Senior Contracts Manager

Uplight is creating a new category of energy. We make software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses—including things like smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and even people’s behavior—to generate, shift, or save energy to balance the grid, making it more efficient and reliable. This creates clean energy capacity that can be used by the power grid instead of burning more fossil fuels. Our solutions accelerate the transition to clean energy and save money for energy customers.We are looking for a Senior Contracts Manager to drive our company forward, and help us lead the clean energy revolution!How you will make an impact: The responsibilities of the Senior Contracts Manager will include working closely with counsel, finance, business and sales teams to draft, review, analyze, revise and negotiate a wide variety of contracts with a focus on master services agreements and scopes of work for our SaaS products and services, and NDAs/confidentiality agreements. Experience with SaaS and technology agreements, including an understanding of privacy and data security, is strongly preferred.

• Review, analyze, draft and revise contracts in concert with sales leads, professional services leads and counsel
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to carefully obtain and track the requirements needed for each contract, 
• Coordinate and negotiate contract process with customer and vendor procurement teams
• Collaborate on and assist with management of practical, organization-wide contract management process and system (Ironclad), overseeing the processes needed to create, execute and analyze contracts
• Maintain organized systems of digital contract records
• Communicate and manage contracts workflow

What you bring to Uplight: 

• At least eight years of intensive experience with contracts negotiation and management
• Experience working closely with or reporting to legal counsel
• Knowledge of and experience with contract terms and legal requirements 
• Ability to multitask, demonstrate organization, prioritization, and time management skills to ensure that work-related activities are completed in an accurate and timely manner
• Excellent writing skills and ability to demonstrate clear and concise communication
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of confidentiality and ability to work with highly sensitive data and information
• Exceptional communications skills to effectively deal with various levels of colleagues, management, and business partners
• Ability to work across multiple productivity platforms and tools (MS Office, Google Docs/Sheets, Dropbox, Asana, Slack, etc.) 
• Paralegal or additional qualifications in law strongly preferred

Bonus Points:

• Experience working for or with utility companies or related energy companies

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