Contracts Manager

Role Overview

• Negotiate and draft complex and strategic commercial agreements, with the ability to capture complex legal and business concepts in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand manner, operating with minimal supervision.
• Serve as a senior contracts expert for designated products, regions, or segments, shaping deal strategy and recommended risk positions for stakeholders.
• Negotiate agreements with suppliers in accordance with LiveRamp contracts policies and procedures while leveraging subject matter experts as needed.
• Lead and collaborate with numerous internal stakeholders, including sales, finance, product, privacy, customer success, and business development on the sales cycle and risk mitigation to ensure all relevant interests are represented and aligned.
• Provide proactive guidance to cross-functional teams on commonly requested edits, non-standard terms and general contractual questions.
• Make independent decisions with respect to balancing the need to be customer-responsive with that of protecting LiveRamp’s interests.
• Support the business and legal team members on legal review for Request for Proposal (RFPs), security questionnaires, and a variety of other customer-driven requests.
• Respond promptly to the demands of an active SaaS sales team.
• Provide informal mentorship and guidance to more junior contracts professionals and cross-functional partners on negotiation strategy, contract structures, and risk trade-offs.
• Be a champion for a better, faster and simpler way of doing things, regularly identifying and implementing improvements to contracts templates, playbooks, and processes for the broader team.

Requirements

• At least 3–5+ years of experience independently drafting and negotiating commercial contracts in contracts manager or similar roles
• Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and preferably with sales, finance, product, privacy, marketing and customer success teams
• Comfort with ambiguity, multi-tasking, and independence, including making sound judgments in situations with incomplete information or competing priorities
• Track record of identifying and implementing process or tooling improvements for a contracts or legal team
• Prior experience working preferably with an Adtech/Martech, SaaS, data, or similar technology company

Benefits

• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.
• Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers).
• A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located.