aPriori is seeking an experienced Senior Contracts Specialist to join our Legal team. This is a hands-on, operationally focused role responsible for managing the full lifecycle of aPriori’s commercial agreements — from initial intake, review, and redlining through execution, tracking, and repository maintenance. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in commercial contract operations, proficiency with CLM systems and AI-powered workflows, and the sound judgment to work independently while knowing when to escalate. This role supports a global sales organization and will require occasional (estimated at a few times per month) flexibility outside standard US business hours to accommodate colleagues and customers in EMEA and APAC time zones as needed to support time-sensitive transactions and negotiations.
Location: Greater Boston, MA
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary administrator and power user of aPriori’s CLM system (currently Linksquares), ensuring the platform is accurately configured, up to date, and fully adopted across the contracts function
- Identify and implement AI-powered workflows, automation tools, and process improvements to increase throughput, reduce cycle times, and improve contract quality and visibility
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures to support contract intake, review, negotiation, execution, and post-signature compliance
- Partner with aPriori’s Deal Desk to ensure all order documentation — including Order Documents, SOWs, and related attachments — is accurate, complete, and executed on time
- Prepare fully negotiated agreements for execution by authorized signatories; this role does not carry independent authority to bind aPriori contractually
- Serve as a knowledgeable resource for the sales team on aPriori’s standard contract terms and processes, driving deal velocity without sacrificing quality
- Maintain and continuously improve aPriori’s contracts repository, ensuring all fully executed agreements and amendments are properly organized, tagged, and searchable
- Enforce data hygiene standards within the CLM system, including metadata completeness, renewal and expiration date tracking, and counterparty information accuracy
- Generate reports and dashboards from the CLM system to provide Legal and Finance leadership with visibility into contract status, obligations, and upcoming renewals
- Review, redline, and negotiate customer-proposed MNDAs and other standard commercial agreements, applying aPriori’s established playbooks and positions
- Review customer-proposed redlines to aPriori’s standard contract templates, including SaaS Agreements, on-premises software agreements, SOWs, and Order Documents
- Triage incoming contractual and legal issues, independently resolving routine matters and escalating non-standard or high-risk issues to the VP of Legal with clear context and a recommended path forward
- Develop and maintain a tracking system for non-standard contractual commitments and exceptions granted to customers, proactively alerting relevant internal stakeholders to obligations that require action or monitoring
- Complete customer vendor onboarding forms, security questionnaires, and procurement questionnaires, coordinating with Security, IT, Finance, and other internal teams to compile accurate responses
- Support aPriori’s responses to RFPs, RFIs, and similar procurement processes, with a focus on the legal, commercial, and contractual components
