# Contract Management Lead (Procurement) **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $216K - $240K **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c8750f8c-0e56-49c0-b34a-251c1797d816?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e6ada30c-cdd ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $216K – $240K, plus generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the Team OpenAI's Sourcing and Procurement organization helps the company acquire and scale the products, services, and partnerships needed to advance its mission. As the organization grows, we are looking for a strategic builder-operator to establish an AI-led contracting capability that improves speed, consistency, and execution across the company. ## About the Role As a Contract Management Lead, you will build, lead, and continuously improve OpenAI's AI-led contracting help desk,a new capability designed to scale contract drafting, review, negotiation, and lifecycle management without significantly increasing headcount. You will own the service strategy, operating model, delivery oversight, coordinator enablement, workflow design, and performance tracking. Sourcing coordinators will manage day-to-day negotiations and agreement execution; you will ensure they have the tools, playbooks, training, guidance, and escalation support required to deliver timely, consistent, and well-governed outcomes. ## Responsibilities - Own the product vision and roadmap for an AI-led contracting help desk, translating user needs into a scalable, measurable service for contract intake, triage, and lifecycle management. - Build and continuously improve the AI-enabled contracting framework, including agent-assisted drafting, clause and fallback recommendations, negotiation guidance, risk detection, and human-in-the-loop escalation. - Own the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform and system of record, including workflows, approved templates and playbooks, metadata, reporting, and integrations with procurement tools and repositories. - Enable sourcing coordinators to lead day-to-day negotiations and agreement execution through effective training, clear ownership, service levels, and operational support. - Partner with Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Finance to define approval guardrails, resolve escalations, and deploy AI responsibly. - Pilot emerging contract lifecycle management and AI capabilities; measure cycle time, automation, quality, coordinator delivery, and stakeholder adoption; and use those insights to improve the service. ## Requirements - Bring an AI-forward mindset, with experience building or deploying AI-enabled agents, automation, or decision-support workflows and a practical understanding of evaluation, human review, confidentiality, and operational safeguards. - Think and operate like a product manager: identify user needs, define a roadmap, prioritize workflows, launch pilots, and continuously improve the experience using data and feedback. - Bring strong commercial contracting and legal-language judgment; a JD, law degree, or comparable legal background is strongly preferred, but exceptional equivalent experience is welcome. - Have implemented or owned a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform and can design templates, clause libraries, integrations, reporting, and scalable workflows. - Can build and run a service model that enables sourcing coordinators, clarifies ownership, tracks delivery, and escalates risk without personally owning every negotiation. - Build trusted cross-functional partnerships and bring structure, speed, and sound judgment to ambiguous, high-stakes operational problems. ## Skills ### Required - AI - contract lifecycle management - commercial contracting - legal-language judgment - product management ### Nice to have - JD - law degree - CLM platform implementation --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c8750f8c-0e56-49c0-b34a-251c1797d816?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)