Your Impact:
Are you a world-class contracts manager with focus, passion, and high attention to detail? Are you a skilled negotiator with the ability to prepare, think, and communicate with clarity under pressure, bringing both sides to a swift resolution? Are you great at mitigating risk for the business while keeping a customer-first attitude? Do you have a positive attitude and a "start-up" spirit? Axon is looking for a person exactly like you to join our Legal team!
As a Contracts Manager, you will partner with business teammates to negotiate, prepare, examine, analyze, manage, and administer a variety of commercial contracts, with particular emphasis on customer sales contracts, as well as drive and improve Axon's contracting processes to set Axon up for long-term success. You will communicate high-level information to a wide variety of stakeholders within Axon and facilitate contract meetings.
Your Day to Day:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts covering a wide range of subject matters, including sales of Axon's goods and services, vendor, and supply.
- Coordinate contract review and negotiation across multiple organizations including Legal, Finance, Sales Operations, and Product.
- Review requests for proposals and quotes to ensure compliance with terms and conditions.
- Administer and manage documents and forms related to procurement efforts.
- Support updates to our Legal team's processes and procedures including contract playbooks, contract lifecycle management systems, and customer relationship management platforms.
- Review, analyze, and report on revisions to contract terms.
- Manage record-keeping for all contract-related correspondence and documentation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience negotiating and administering commercial contracts for sales of goods and services (including SaaS).
- Maniacal stickler for organization and attention to detail.
- Experience analyzing and mitigating risk for the business during every contract negotiation.
- Experience working with legal counsel to drive contracts to execution.
- Experience fulfilling the reporting requirements of contracts.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Must be able to work legally in the U.S.
Preferred Qualifications:
- JD or MBA.
- Experience contracting with the public sector: City, County, State, or Federal.
- Experience assisting with the request-for-proposal process and management.
- Experience using contract lifecycle management systems and customer relationship management software (e.g., Salesforce.com).
- Experience with cooperative purchasing agreements.
- Experience working with finance department on pricing, accounting, or revenue recognition contract requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- An award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with police officers to see them use our technology and get inspired
- And more...