Temporal is seeking a skilled Contracts Manager to join our Legal team.
As a key member of our Legal team, you'll work across a diverse mix of customer, procurement, and other commercial contracts while serving as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams. You'll build and maintain direct relationships with key stakeholders and have the opportunity to develop scalable resources that make the Legal team, and company, more efficient.
Reporting to the Director of Commercial Legal, you'll manage Temporal's contract lifecycle management platform, including the templates, playbooks, and documentation used by cross-functional teams. You'll support commercial transactions end-to-end by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating standard agreements, coordinating signature workflows, and ensuring on-time execution at scale. You'll also help build the processes and systems for the entire Legal team needed to support Temporal's current and next stage of growth.
What You’ll Do- Manage and coordinate the end-to-end review processes for both the sell-side and buy-side, including NDAs, MSAs, Statements of Work, and procurement agreements.
- Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Security, and other stakeholders to enable deal velocity.
- Serve as the primary administrator for Temporal’s CLM platform by owning system configuration, workflow design, user management, and ongoing optimization.
- Build, maintain, and improve automated contract workflows and intake processes that reduce cycle times and minimize manual steps.
- Develop and maintain commercial contract templates, clause libraries, and playbooks, and continuously improve and scale the Legal team's contracting operations.
- Create and deliver training materials, internal guidelines, and FAQs to assist cross-functional partners and improve self-service on routine questions for Legal.
- Contribute to Legal team operational initiatives, including process improvements, tool implementations, and reporting standardization.
- Bachelors degree
- 5+ years of experience in contract management for commercial transactions, ideally supporting a SaaS or tech company.
- Experience with managing a wide variety of commercial agreements, such as procurement agreements, MSAs, NDAs, and/or other commercial SaaS and technical agreements.
- Hands-on experience with contracts management systems (such as, or similar to, Ironclad, Zip, and Docusign).
- Ability to think creatively, function independently, and work proactively.
- Team-focused and collaborative work style, and a willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving setting.
- Hyper-responsive and service-oriented attitude, and a love for solving hard problems on a small team.
- Experience with AI-powered contract tools.
- Experience implementing CLM systems and other legal operations tools.
- Project management skills are a bonus.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $115,000-$170,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal’s equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in contract management for commercial transactions
- Experience managing NDAs, MSAs, Statements of Work, and procurement agreements
- Hands-on experience with contract management systems (e.g., Ironclad, Zip, DocuSign)
- Experience administering CLM platforms (system configuration, workflow design, user management)
- Experience implementing CLM systems and other legal operations tools
- Experience with AI-powered contract tools
- Ability to think creatively, function independently, and work proactively
- Team-focused, collaborative work style and service-oriented responsiveness
- Project management skills
- Experience supporting a SaaS or technology company (ideal)
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
