Contracts Manager

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements. 
 The Senior Commercial Contracts Manager role will be a driving force behind the success of the Legal team, and will be a “jack of all trades” supporting the legal function in a wide range of commercial contracts. This is a senior individual contributor role that serves as a primary contracts expert for complex and strategic deals. This person will have an important role in improving the overall operational efficiency of the Legal team, and will have the freedom to identify key areas of improvement for the Legal team and tackle them. This role will be based in any of our US located offices (Little Rock, AR, San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY) and will interface with business teams to negotiate and execute on a wide range of exciting commercial initiatives requiring creative and proactive legal guidance. This is an opportunity to make a high-impact contribution to a fast-paced organization operating on the cutting-edge of the Ad/MarTech industry. This role reports to LiveRamp’s Managing Counsel. You will:  Negotiate and draft complex and strategic commercial agreements, with the ability to capture complex legal and business concepts in a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand manner, operating with minimal supervision.  Serve as a senior contracts expert for designated products, regions, or segments, shaping deal strategy and recommended risk positions for stakeholders.  Negotiate agreements with suppliers in accordance with LiveRamp contracts policies and procedures while leveraging subject matter experts as needed.  Lead and collaborate with numerous internal stakeholders, including sales, finance, product, privacy, customer success, and business development on the sales cycle and risk mitigation to ensure all relevant interests are represented and aligned. Provide proactive guidance to cross-functional teams on commonly requested edits, non-standard terms and general contractual questions.  Make independent decisions with respect to balancing the need to be customer-responsive with that of protecting the LiveRamp’s interests.  Support the business and legal team members on legal review for Request for Proposal (RFPs), security questionnaires, and a variety of other customer-driven requests.  Respond promptly to the demands of an active SaaS sales team.  Provide informal mentorship and guidance to more junior contracts professionals and cross-functional partners on negotiation strategy, contract structures, and risk trade-offs.  Be a champion for a better, faster and simpler way of doing things, regularly identifying and implementing improvements to contracts templates, playbooks, and processes for the broader team.   About you:  At least 3–5+ years of experience independently drafting and negotiating commercial contracts in contracts manager or similar roles  Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and preferably with sales, finance, product, privacy, marketing and customer success teams  Comfort with ambiguity, multi-tasking, and independence, including making sound judgments in situations with incomplete information or competing priorities  Track record of identifying and implementing process or tooling improvements for a contracts or legal team Bonus Points: Prior experience working preferably with an Adtech/Martech, SaaS, data, or similar technology company The approximate annual base compensation range is $112,000 to $165,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team. 
 Benefits: People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do. Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.  Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave. Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.  Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more. Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.  Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers) RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located More about us: LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp. LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.  We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates. California residents: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process. To all recruitment agencies: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.