Manager of Contract Operations, Coursedog
Integrated academic operations platform
Open for applications
Integrated academic operations platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To break down barriers to opportunity for students.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 4+ years experience in a contract management, legal operations or paralegal capacity at a fast-paced tech or SaaS company
- Deep commercial contracts experience managing enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts
- Entrepreneurial mindset: self-starting, and comfortable working in a highly dynamic environment
- Hyper-responsive, collaborative, effective communication, interpersonal skills, and service-oriented attitude
- Team player who takes initiative and demonstrates curiosity about how our company and business works
- A curious go-getter with strong judgment, highly tuned organizational skills, and a positive attitude would excel in this role
- Process-oriented: builds systems, intake processes, and reporting to support business
- Strong business judgment: delivers pragmatic, risk-balanced guidance that enables growth
- Ability to think creatively, function independently and work proactively on new challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to work directly with customer counsel
- The ideal candidate is process-oriented, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and can juggle competing priorities
- Ability to prioritize, drive, and respond to multiple competing deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex problems in new areas
- Experience with Salesforce as well as SaaS Revenue Recognition and/or CPQ tools a plus
What the job involves
- Own Coursedog’s commercial contracting process end-to-end, while driving AI-focused transformation across contract operations
- Define and execute the long-term vision for contract management and operations, aligning process excellence, technology, and stakeholder experience
- Build contract strategy: create templates, playbooks, and scalable negotiation processes that streamline operations and reduce risk
- Establish legal infrastructure with a focus on AI: document management, intake systems, reporting, and processes to scale with the business
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts & other agreements with employees, customers, vendors, & channel partners
- Translate complex contract requirements into clear, actionable guidance for executives, teams, and customers
- Drive change management initiatives that reshape how Coursedog teams engage with contracts
- Provide training and develop resources in support of our sales and other cross-functional teams
- Define smart risk taking principles that balance consistency and speed, ensuring contracts move through review and approval quickly while still protecting the company
- Identify, pilot, and integrate emerging technologies that automate low-risk contracts, augment legal decision-making, and ensure Coursedog is always on the leading edge of contracting innovation
- Partner with outside counsel on specialized or complex commercial legal matters
Our take
Higher Education is in crisis. The cost of education is skyrocketing, while only 33% of students in the US graduate in four years, and issues of equity and access are worsening. A big part of this can be put down to a lack of proper scheduling: 75% of universities operate entirely on legacy, on-premise software, resulting in millions of frustrated students saddled with heaps of debt.
Coursedog has set out to solve this. An integrated academic operations platform that helps higher education maximize operational efficiency, its strategy is based on market disruption, using data innovation to accelerate student success. Founded in 2018, it has partnered with over 200 higher education institutions, providing its curriculum-mapping software to more than 1.2 million students in total.
The global curriculum-mapping software market has really started to pick up in recent years, and Coursedog will face stiff competition from the likes of Top Hat, Kiddom, and PlanbookEdu. That being said, Coursedog's focus on accelerating product development has it well placed to continue poaching market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$90m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.4m
Company benefits
- Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service of this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit
- Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access
- Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, denal, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents
- Equity: You'll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Retirement Plan: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment
- Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Rosen
(CEO)Joined Coursedog as CEO in 2024. Prior to that, they were the CEO of Interfolio from Elsevier for over 8 years. They also spent time as the Senior Executive Vice President of MicroStrategy and as a General Manager of Education Technology Business at EAB.
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