Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fieldwire by Hilti is seeking a proactive, commercially minded Paralegal to join their growing Contracts & Legal Operations team. The role involves managing contracts end-to-end, supporting deal deployment, and ensuring efficient and compliant operational processes. The Paralegal will collaborate with various teams to streamline contract management and advise on legal matters.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including customer contracts, NDAs, vendor agreements, procurement terms, and amendments
- Act as primary interface with customers for contractual matters — ensuring contractual obligations are clearly communicated, understood, and monitored throughout the contract lifecycle
- Review terms and conditions to identify and address risks across financial terms, acceptance criteria, delivery requirements, warranty, IP, termination, indemnification, and all other material risk areas; recommend mitigation strategies
- Plug into deployment efforts: structure contracts, pricing frameworks, and operational setup for new customer and partner engagements
- Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency — including template management, playbook development, and automation
- Collaborate with business units (Sales, Finance, Product) and legal team members to streamline contract management processes and drive continuous improvement
- Implement and administer the CLM platform (Summize) — including redline workflows, approval routing, Salesforce integration, and automated tracking
- Support procurement activities: evaluate vendor terms, track renewal schedules, manage pricing insights across the vendor portfolio
- Assist with and drive internal scaling initiatives including office lease management, office expansion, and international operational setup
- Handle office operations matters including HQ building operations support, lease administration, and vendor/facilities management
- Advise on a variety of legal matters including information security and compliance, intellectual property rights, and data privacy — including negotiating data protection agreements (DPAs) and answering data privacy queries
- Maintain familiarity with CLM and security tools relevant to contract governance and compliance
- Assist with and drive internal initiatives such as DOD compliance support, risk management activities, and audit preparation
- Monitor regulatory and contractual obligations; proactively flag upcoming milestones, renewals, and risks to relevant stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved programme, or equivalent legal training
- 3+ years of paralegal or contracts experience, ideally in a SaaS, technology, or fast-growth company
- Direct experience with a variety of legal matters including strategic business agreements, information security and compliance, IP, and data privacy (including negotiating DPAs)
- Strong working knowledge of commercial contract structures, risk identification, and mitigation strategies
- Experience with CLM platforms and/or security/compliance tools (e.g. Summize, Ironclad, DocuSign)
- Familiarity with Salesforce or equivalent CRM and how contracts integrate with deal workflows
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to explain complex legal concepts clearly to business stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams independently
- High level of integrity, discretion, and attention to detail
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, scaling environment with evolving processes
- Versatile self-starter — comfortable picking up any topic as it arises, from security questionnaires to ad-hoc compliance or legal requests, and running with it independently
- Experience with office lease administration and facilities management
- Familiarity with DOD compliance requirements or government contracting standards
- Knowledge of international operations, entity setup, or cross-border contracting
- Exposure to construction industry contracts, lien waivers, or project-based procurement
- Experience supporting a Deal Desk or Revenue Operations function
- Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy frameworks as applied to commercial agreements
Benefits
- In addition to the salary you may be eligible for a corporate bonus which can range up to 30%.
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