Senior Contract Manager

Are you the kind of person who can walk into a business with no documented contract process and build one from scratch, rather than waiting to be handed a playbook? Do you get energy from making dense legal terms usable for non-legal teams, instead of just filing them away? Are you comfortable owning both sides of a negotiation – redlining what a client sends you and reviewing what a vendor sends us – in the same week?

If this sounds like you, keep reading. If not, that’s okay – this role is not a fit, and that clarity is intentional.

Contract management at Foundation has been running on multiple people’s tribal knowledge rather than a documented process, and it doesn't scale as our enterprise book (including a recent >$1M account expansion) grows. This role takes full ownership of all contract life cycles end to end – drafting, negotiating, and reviewing every contract scenario we handle, from new client agreements to vendor and independent contractor agreements – so it's no longer split across whoever has bandwidth that week.

This person unlocks the next phase of our enterprise growth without adding legal risk or bottlenecking through one overloaded person.

• Takes ownership of ambiguous, undocumented processes and turns them into a working system
• Is comfortable owning drafting and negotiation directly, not just reviewing what others produce
• Has the judgment to know when to resolve a redline directly and when it needs escalation to counsel
• Communicates contract terms clearly to non-legal stakeholders (sales, AMs, project coordinators)
• Is fluent in modern contract tooling (Docu Sign, Panda Doc, Click Up, AI-assisted knowledge systems) and enjoys configuring it, not just using it
• Adapts well to Foundation's fast-paced, fully remote working rhythm

• Need a fully built process handed to you before you can start contributing
• Prefer reviewing other people's drafts rather than owning drafting and negotiation yourself
• Are not comfortable working independently across US and Canadian jurisdictions with limited live overlap
• Treat legal review as a bottleneck to route around rather than a judgment call to own

Full-Cycle Contract Ownership & Negotiation (~75% of your time)

• Draft and negotiate new client MSAs/SOWs from our template, and manage the client review and redline process directly
• Own content-mapping and negotiation for contracts using a client s own MSA/SOW template (e.g. enterprise accounts)
• Draft and manage change orders and extension orders referencing standing MSA/T&C terms
• Draft and negotiate vendor contracts, including cross-referencing vendor terms against the live client contract they support, for scope, IP, and confidentiality consistency
• Draft and manage employment, independent contractor and freelancer agreements
• Own escalation judgment calls – what proceeds internally versus what goes to outside counsel – and act as the sole point of contact with counsel; no other team member initiates contact with outside counsel directly, to protect cost and turnaround time
• Review every contract for insurance and liability terms (indemnification, coverage limits, additional insured requirements) as a standard part of contract review, coordinating with People Ops to confirm actual coverage specifics and complete Info Sec questionnaires where required – replacing today s ad hoc process
• Audit active SOWs and change orders against governing MSA terms to catch scope creep before it becomes a margin problem

Improving Contract Knowledge Systems (~25% of your time)

• Own and harmonize the template library (Client MSA, SOW, Vendor MSA, Change Orders, CA/US Employment contracts, independent and freelance contracts) so terms…