Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist, Sift

• 2+ years of experience in a contracts, legal operations, or deal desk role, ideally at a B2B SaaS company. No law degree required
• Comfortable using AI tools daily to speed up drafting and review, not just occasionally
• Good judgment on what's standard versus what needs to go to legal counsel
• Experience with Salesforce and Jira
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the flexibility to handle volume and competing requests
• Comfortable working in a role that's still being built, where the process and tooling will keep changing
• Sift is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. To be eligible for employment, you must live in and be authorized to work from a state where Sift is registered

Desirable

• Sift is hiring a Contracts and Legal Operations Specialist to run our contracting process end to end, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements
• AI tools will handle first-pass review and drafting on routine paper; you take it from there, negotiating and closing standard agreements independently and escalating anything complex or high-risk to legal counsel
• You'll also own the contract automation and playbooks going forward, tuning them as the business changes
• The role works closely with Deal Desk, Sales, and Partners from a contracts perspective, along with finance, security, privacy, marketing, and product
• Draft, negotiate, and close standard commercial agreements independently, including NDAs, order forms, standard renewals, and low-risk vendor and partner agreements, from first draft to signature
• Review and finalize AI-generated first-pass redlines and clause extraction on incoming contracts before they go out to counterparties
• Own the contract automation and playbooks over time: update clause libraries, adjust intake logic, and add new agreement types as the business changes
• Manage vendor and procurement requests end to end: negotiate standard pricing and terms, track requests through Jira, and push back on terms that don't work for Sift
• Manage the full contract lifecycle: intake, repository, renewals, approvals, and terminations
• Coach Sales on standard terms and redlines so routine deals close without legal touching every file
• Collaborate with Sales and Deal Desk to streamline the sales process and related deal cycles
• Track and report on contract and vendor metrics
• Triage inbound contracts and vendor requests, and escalate anything complex, high-risk, or outside standard terms to legal counsel
• Take on other duties as part of a small, fast-moving legal and compliance team