Contracts Specialist (Dallas)

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Legal team serves as proactive advisors and business partners, enabling effective legal and operational solutions in support of PowerSchool’s vision. This includes providing advice on company strategies and implementation, supporting complex business transactions, and negotiating critical contracts.

Description

Our Contracts team oversees the lifecycle of contracts within PowerSchool. The team drafts, negotiates, and finalizes contracts with vendors, partners, and customers. This team is crucial for minimizing risks and making operations run smoothly in our organization. This role will have the opportunity to participate in a vital role in the contracting processes and activities of the Company by reviewing, drafting and negotiating various types of legal agreements and other commercial documents.  Additionally, this role will support our acquisition strategy and the needs of the legal department to facilitate all aspects of the contracting management and process.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

• Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements, including procurement, vendor, strategic and technology partnership, distribution, referral, international and domestic sales and renewal agreements.
• Serve as Legal Lead for Procurement and handle legal escalations.
• Support merger and acquisition initiatives and related special projects.
• Assist with integration of acquired companies.
• Review and prepare responses to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) or Requests for Information (RFIs).
• Identify, evaluate, and resolve simple and complex business issues in a collaborative manner through cross-functional business teams.
• Support the team of attorneys, advising internal business stakeholders on commercial, risk, and contractual issues.
• Perform contract administration duties as needed, including extracting contract attributes and organizing and maintaining the contracts database, contract templates, signed contracts and other legal correspondence and documentation.
• Provide general administrative and legal support for the Legal department.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervising attorney or Chief Legal Officer.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of relevant and related work experience, including contract negotiation, drafting and administration, preferably with a privately held company, publicly traded company and/or a top law firm.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; additional experience may be substitute for an advanced Degree.
• Strong demonstrated experience and ability to independently and confidently draft and negotiate, with minimum supervision, a high volume of commercial agreements with varying degrees of complexity, including procurement, IT, hardware, SaaS, partnership, referral, resale, distribution agreements, and professional services agreements.
• Strong demonstrated experience to oversee legal support for the procurement team and handle a variety of escalations and solve problems.
• Proficient understanding of intellectual property and technology licensing and strong experience working in the software industry.
• Strong ability to identify material issues, conduct critical analysis, offer practical and pragmatic solutions to mitigate risks, and clearly and concisely communicate and summarize material issues and risks.
• Attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines, prioritize, multi-task, respond under pressure and cope well with change.
• Ability to spot basic data privacy and security issues.
• Proven experience as a contracts specialist, administrator or manager working on high-volume and high-impact transactions with various types of vendors, customers, partners, subcontractors, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in supporting merger and acquisition.
• Experience or exposure to handling international and domestic RFPs or RFIs or the equivalent.
• Experience with supporting international sales.
• Juris Doctorate or Paralegal Certification is a plus.
• Technology savvy, including proficiency in contract management and ticketing tools (e.g., Coupa, Jira, FreshService, Salesforce, CLM, data rooms).

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Comprehensive 401(k) plan
• Generous Parental Leave
• Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
• Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $84,800 - $130,000 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; specific geographic location; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.

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