Contracts Specialist, Senior

Senior Contracts Specialist

aPriori is seeking an experienced Senior Contracts Specialist to join our Legal team. This is a hands-on, operationally focused role responsible for managing the full lifecycle of aPriori's commercial agreements — from initial intake, review, and redlining through execution, tracking, and repository maintenance. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in commercial contract operations, proficiency with CLM systems and AI-powered workflows, and the sound judgment to work independently while knowing when to escalate.

This role supports a global sales organization and will require occasional flexibility outside standard US business hours to accommodate colleagues and customers in EMEA and APAC time zones as needed to support time-sensitive transactions and negotiations.

Location:

Greater Boston, MA

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary administrator and power user of aPriori's CLM system (currently Linksquares), ensuring the platform is accurately configured, up to date, and fully adopted across the contracts function
• Identify and implement AI-powered workflows, automation tools, and process improvements to increase throughput, reduce cycle times, and improve contract quality and visibility
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures to support contract intake, review, negotiation, execution, and post-signature compliance
• Partner with aPriori's Deal Desk to ensure all order documentation — including Order Documents, SOWs, and related attachments — is accurate, complete, and executed on time
• Prepare fully negotiated agreements for execution by authorized signatories; this role does not carry independent authority to bind aPriori contractually
• Serve as a knowledgeable resource for the sales team on aPriori's standard contract terms and processes, driving deal velocity without sacrificing quality
• Maintain and continuously improve aPriori's contracts repository, ensuring all fully executed agreements and amendments are properly organized, tagged, and searchable
• Enforce data hygiene standards within the CLM system, including metadata completeness, renewal and expiration date tracking, and counter party information accuracy
• Generate reports and dashboards from the CLM system to provide Legal and Finance leadership with visibility into contract status, obligations, and upcoming renewals
• Review, redline, and negotiate customer-proposed MNDAs and other standard commercial agreements, applying aPriori's established playbooks and positions
• Review customer-proposed redlines to aPriori's standard contract templates, including SaaS Agreements, on-premises software agreements, SOWs, and Order Documents
• Triage incoming contractual and legal issues, independently resolving routine matters and escalating non-standard or high-risk issues to the VP of Legal with clear context and a recommended path forward
• Develop and maintain a tracking system for non-standard contractual commitments and exceptions granted to customers, proactively alerting relevant internal stakeholders to obligations that require action or monitoring
• Complete customer vendor onboarding forms, security questionnaires, and procurement questionnaires, coordinating with Security, IT, Finance, and other internal teams to compile accurate responses
• Support aPriori's responses to RFPs, RFIs, and similar procurement processes, with a focus on the legal, commercial, and contractual components

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on commercial contracts experience in a technology company, law firm, or legal operations environment, with demonstrated experience managing SaaS or software licensing agreements
• Deep familiarity with standard commercial contract structures including SaaS agreements, on-premises software licenses, NDAs/MNDAs, SOWs, and order documents; ability to identify, explain, and resolve common negotiation points without attorney supervision
• Working knowledge of data privacy concepts relevant to commercial agreements, including GDPR, CCPA, and standard DPA structures is required
• Hands-on experience administering or operating within a CLM platform (e.g., Linksquares, Ironclad, Conga, Docu Sign CLM, Icertis, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated…