Legal Operations & Contracts Specialist (Remote - US Based)

Accredible

Accredible

Administration, Legal, Operations
United States · Remote
Posted on Aug 8, 2025

🚀 Join the team powering the future of digital credentials!

Accredible, the world’s leading digital credential platform, is hiring a Legal Operations & Contracts Specialist to build and own our internal legal contracting processes. As our in-house legal expert focused on sales agreements, you’ll play a critical role in accelerating deal flow, minimizing risk, and enabling scale. You’ll manage contract workflows, negotiate legal terms, coordinate with external counsel, and ensure legal operations run smoothly across the organization.

If you're process-minded, detail-oriented, and passionate about enabling business teams with strong legal and contract support — we want to hear from you!

🎯 Who you are

You’re a contract-savvy legal professional who understands the SaaS landscape. You know how to redline agreements, assess legal risk, and balance business priorities with smart legal safeguards. You love improving processes, reducing bottlenecks, and helping deals close faster. Your communication and organization skills are second to none.

💻 What you’ll be doing

  • Managing the legal review pipeline for sales contracts and commercial agreements
  • Reviewing and redlining agreements (e.g., MSAs, DPAs, NDAs) and negotiating terms directly with prospective clients
  • Partnering with external counsel for complex legal reviews, while prudently managing outside legal spend
  • Serving as the internal point of contact for all sales-related legal matters
  • Streamlining and optimizing legal workflows, templates, and contract processes
  • Maintaining visibility of contract statuses and ensuring clear turnaround expectations
  • Documenting legal operations procedures and contributing to legal enablement across the org
  • Organizing executed contracts and enhancing the system for renewal tracking, termination dates, and obligations

🧠 How we work

This role reports directly to the CFO. You'll work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Finance while also engaging external counsel. You'll be a key player in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

🧭 Why you’ll love it here

  • Competitive Salary
  • 35 Days Annual Vacation
  • 100% Paid Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance
  • Equity Options
  • Flexible Leave Policies
  • Life Insurance & Employee Assistance Programs
  • Remote Work Flexibility
  • Two hours per week (paid) to spend learning anything you like related to your role, plus a budget to spend on learning materials (courses, books, conferences). We love education and we believe in nurturing your growth!
  • A promise to invest in your growth personally and professionally. Wherever you would like to go and whatever you would like to do, we will be there to support you.
  • Many additional perks!

👀 What we’re looking for

  • Previous Experience: Expertise in contracts review and redlining (preferably in SaaS or tech)
  • Legal Knowledge: Familiarity with global data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)
  • Process Orientated: Ability to define, document, and optimize contract review workflows
  • Negotiation Skills: Excellent negotiation, risk analysis, and attention to detail
  • Proactive Communicator: Clear, timely, and self-driven in communication particularly experience coordinating external legal counsel and managing expectations
  • Problem Solver: You’re solutions-oriented and eager to find resolutions quickly
  • Quick Learner: You adapt fast and have a good understanding of complex legal terminology
  • Integrity First: You act ethically, transparently, and with professionalism
  • Collaborative & Open-Minded: You value feedback and support cross-functional success
  • Enthusiastic & Curious: You love learning and take ownership of your development

🌟 What we offer

🌍 Remote-first

Accredible are remote first, people-first, and proud to be a mission-driven company shaping the future of learning and achievement.

Accredible is Open and Inclusive. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, skin color, ethnicity, age, size, nationality, sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family structure, culture, subculture, political views, education level, identity, and self-identification. We welcome teachers, learners, activists, artists, dreamers, doers, ordinary people, extraordinary people, and everyone in between.

❓Looking for more info?

Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth. Over 2,300 organizations, including Google, IAPP, McGraw Hill, MIT, Skillsoft, Slack, and the University of Cambridge, rely on Accredible to manage and measure everything from issuing digital certificates and badges to visualizing learning pathways to spotlighting certified learners. Founded in 2013, Accredible has helped issue and verify over 125 million career-advancing credentials. To learn more, visit accredible.com

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