Contracts Manager

About the Department

Because of the scope complexity and diversity of the companys work we need a worldclass legal team to help the company avoid distractions and guide company leadership around obstacles. Our legal team is made up of very accomplished lawyers and staff who comprise a flexible talented and very cohesive team.

About the Role

In this role youll be a valued member of Cloudflares procurement legal team a vital part of the commercial legal team.As a Contracts Manager at Cloudflare you will play a pivotal role in drafting negotiating and managing a wide range of commercial agreements ensuring alignment with our legal regulatory and operational standards. You will work closely with our Procurement team and be the first point of contact for responding to legal escalations related to inbound contracts and you will also collaborate and work crossfunctionally with other internal groups across IT Infrastructure Security and Privacy teams. The position is based in Austin TX Washington D.C. or San Francisco CA and frequent communication with our other offices will be required.

Available Location: Austin TX or Washington DC

What Youll Be Doing

• Manage busy contract queue thoroughly reviewing contracts and triaging other legal requests working with legal counsel as needed
• Act as the first point of contact for escalations from Procurement and other internal teams requiring legal input addressing issues efficiently and aligning with internal policies
• Conduct initial review of contracts in relation to risks stemming from contract language and internal legal thresholds and collaborate with stakeholders to mitigate these risks effectively
• Review and negotiate a wide variety of vendor contracts such as SaaS agreements NDAs MSAs DPAs DSAs and other general commercial terms and conditions.
• Communicate complex legal concepts and contract terms to various stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner ensuring alignment and understanding across teams
• Maintain a library of form documents contract clauses templates and historical documents and making updates to the material as needed
• Work with cross functional teams like Privacy and Security to develop maintain and update contract templates playbooks and policies.
• Provide input into the formulation development and/or revision of operating policies procedures and strategies for the procurement legal function as appropriate

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. degree; paralegal certification a plus but not required
• 3 years relevant business or legal experience
• Ability to meet the needs of a highgrowth fastpaced Internet company
• Great organizational skills and ability to prioritize workloads while maintaining attention to detail
• Creative negotiation and problemsolving skills balancing good judgment and business needs
• Excellent interpersonal skills for facilitating collaboration by cultivating relationships and communicating with legal and crossfunctional partners
• Proven ability to manage highvolume workloads multiple stakeholder demands and evershifting priorities all while instilling confidence
• Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the workplace

Bonus Points

• Experience in a legal setting (law firm or inhouse)
• Experience with colocation and/or wholesale internet infrastructure agreements
• Experience with inbound contracting and industry leading procurement processes
• Experience using process/document management systems similar to CERTA Zip Ironclad Jira and/or DocuSign

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado Illinois Maryland and Minnesota based hires: Estimated annual salary of $102000 $124000.
• For New York City Washington Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $119000 $145000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• Ondemand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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