# Contracts Manager, APAC

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Sydney, Australia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is seeking a Contracts Manager to join its team in Sydney, Australia as one of the founding members of its Commercial Legal team in the region.

The successful candidate will work closely with local in-region counsel and lead counsel to support commercial and technology transactions across the region. They will review, draft, and negotiate commercial and procurement contracts that support Anthropic's cutting-edge AI systems.

Key responsibilities:

- Draft, analyse, negotiate, and complete complex commercial transactions with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners

- Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency

- Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes

- Work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams

- Partner with in-region counsel and lead counsel on day-to-day triage of regional legal matters

- Drive the regional rollout of process improvements and policy updates

Minimum qualifications:

- Substantive knowledge of software and SaaS agreements, reseller agreements, services agreements, and general commercial contract terms

- Ability to independently draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial and procurement contracts

- Experience managing the full contract lifecycle for technology transactions, sales organisations, and/or partnerships

Preferred qualifications:

- At least 8+ years of related contract management experience

- Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup

- Prior experience as part of a global or distributed legal team

- A track record of operating with a high degree of autonomy

- Experience with contract lifecycle management platforms

- Strong habits around async communication and proactive status updates

Logistics:

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role

- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time

- Visa sponsorship: Anthropic sponsors visas

## Skills

### Required
- contract management
- commercial transactions
- procurement contracts
- SaaS agreements
- reseller agreements
- services agreements

### Nice to have
- contract lifecycle management platforms
- async communication
- proactive status updates
- autonomy
- global legal team experience

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