Contract Administrator

Role: Contracts Administrator I-UBRJP00032492

Sunnyvale, CA- Remote(PST)

2 months with Possible extension

Job Description:

Top 3 Skills:

• End-to-End Contract Negotiation & Drafting: Driving agreements (MSA, SOW, NDAs, and Evaluation agreements) to closure by drafting non-standard clauses and negotiating directly with external vendors and customers.
• Risk Mitigation & Strategic Advisory: Acting as a trusted business partner to identify potential legal issues, provide risk assessments, and ensure all deals protect the company’s interests.
• Process Optimization & Scalability: Developing and implementing contract practice standards, playbooks, and automated tools to improve workflow efficiency for the broader team.

Required Skills:

• Autonomy & Discretion: The ability to operate independently with significant discretion when communicating with internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to influence all levels of leadership, both internally and externally, to drive results and gain executive buy-off on complex projects.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Deep knowledge of contract approval processes, legal practice standards, and the ability to apply fallback guidelines set by a Legal Department.

Nice to Have:

• Strategic Framing: The ability to simplify sophisticated legal or project-based issues into concise summaries for executive decision-making.
• Project Management: Experience in driving large-scale legal projects, such as the creation of global contract templates and management policies.
• Business Development Mindset: A sense of urgency specifically tailored to driving deals for sales-focused teams (like Uber for Business) while balancing legal protection.
• Technical Proficiency: Mastery of Slack and the Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) within a professional environment is essential. While a background in Microsoft Office is valuable, candidates must demonstrate the ability to transfer those skills to GSuite. A strong ownership mindset is required to proactively upskill in these tools if not already proficient.

Description:

• With strong attention to detail, they will manage a wide range of sales contracts, statements of work, evaluation, and non-disclosure agreements.
• The Contracts Manager will provide strategic negotiation, risk assessment and management, and contract drafting support on global agreements.
• The Contracts Manager will collaborate extensively with stakeholders and cross-functional partners to develop and implement improvements to the contract processes and tools.

What You'll Do –

• Always act with a sense of urgency to drive agreements to closure while protecting Uber
• Operates with significant autonomy and discretion in communicating with Uber business clients and external customers and vendors
• Influences at all levels of leadership, both internally and externally, to deliver results
• Drafts non-standard clauses and negotiates MSA, Statements of Work, Orders Forms, Evaluation, and Non-Disclosure Agreements, including legal practice standards and fallback guidelines set by the Legal Department
• Acts as a subject matter authority for the organization in the application of the contract approval processes
• Develops contract practice standards, operating procedures and systems that enable the broader team to scale and work more efficiently and effectively
• Drive deals with key client customers throughout the Uber for Business team
• Be an active and trusted business partner, and ensure the provision of timely business focused advice to business clients by identifying potential legal issues and mitigating risk
• Drive standard methodologies in multiple legal projects, ranging from drafting contract templates, playbooks, contract management policies and legal support processes, with the goal of providing efficient and timely legal support to clients
• Ability to gain executive partner input on sophisticated projects, framing issues simply and concisely to acquire buy-off to move forward with key decisions/initiatives