Contracts Specialist, Senior

Description

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 elevate.

This role supports a global sales organization and will require occasional (estimated at a few times per month) 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

• 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

• 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…