Strategic Contracts Lead, Public Sector

St. Louis, MOfull timeOn Site

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senior

$138k–$173k

H1B: yes

Scale AI Strategic Contracts Lead at Scale AI managing government contracts lifecycle and negotiating agreements with customers, subcontractors, and vendors. This role supports legal and business teams by improving contracting processes and ensuring compliance with government regulations.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and administer government contracts lifecycle management processes and systems.
Negotiate and administer agreements between Scale and our customers, subcontractors, and vendors ensuring adherence to company policies and government regulations.
Respond to inquiries from our customers, subcontractors, and vendors.
Maintain Scale registration, reporting, and disclosures in government systems such as SAM.gov, PIEE, CPARS, etc.
Work closely with public sector legal teams to manage and improve our contracting processes, including contract management systems and contracts signature systems
Guide stakeholders in self-serve contracting processes as well as directly negotiate NDAs, task orders, modifications, prime contracts, vendor agreements, and other agreements
Partner with cross functional partners to track ongoing obligations post-signature
Document fulfillment of contract milestones/deliverables, invoices and cash collection.
Support the business and legal team members on legal review for customer questionnaires, security questionnaires, and a variety of other customer-driven requests.
Help build and maintain internal processes, resources, and tools to help scale the legal function.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degreeExperience with GSA schedulesFluency with spreadsheets

Required

Active Security Clearance or ability/willingness to apply.
Experience with a wide array of legal documents and contractual agreements, including NDAs, task orders, modifications, prime contracts, vendor agreements, and other commercial contracts
Experience working with contract lifecycle management tools such as Ironclad.
Bachelor’s degree.
5+ years of experience as a contracts manager, paralegal, or similar experience
Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and other agency supplements.
Knowledge of government contract and subcontract processes including flow downs, change management, inspection, acceptance, payment, warranty, close-out and records retention.
Experience with Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) terms and mitigation plans.
A roll-up your sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small and a collaborative, low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization

Preferred

Strong background working with SaaS or other technology companies.
Experience with government acquisitions via Broad Agency Announcement, Commercial Solutions Opening, Other Transaction Authority, SBIR Phase 3, Consortiums, and other unique competitive and non-competitive government procurement types.
Experience with GSA schedules, Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), BPAs, and other multi-award contract vehicles.
A track record of taking initiative and being resourceful to accomplish ambitious goals.
Effective organizational skills and and ability to juggle many competing priorities.
Fluency with spreadsheets, basic statistics, and an ability to use data to drive decisions.
Experience working with various business tools such as Salesforce, Airtable, and Jira.
Understanding of contract basics and a desire and willingness to learn.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
PTO
Equity/RSU

Company

Scale AI

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