judgment on what's standard versus what needs to go to legal counsel.
• Experience with Salesforce and Jira.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the flexibility to handle volume and competing requests.
• Comfortable working in a role that's still being built, where the process and tooling will keep changing.
Nice to Have
• Prior legal, paralegal, or compliance experience.
• Experience with a CLM platform (e.g.,DocuSign Navigator, Ironclad, LinkSquares, Conga).
• Exposure to data privacy or DPA concepts (CPRA, GDPR).
• Experience in a fraud, risk, or trust & safety adjacent business.
Requirements
- ·• 2+ years of experience in a contracts, legal operations, or deal desk role, ideally at a B2B SaaS company. No law degree required.
- ·• Comfortable using AI tools daily to speed up drafting and review, not just occasionally.
- ·• Good judgment on what's standard versus what needs to go to legal counsel.
- ·• Experience with Salesforce and Jira.
- ·• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the flexibility to handle volume and competing requests.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Sift, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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