Senior Contracts Manager

As a Senior Contracts Manager you will help GitLab move important commercial work forward by drafting reviewing and negotiating complex agreements tied to high-value transactions. You will partner closely with Sales and other cross-functional team members act as a trusted advisor on contract risk and help improve the forms playbooks and processes that support consistent decision-making across the business. This is a role with broad influence where you will use your judgment to balance business goals legal risk and operational efficiency in a fast-moving all-remote environment.

You will also help strengthen how the team works at scale by creating training and maintaining clear contract records in GitLab’s contract management systems. In your first year your impact will come from supporting complex deal work improving documentation and enablement and helping teams navigate commercial and technology agreements with clarity and confidence.

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of agreements including services consulting marketing licensing non-disclosure data privacy and other commercial and technology-related contracts with GitLab’s customers.
• Engage on top-priority and complex agreements connected to large-value transactions with a focus on practical risk assessment and timely execution.
• Partner with Sales team members and leadership as a trusted advisor on contract terms negotiation strategy and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Legal team members to develop and improve standardized forms contracting processes and supporting procedures.
• Participate in conversations with outside counsel related to policy creation and enforcement.
• Create and deliver training materials and enablement sessions for Sales team members.
• Maintain and update playbooks and related documentation by adding feedback guidance and process improvements.
• Input completed agreements into the contract management system and capture key contractual terms accurately.

• Experience drafting reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial and technology-related agreements within a software technology environment.
• Ability to handle complex or high-value contract matters and recommend practical options to mitigate legal and business risk.
• Knowledge of data privacy requirements and how they affect contract language and negotiation strategy.
• Skill in building clear training and enablement materials and presenting them to business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical project management and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively across functions and build trust with Sales Legal leadership and other internal partners.
• Comfort managing competing priorities with urgency attention to detail and sound judgment in a dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with GitLab or transferable experience using collaborative tools and working successfully in a transparent distributed workplace.

• Benefits to support your health finances and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

What We Do

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together they automate repetitive tasks to plan build secure test deploy and maintain software. With GitLab software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea.What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster more efficiently while strengthening security and compliance.Since the beginning we've been firm believers in remote work open source DevSecOps and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.

Why Work With Us

GitLab is where careers accelerate innovation flourishes and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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