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Strategic Contracts Lead, Public Sector

Scale AI· Public Sector
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Washington, DC$138.4k - $173kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Contract Manager role supporting Scale's commercial and public sector teams. Responsible for reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and administering government contracts; improving contract workflows and systems; partnering cross-functionally to scale the legal function.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and administer government contracts lifecycle management processes and systems.
  • Negotiate and administer agreements between Scale and customers, subcontractors, and vendors ensuring adherence to company policies and government regulations.
  • Respond to inquiries from customers, subcontractors, and vendors.
  • Maintain Scale registration, reporting, and disclosures in government systems such as SAM.gov, PIEE, CPARS, etc.
  • Work closely with public sector legal teams to manage and improve contracting processes, including contract management systems and contracts signature systems
  • Guide stakeholders in self-serve contracting processes as well as directly negotiate NDAs, task orders, modifications, prime contracts, vendor agreements, and other agreements
  • Partner with cross functional partners to track ongoing obligations post-signature
  • Document fulfillment of contract milestones/deliverables, invoices and cash collection.
  • Support the business and legal team members on legal review for customer questionnaires, security questionnaires, and a variety of other customer-driven requests.
  • Help build and maintain internal processes, resources, and tools to help scale the legal function.

Qualifications

  • Active Security Clearance.
  • Experience with a wide array of legal documents and contractual agreements, including NDAs, task orders, modifications, prime contracts, vendor agreements, and other commercial contracts
  • Experience working with contract lifecycle management tools such as Ironclad.
  • Bachelor’s degree.
  • 5+ years of experience as a contracts manager, paralegal, or similar experience
  • Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and other agency supplements.
  • Knowledge of government contract and subcontract processes including flow downs, change management, inspection, acceptance, payment, warranty, close-out and records retention.
  • Experience with Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) terms and mitigation plans.
  • A roll-up your sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small and a collaborative, low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization

Skills

Required:Contract drafting and negotiationContract lifecycle management (CLM)Government contracting knowledgeRegulatory and compliance

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • commuter stipend (potential)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI

Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.

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