Contracts Associate Legal & Compliance San Francisco, CA

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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Rippling is looking for a sharp, highly-motivated, and innately curious Contracts Associate. In this role, you partner closely with Sales, Revenue Operations, Business Development and Procurement to support Rippling’s commercial operations and help the company scale and close deals efficiently.

You’ll manage a high volume of commercial agreements, help move deals forward, and contribute to the tools and processes that allow the business to operate quickly and consistently. This role sits at the intersection of legal, operations, and GTM functions and is a great fit for someone who enjoys solving practical problems, working cross-functionally, and learning how commercial contracting works at scale.

The role will report to the Assistant General Counsel, Commercial and works closely with other members of the Legal and Compliance team.

• Serve as a point of contact for Sales and Procurement on contract-related questions and intake requests.
• Draft, review, and help negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including customer, vendor, and partnership contracts.
• Support a high-volume commercial pipeline by triaging requests and helping prioritize matters efficiently.
• Assist in developing and maintaining contracting playbooks, policies, and internal guidance materials.
• Help build upon processes that support commercial relationships and common agreement types, such as NDAs, terms of service, and partnership agreements.
• Support the design and roll‑out of self‑service tools that enable business teams to move quickly while staying within approved frameworks.
• Track and help analyze metrics related to deal velocity, contract cycles, and negotiation trends to help improve contracting cycles.

• 1-3 years experience in contract management, legal operations, paralegal work, or a similar role. Experience at a fast‑paced tech or SaaS company, and with CRM/CLM tools (Salesforce, Ironclad, etc.) are pluses.
• Strong organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail and excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex problems in new areas.
• Team player mentality, and a drive to take initiative and be curiosity about how our company and business works.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, self‑starting, and comfortable working in a highly dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required.

Our team keeps Rippling’s commercial engine running efficiently and compliantly by working to accelerate revenue while protecting the business. We support Sales, Business Development, and other GTM teams globally, advising on commercial strategy, negotiating increasingly complex deals, and enabling Rippling to continue to grow and scale. This role offers the opportunity to build and scale a world‑class commercial legal function at a fast‑growing company.

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual…