Procurement Intern (JD)

Available Locations: Austin Texas or San Francisco

The Opportunity

Looking to transition from the classroom to the high-stakes world of legal contract review and negotiation This role is dedicated to our Global Procurement Contracts Team focusing on the legal framework that governs our most critical vendor relationships. You will gain direct experience in commercial contracting risk mitigation security and data privacy.

The Mission

You will lead a high-priority Contract Health initiative. Under the guidance of our Legal and Procurement teams you will:

• Audit top-tier vendors to ensure compliance with our latest MSA (Master Service Agreement) DPA (Data Processing Addendum) and DSA (Data Security Agreement).
• Identify gaps in our governing agreements and launch formal workflows to remediate risk.
• Participate in negotiation strategy sessions for new and renewing vendors.

The AI Innovation Project

Legal tech is evolving rapidly. You will explore how AI can accelerate the legal review process. This may include:

• Using AI tools to perform redline comparisons across hundreds of legacy documents.
• Developing a Contract Playbook within Gemini to help non-legal stakeholders understand standard vs. non-standard clauses.
• Building an automated tracking dashboard for document execution status.

Key Responsibilities

• Review complex legal documents for risk and compliance alignment.
• Initiate outreach and manage communications with vendor legal teams.
• Provide regular status updates to the Procurement and Legal leadership.
• Final Capstone: Present a State of the Contract Landscape report to the Procurement team highlighting risks mitigated and AI-driven efficiencies gained.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an accredited JD or LLM program (or equivalent graduate law program).
• Strong interest in Commercial Law Privacy or Tech Transactions.
• Exceptional attention to detailyoure the person who finds the typo in the 40th footnote.
• Ability to translate complex legal jargon into actionable business advice.

Suggestions for Your Internal Manual

To make this program industry-leading I recommend including these elements in the guide you give them on Day 1:

1. The AI Sandbox Policy: Explicitly state which company data they can and cannot feed into Gemini/OpenCode. Providing clear guardrails encourages them to experiment without fear.
2. The Mentor-Buddy System: Assign the Undergrads a Buddy (someone 1-2 years out of school) and the Law student a Mentor (a Senior Counsel or Procurement Lead).
3. Milestone Markers:

• Week 1-2: Onboarding & Tool Training.
• Week 4: AI Project Proposal Due.
• Week 8: Project Prototype/Draft.
• Week 11: Final Presentation Rehearsal.

1. Networking Credits: Encourage them to have Coffee Chats with three people outside their department (e.g. Marketing Engineering HR) to see how Procurement impacts the whole business.

Compensation:

• Estimated hourly rate is $32/hr

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale 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 customers--at 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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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