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You will own the day-to-day management of our contracting process, from initial intake through execution, working closely with Legal and cross-functional business teams to keep agreements moving efficiently.\n\nThis is a high-impact role for an experienced contracts professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, exercises sound judgment, and takes ownership of processes. You will help build the systems, workflows, and playbooks that enable Reflection’s legal team to scale alongside the business, while freeing attorneys to focus on complex negotiations and strategic legal matters.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nOwn the end-to-end contract management process, including intake, triage, tracking, internal approvals, signature coordination, and recordkeeping.\n\nConduct first-pass review and negotiation of routine agreements, particularly NDAs, using established templates, playbooks, and escalation guidelines.\n\nSupport commercial contracting across a range of agreements, including vendor and procurement agreements, SaaS and technology agreements, data licensing agreements, and other commercial contracts.\n\nServe as a central point of coordination between Legal and business stakeholders, proactively managing follow-ups, outstanding issues, and execution timelines.\n\nCoordinate cross-functional reviews with Security, Privacy, Compliance, Finance, and other teams, ensuring appropriate approvals are obtained.\n\nManage contract documentation, version control, signature workflows, and executed agreement storage.\n\nIdentify nonstandard contractual terms and escalate substantive legal or business issues to the appropriate stakeholders.\n\nDevelop and improve contracting workflows, templates, playbooks, and standard operating procedures to streamline operations and reduce turnaround times.\n\nMaintain contract trackers and reporting on volume, status, turnaround times, and bottlenecks.\n\nIdentify opportunities to automate and scale contracting processes as the company grows.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\nAt least 5+ years of experience in contracts management, commercial legal operations, or a related role.\n\nPrior experience working directly with an in-house legal team, supporting attorneys and business stakeholders through commercial contracting processes.\n\nDemonstrated experience independently managing commercial agreements from intake through execution.\n\nFamiliarity with commercial contracts, including NDAs, vendor agreements, SaaS agreements, and other technology-related agreements.\n\nStrong understanding of contract lifecycle management, internal approval processes, and signature workflows.\n\nFamiliarity with AI-powered tools and workflows, including the ability to use AI agents and automation to streamline contracting processes, improve efficiency, and scale legal operations.\n\nExcellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage a high volume of requests and competing priorities.\n\nSound judgment — you know what you can handle independently, when to push a process forward, and when to escalate to Legal.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across legal, technical, and business teams.\n\nProactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a fast-moving environment.\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\nWe believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.\n\nWe want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.\n\nTop-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.\n\nStock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.\n\nHealth & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.\n\nMeals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.\n\nLife & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.\n\nVacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.\n\nSponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.\n\nTeam building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.\n\nExport Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.\n\nWe want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.\n\nTop-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.\n\nStock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.\n\nHealth & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.\n\nMeals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.\n\nLife & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.\n\nVacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.\n\nSponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.\n\nTeam building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.\n\nExport Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. 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