Senior Contract Manager

Senior Contracts Manager

Sumo Logic is looking for a highly motivated Senior Contracts Manager to join its Legal team and report to our Director of Legal Affairs. This role focuses on negotiating and closing a variety of commercial transactions, including our customer and partner arrangements, and designing and implementing new commercial legal processes as we scale our business.

An adaptable individual who enjoys variety, collaborative conversations proposing concrete business solutions, synthesizing information from various teams, and building out infrastructure will thrive in our Legal team.
We’re looking for someone with a business focus and strong problem-solving skills, who can manage multiple, high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment. If you are looking for the opportunity to make a significant
impact, and have a passion for sophisticated technology transactions and closing deals, this role provides a great opportunity to apply your skills and experience to help take your career and Sumo Logic to the next level.

This is a remote role and we are looking to hire in the Eastern US time zone.

Responsibilities:

•  Draft and negotiate a variety of commercial transactions, including SaaS customer agreements,
  distribution/reseller agreements, professional services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, BAAs, vendor
  agreements, and other related agreements.
•  Assist with developing and maintaining contracts-related processes and procedures to scale with company’s
  growth, such as developing and maintaining playbook, standard forms, etc.
•  Partner with sales, sales operations, finance, security, customer success, and other functions to ensure
  efficient and effective legal support for commercial transactions.
• Assist with other legal team initiatives.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8-12 years of hands-on experience in drafting and negotiating software license and SaaS
  agreements.
• Experience in-house at a technology company is a MUST
• Experience relating to cloud/SaaS specific issues, privacy, security strongly preferred.

Additional Qualifications:

• Excellent drafting skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative and pragmatic ways,
  consistent with company objectives, policies, and processes.
• Excellent negotiator, able to effectively navigate issues externally and internally, including across
  departments, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Able to successfully manage competing priorities and work independently on a wide range of issues and
  projects, while delivering quality work.
• Team player with strong business acumen and attention to detail and who recognizes that this role is about
  doing as well as creating a scalable foundation.
• Highly motivated self-starter, who excels in a fast-paced, time pressured and demanding environment. Must
  be flexible.
•  Experience with contract management systems a plus.

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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The expected annual base salary for this position is $135,000-$180,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.