Senior Contracts Manager
Gardena, CA$125k - $185kPosted 2mo ago
About the role
Contracts Manager responsible for contract formation, negotiation support, contractual risk management, and post-award contract administration across domestic and international defense opportunities to enable fast execution while ensuring compliance, IP positions, payment structures, and obligations are understood before commitments.
Responsibilities
- Review, negotiate, administer, and maintain customer contracts, subcontracts, NDAs, teaming agreements, purchase terms, and related contractual instruments.
- Lead review of contract type, terms and conditions, representations, warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability, termination provisions, delivery requirements, acceptance criteria, and payment terms.
- Evaluate FAR/DFARS clauses, customer flowdowns, data rights, intellectual property provisions, export-sensitive provisions, and subcontract requirements.
- Support BD and Proposal teams during solicitations by identifying contractual requirements, exceptions, risks, and required representations.
- Coordinate with Pricing and Finance on contract structures that affect margin, billing triggers, milestone payments, funded value, cash timing, working capital, and financial exposure.
- Coordinate with Security and Compliance on CUI, CMMC, DD254s, export controls, facility-clearance requirements, and customer-specific compliance obligations.
- Maintain executed agreements, modifications, contractual deliverables, notice requirements, option dates, funding limits, periods of performance, and other contractual obligations.
- Support contract modifications, change orders, claims, equitable-adjustment requests, closeout, and other post-award actions as applicable.
- Establish scalable contract-review, approval, delegation-of-authority, and records-management processes.
- Escalate material contractual, financial, IP, delivery, compliance, or operational risks before commitments are made.
Qualifications
- 7–12 years in defense contracts, government contracting, program contracts, legal operations, subcontract administration, or related work.
- Strong working knowledge of FAR/DFARS, OTAs, CSOs, fixed-price and cost-type structures, data rights, flowdowns, and government-contract administration.
- Experience negotiating and administering contracts involving hardware, manufacturing, R&D, prototypes, or defense technology strongly preferred.
- Experience working directly with BD, Finance, Programs, Legal, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
- Strong commercial judgment and ability to distinguish material contractual risk from issues that can be resolved pragmatically.
- JD or legal background helpful but not required.
Skills
Required:Contract negotiationFAR/DFARS knowledgeRisk assessment
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Vision
- Dental
- 401k
- Lunch
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Singularity Defense Corp
Singularity is answering humanity’s call to engineer counter-weapon systems at scale. We build to protect people on the battlefield and at home.
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