The Channel Company

Senior Manager, Legal Contracts and Operations

The Channel Company

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Arizona • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle for all commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, sponsorship agreements, event contracts, and vendor agreements
  • Build and manage the company's contract management system, implementing CLM tools and establishing intake, review, and approval workflows
  • Conduct first-pass review of commercial agreements against company templates and approved fallback positions, escalating non-standard terms to the General Counsel
  • Under the direction of the General Counsel, develop and maintain the company's template library, playbooks, and clause banks for high-volume agreement types
  • Track and manage contract obligations, renewal dates, and key milestones across the portfolio
  • Identify and implement legal technology solutions to scale the department's capacity
  • Support corporate governance, entity management, and regulatory compliance filings
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and workflows to increase legal department efficiency, including CLM playbook automation and contract review optimization
  • Serve as the central point of contact for the legal department, managing the legal, compliance, and contracts inboxes, triaging requests, and ensuring timely responses to internal and external stakeholders
  • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Events, and Finance teams to streamline legal touchpoints and reduce bottlenecks
  • Support legal needs for sales and live events, including venue contracts, speaker agreements, sponsor agreements, and on-site vendor arrangements
  • Manage legal department scheduling, meeting coordination, and preparation of agendas, presentations, and briefing materials for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience in legal operations, contracts management, or as a paralegal in a corporate legal department or law firm
  • Strong experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts (technology, media, or events industry preferred)
  • Familiarity with data privacy agreements and frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, state privacy laws)
  • Experience with or strong interest in CLM platforms
  • Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage a high volume of agreements simultaneously
  • Excellent judgment on when to escalate and when to run independently
  • Strong communicator who can translate legal concepts for business stakeholders
  • Bachelor's degree required; paralegal certificate or legal operations certification (e.g., CLOC, ACC) strongly preferred.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • tele-health
  • disability
  • life insurance
  • health savings accounts
  • paid parental leave
  • company matched 401k
  • unlimited PTO
  • sick time
  • 15 company paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
contract lifecycle managementcommercial agreements reviewcontract negotiationdata privacy agreementslegal technology solutionsCLM platformscontract review optimizationregulatory complianceentity managementcontract obligations tracking
Soft Skills
organizational skillsjudgmentcommunication skillscross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingtime managementattention to detailstakeholder managementescalation managementworkflow management
Certifications
paralegal certificatelegal operations certificationCLOC certificationACC certificationBachelor's degree