Senior Sales Contracting Manager

Posted 8 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Menlo Park, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
155K-180K Annually
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Lead cross-functional coordination between Sales, Legal, Finance, Project Delivery, Product, and Leadership to drive commercial contract negotiation and execution. Manage multiple deals, track contract status, remove blockers, standardize templates and fallback positions, and implement process improvements and automation to improve contracting efficiency and visibility.
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About Mainspring

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, NextEra Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.

The core values that ground our work, guide our decisions, and connect us together:

  • Pragmatic Optimism
  • Excellence without Ego
  • Proactive Collaboration

Job Overview

This role serves as the bridge between Sales and internal stakeholders during the commercial contracting process. Acting as both a project manager and strategic coordinator, the position drives alignment across Sales, Legal, Finance, Project Delivery, Operations, Product, and Leadership to ensure customer agreements are structured, reviewed, approved, and executed efficiently. 

The role is responsible for proactively coordinating cross-functional activities, removing blockers, driving accountability, and maintaining momentum throughout the deal lifecycle. In addition to supporting day-to-day deal execution, this position plays a key role in identifying process gaps, implementing scalable improvements, and driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance contracting efficiency, visibility, communication, and overall commercial operations effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Sales teams to support customer contracting from pre-deal structuring through execution

  • Act as the primary cross-functional coordinator between Sales and internal stakeholders during commercial negotiations

  • Drive alignment among Legal, Finance, Project Delivery, Product, and Executive teams on deal terms

  • Translate commercial objectives into actionable internal requirements and approvals

  • Facilitate internal review and approval workflows for customer agreements

  • Maintain visibility into active deal pipelines and proactively remove blockers to contract execution

  • Track contract status, approvals, open issues, and execution timelines across multiple concurrent deals

  • Partner with Legal to standardize templates, fallback positions, and negotiation guidance

Operational Excellence / Process Improvement

  • Build scalable systems and processes to improve contracting efficiency and cycle times

  • Analyze bottlenecks and recommend process improvements 

  • Develop reporting and metrics related to contract turnaround time, approval timelines, and deal velocity

  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across commercial operations and deal execution

  • Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline contracting workflows and improve visibility into deal status

Qualifications

  • At least 12 years of related experience plus a Bachelor’s degree

  • A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree

  • Preference for direct experience negotiating PPA, tolling, lease and other financed contracts

  • Experience working cross-functionally

  • Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills

  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority deals simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

  • Excellent communication and negotiation support capabilities

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Experience with CRM and contract lifecycle management tools (Salesforce, Ironclad, DocuSign, etc.)

  • Ability to balance customer responsiveness with internal business requirements and risk management

  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building scalable processes

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Skills Required

  • At least 12 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience negotiating PPA, tolling, lease and other financed contracts
  • Experience working cross-functionally
  • Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority deals simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent communication and negotiation support capabilities
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with CRM and contract lifecycle management tools (Salesforce, Ironclad, DocuSign, etc.)
  • Ability to balance customer responsiveness with internal business requirements and risk management
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building scalable processes
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The Company
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
294 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers onsite, fuel-flexible power to accelerate the transition to the future grid. To learn more visit www.mainspringenergy.com.

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