[Hiring] Contracts Manager @Faeth Therapeutics

Role Description

We are looking for a highly self-motivated Contracts Manager / Senior Contracts Manager to join our Legal team as Faeth's first in-house contracts professional. The Contracts Manager will negotiate and manage the company's agreements end to end:

• Drafting, redlining, and negotiating directly with counterparties.
• Getting each deal approved, signed, filed, and tracked.

This position will collaborate with every function in the company, particularly Clinical and CMC, to complete their agreements quickly and well. This role spans both sides of contract work:

• Negotiation: understanding which terms matter in a biotech agreement, protecting the company's interests in areas such as intellectual property, confidentiality, and data, and resolving the remaining points efficiently.
• Operation: managing the process, the Ironclad repository, the playbooks, and the template library to simplify contract acquisition.

We place a premium on judgment and practicality:

• Moving agreements to signature quickly.
• Focusing negotiation on terms that carry real risk or value.
• Avoiding unnecessary revisions.

A law degree is not required; substantial experience negotiating biotech agreements is essential. We will level the role as Contracts Manager or Senior Contracts Manager depending on experience.

Reports to: General Counsel

Location: Remote (U.S.)

Qualifications

• 5+ years negotiating and managing contracts at a biotech or pharmaceutical company, or at a law firm or CRO serving them, with most of your career in life sciences.
• Direct, hands-on experience negotiating the standard biotech agreement set with counterparties.
• Practical judgment: a record of closing agreements quickly, protecting the terms that matter, and resolving lower-stakes points without unnecessary back-and-forth.
• Experience administering a contract lifecycle management system.
• A track record of owning the administrative side of contracting with organizational discipline and a service mindset.
• Active, current use of AI tools in your work, and an appetite to go deeper.

Requirements

• Preferred: Ironclad Signature or Docusign experience.
• Public-company experience.
• Experience building playbooks or a template library or leading a CLM implementation.
• Exposure to clinical operations contracting.
• Broader legal operations experience.
• A paralegal certificate or law degree is welcome but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a well-funded, clinical-stage biotech.
• 100% remote work and flexible schedule.
• Health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• Generous parental leave.
• Traditional and Roth 401k.
• Mission-oriented, remote-first culture.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

All offers of employment are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check and verification of eligibility to work in the United States.