Contract Management Lead (Procurement)

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 216,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Procurement & SourcingEducation: professionalSkills: ["Product thinking","Stakeholder management","Operational excellence","Risk-aware judgment","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Build and lead an AI-led contracting help desk that scales contract drafting, review, negotiation guidance, and lifecycle management without adding headcount. Own the service roadmap, AI-enabled contracting framework, and a central CLM system of record (workflows, templates, reporting, and integrations). Enable sourcing coordinators with playbooks, training, and escalation support, while partnering across Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Finance to define approval guardrails and improve cycle time and quality.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
19 hours ago

Contract Management Lead (Procurement)

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Job Summary

Build and lead an AI-led contracting help desk that scales contract drafting, review, negotiation guidance, and lifecycle management without adding headcount. Own the service roadmap, AI-enabled contracting framework, and a central CLM system of record (workflows, templates, reporting, and integrations). Enable sourcing coordinators with playbooks, training, and escalation support, while partnering across Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Finance to define approval guardrails and improve cycle time and quality.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Procurement & Sourcing

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Own the product vision and roadmap for an AI-led contracting help desk, covering intake, triage, and lifecycle management.
  • ā€¢Build and continuously improve an AI-enabled contracting framework (agent-assisted drafting, clause/fallback recommendations, negotiation guidance, risk detection, and human-in-the-loop escalation).
  • ā€¢Own the CLM platform/system of record, including workflows, approved templates and playbooks, metadata, reporting, and integrations with procurement tools and repositories.
  • ā€¢Enable sourcing coordinators to lead day-to-day negotiations and agreement execution through training, clear ownership, service levels, and operational support.
  • ā€¢Partner across Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Finance to define approval guardrails, resolve escalations, pilot AI/CLM capabilities, and measure outcomes (cycle time, automation, quality, adoption).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 216,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢Bring an AI-forward mindset with experience building/deploying AI-enabled agents, automation, or decision-support workflows, including evaluation and human review safeguards.
  • ā€¢Operate like a product manager: identify user needs, define a roadmap, prioritize workflows, launch pilots, and continuously improve using data and feedback.
  • ā€¢Have strong commercial contracting and legal-language judgment; a JD/law degree is strongly preferred (or comparable legal background).
  • ā€¢Have implemented or owned a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, including templates, clause libraries, integrations, reporting, and scalable workflows.
  • ā€¢Build and run a service model that enables sourcing coordinators with clear ownership, tracked delivery, and risk escalation without personally owning every negotiation.
Experience:AIAutomationContract lifecycle managementProcurement
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:Product thinkingStakeholder managementOperational excellenceRisk-aware judgmentCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:AI agentsAI-enabled workflowsAutomationContract lifecycle management (CLM)Contract repositoriesClause libraryWorkflowsReportingHuman-in-the-loop

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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