Senior Contracts and Legal Manager

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, Git Lab,  and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide Mac Books to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non‑birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women’s health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote‑first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

Some of our benefits in Canada include:

• Unlimited vacation
• RRSP - The Adaptavist Group matches up to 4%
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Employee assistance programme
• Free online streaming service subscription

About the role:

As a Senior Contracts & Legal Manager, you’ll be responsible for driving business within our Contracts and Legal Operations (known as the Commercial Operations) group. You will manage day to day activities regarding contract review, negotiation and management, liaising with various business entities, clients, subcontractors and suppliers. You’ll be expected to lead engagements in the US and Canada, but also support engagements that may be conducted in other geographies.

This role will see you accept accountability for legal contracts and advise the Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations on unusual and exceptional legal requirements.

The Commercial Operations team is focused on enabling organic and inorganic growth through contract management and negotiations, compliance management, management of legal and related services and operations, and management and mitigation of risks for the company. As a Senior Commercial and Legal Manager on the team, you will work closely with all parts of the business in this regard – including executive management, sales, professional and client services, IT and security, finance, marketing, facilities, and product development.

You will be responsible for conducting various activities that help the broader Commercial Operations group in its work, supporting and facilitating the work of the team through a strong process driven orientation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Reviewing and redlining of contracts, including resolution of challenges and queries from counter parties (such as clients)
• Independently negotiating legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts (NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, software purchasing agreements, etc.)
• Signature of contracts of significant size, with recommendations to Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations
• Managing information related to contracts (clients, partners, suppliers), and within internal contractual IT systems. Knowledge management and enforcement of process
• Working with process specialists (Legal Operations Managers) who manage IT systems, process, internal corporate change programmes, and knowledge repositories (i.e. document repositories, FAQs, and wikis) associated with contracts and legal support
• Providing “peer reviews” of departmental contract redlines, and requesting such peer reviews to support a robust, quality‑driven process
• Reviewing documentation that forms part of various strategic sales, partnerships, or acquisitions
• Balancing risk mitigation with The Adaptavist Group’s global strategy and priorities
• Contributing to the assessment and careful use of AI where applicable in the contract management process.
• Working collaboratively to provide continuous improvement of cross‑team training, playbooks, contract templates, and…