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About the Role
Provide strategic legal counsel across the procurement contracting pipeline, balancing business opportunity with legal risk. Partner across Legal, Procurement, Operations, IT, Marketing, and HR to efficiently review and negotiate a high volume of diverse agreements.
Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, and review a wide variety of commercial and technical contracts, using a consistent, risk-based approach aligned with established legal standards.
- Partner across the firm to streamline the procurement and contracting process and build strong stakeholder relationships.
- Ensure contract intake is complete, accurate, and business-ready for efficient legal review.
- Support Procurement with SLAs, training, playbooks, and practical legal guidance.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on supplier contracts, risk management, terms, and disputes.
- Escalate complex legal and risk matters to appropriate firm counsel.
- Partner with stakeholders to develop and maintain supplier contracting policies, standards, and compliance practices.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and recommend proactive updates.
- Help develop and maintain firm-wide supplier contract templates.
- Support contracting training and knowledge-sharing across the firm.
- Foster a collaborative, respectful, and high-performing team environment.
Requirements
- Proven expertise drafting and negotiating supplier and technology contracts for global organizations.
- Strong command of contract terms, regulatory requirements, IT, and data management.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across all organizational levels.
- Strong project, time, and change management skills, with the ability to prioritize and meet competing deadlines.
- Collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset with sound judgment, discretion, and decision-making.
- Trusted to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and care.
- Juris doctor with active license in at least one jurisdiction.
- Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience providing contract legal counseling, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Experience developing contract negotiation playbooks, processes, and training.
- Proven experience drafting and negotiating AI-related agreements.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Skills
- Contract drafting
- Contract negotiation
- Supplier contracts
- Technology contracts
- Contract terms
- Regulatory requirements
- IT
- Data management
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Project management
- Time management
- Change management
- Risk management
- Legal counseling
Location
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Washington state
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Juris doctor
Salary/Compensations
- Colorado compensation range: $138,450 to $218,880 annually
- Illinois compensation range: $146,110 to $231,010 annually
- Washington state compensation range: $146,040 to $230,890 annually
- Washington, D.C. compensation range: $157,720 to $249,360 annually
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 401(k) plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Accrued paid time off plan starting at 20 days annually
- Personal medical leave
- Parental leave
- Up to 10 paid holidays
- Family care benefits
About the Company
- At Ashurst Perkins Coie US LLP, our people are our greatest asset.
- Join a collaborative, high-performing Commercial Contracts team where your expertise will help shape the employee experience across our global organization.
- In this role, if you are passionate about delivering exceptional service and making a lasting impact, you will find meaningful opportunities to grow your career while helping create an outstanding experience for our people.