Contracts Manager

Temporal is seeking a skilled Contracts Manager to join our Legal team.

As a key member of our Legal team, you'll work across a diverse mix of customer, procurement, and other commercial contracts while serving as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams. You'll build and maintain direct relationships with key stakeholders and have the opportunity to develop scalable resources that make the Legal team, and company, more efficient.

Reporting to the Director of Commercial Legal, you'll manage Temporal's contract lifecycle management platform, including the templates, playbooks, and documentation used by cross-functional teams. You'll support commercial transactions end-to-end by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating standard agreements, coordinating signature workflows, and ensuring on-time execution at scale. You'll also help build the processes and systems for the entire Legal team needed to support Temporal's current and next stage of growth.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Manage and coordinate the end-to-end review processes for both the sell-side and buy-side, including NDAs, MSAs, Statements of Work, and procurement agreements.

• Partner closely with Sales, Finance, Security, and other stakeholders to enable deal velocity.

• Serve as the primary administrator for Temporal’s CLM platform by owning system configuration, workflow design, user management, and ongoing optimization.

• Build, maintain, and improve automated contract workflows and intake processes that reduce cycle times and minimize manual steps.

• Develop and maintain commercial contract templates, clause libraries, and playbooks, and continuously improve and scale the Legal team's contracting operations.

• Create and deliver training materials, internal guidelines, and FAQs to assist cross-functional partners and improve self-service on routine questions for Legal.

• Contribute to Legal team operational initiatives, including process improvements, tool implementations, and reporting standardization.