Contracts Manager

Job Description

About the company

Robinhood is democratizing finance for all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers, removing fees, and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

Robinhood is a fast-growing company and was recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50 and a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2019. We’re continuing to grow and are looking for incredible talent that can help us achieve our mission.

About the role

We’re looking to hire our first Contracts Manager to join our expanding Legal team. Robinhood is seeking an experienced, business-minded and self-motivated candidate who can help us achieve our goals by managing high-volume commercial agreement negotiations and assisting in the day to day approval process for such agreements. The successful candidate will be an engaged and resourceful self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and excellent at building strong relationships.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing commercial agreements
• Advising business clients on approval processes, company policies and procedures
• Creating and improving agreement templates, trainings, processes, and other resources
• Ensuring proper internal approvals are received for contract deviations that arise during negotiation
• Ensuring contract terms and conditions are consistent with internal policies and goals
• Helping create a document-tracking database with the capacity to generate reliable reports on contract status, volume, processing times and other operational metrics
• Contributing to the improvement of the Legal department and help to provide quality legal services to the company

Some things we consider critical for this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5+ years of relevant professional legal experience, including prior in-house experience
• Experience in enterprise software and/or contract management and database systems
• Ability to work closely with attorneys and others on the team
• Enjoys problem solving and developing new processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a broad audience
• Ability to multitask, prioritize workload and competing priorities
• Demonstrates strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage high-volume workloads, multiple stakeholder demands and ever-shifting priorities all while instilling confidence
• Efficient, effective and well organized
• Customer service oriented
• Respectful, open, and collaborative

Bonus points:

• Paralegal or other professional certification a plus
• Organized self-starter with a focus on excellence and entrepreneurship
• Experience related to financial institutions and/or fin-tech companies is a plus
• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills

Feeling ready to give 100% to democratizing finance for all? We’d love to have you apply, even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Robinhood, we’re looking for people invigorated by our mission, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.