Contracts Specialist, AnySignal

• 4+ years in contracts administration, contract management, or a paralegal role with substantial commercial contracting responsibility
• Direct experience drafting and redlining commercial agreements independently, with clear judgment about what you can resolve and what needs to escalate
• Comfort operating without a large legal department behind you. You've built or meaningfully improved a process, not just worked inside one
• Strong organizational discipline. You track obligations and deadlines without being reminded
• Clear written communication with non-legal partners in sales, finance, and engineering
• Ability to work onsite in Torrance, CA
• To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Desirable

• We're hiring our first Contracts Specialist to own the day-to-day operation of AnySignal's commercial contracting
• We need a dedicated specialist that can unblock our legal leadership and allow our team to execute more efficiently as we scale into larger more complex opportunities
• You'll be the first point of contact for contracts across the company, running intake, redlining against approved playbooks, tracking obligations, and keeping our contract records in a state where anyone can find what they need in under a minute
• Where something is genuinely novel or high-risk, you escalate. Everything else, you close
• This is a hands-on operating role at a company that builds real hardware for real missions
• You'll work directly with our General Counsel and partner closely with business development, supply chain, production, finance, and engineering
• Run contract intake end to end. Triage incoming requests, assign priority, and drive agreements from first draft to signature
• Draft, review, and redline recurring commercial agreements: NDAs, MSAs, statements of work, purchase and supply agreements, vendor and consultant agreements, and teaming agreements
• Build and maintain contract playbooks and templates so common terms get handled consistently without a lawyer in the loop
• Own the contract lifecycle system. Maintain the repository, track key dates, renewals, and deliverables, and make sure obligations don't get missed
• Support flow-down and compliance requirements on government and prime contractor work, including export control, cybersecurity, and reporting terms
• Coordinate signature, execution, and records retention, and keep finance and sales aligned on contract status
• Support corporate and compliance projects alongside the General Counsel, including entity records, policy administration, insurance, and audit preparation