Supabase Senior Contracts Manager at Supabase owning vendor contracting end to end and building scalable procurement workflows. Negotiate vendor agreements and manage risk using AI tools.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Contracts Manager to take ownership of vendor contracting at Supabase. You will be the go-to contracts partner for everything we buy.
This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role with real ownership, for an experienced negotiator who takes pride in making procurement faster while managing risk. You will negotiate directly, build the playbooks and workflows that let the business self-serve on low-risk deals, and escalate the right issues to Legal at the right time. We work AI-first in Legal: you will use Claude and Ironclad every day to move faster and with greater accuracy. Your work will shape how procurement and vendor contracting scale as Supabase grows.
Own vendor contracting end to end
Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of vendor agreements, including MSAs, order forms, SOWs, SaaS and cloud subscription terms, DPAs, and NDAs.
Serve as the single point of contact for all vendor contracting matters raised by FinOps, IT, Security, and business owners, from intake through signature, renewals, amendments, disputes, and offboarding. As capacity allows, you will also support the broader Commercial Legal team on other matters.
Apply and further build out our playbook and risk framework independently, and escalate to the Assistant General Counsel, Commercial where a deal falls outside approved positions or raises novel legal risk.
Negotiate data, privacy, and security terms (DPAs, security exhibits, cross-border transfers) within the Security team’s playbook, and bring in the AGC, Commercial or Privacy for anything outside it.
Review AI vendor terms, such as training on our data, output ownership, and model changes.
Build and scale vendor contracting operations
Build out and maintain our vendor playbook in Claude, so the whole team works from the same guidance and low-risk deals move without bottlenecks.
Design and improve intake, triage, and approval workflows with FinOps.
Own the vendor and procurement workflow in Ironclad, including intake, templates, approvals, and the repository, working with Legal Ops, who own the platform. Use it to track renewals and notice windows with FinOps and flag spend concentration risks.
Qualification
Deep knowledge of SaaSExperience at a fast-growing
Required
6 to 8+ years of experience negotiating procurement, vendor, or technology transactions contracting
Deep knowledge of SaaS, cloud, and software licensing terms
Experience negotiating directly with vendors and their counsel
Preferred
A degree in a relevant field (for example, law, economics, or political science), though we value experience over the specific degree.
Sell-side experience negotiating customer, partner, or reseller agreements for a SaaS or technology company, which helps you see vendor terms from the other side.
Hands-on experience with Ironclad or a similar CLM tool (Juro, Docusign CLM) or building AI-assisted legal workflows, ideally with some exposure to AI governance.
Experience working across jurisdictions or with distributed, international teams.
Experience at a fast-growing, developer-focused, cloud, security, or open source company.
