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As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software, we support the full education ecosystem-from the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators, students, and families.\nTeam Overview\nOur 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.\nResponsibilities\nDescription\nThe Commercial Legal team manages the full lifecycle of PowerSchool’s commercial agreements, supporting transactions with customers, vendors, and partners while enabling the business to move efficiently and responsibly manage risk.\nThis role sits at the intersection of commercial contracting, revenue generation, and business enablement. As a Senior Contracts Administrator, you will play a key role in supporting high-impact business relationships while helping strengthen PowerSchool’s approach to contracting, compliance, and risk management.\nYou will partner closely with North America Sales, Renewal Operations, Customer Success, Order Management, Finance, compliance and multiple other internal teams to review and negotiate agreements and support North America sales and renewal contracting processes. This is a highly collaborative and visible role that offers exposure to complex commercial transactions and evolving privacy considerations in a technology environment.\nWhat You’ll Do\nServe as a vital member on the company’s legal team primarily responsible for providing legal assistance and counseling to support North America sales and renewals. This includes triaging issues, establishing priorities and escalating complex issues to the Attorney Lead as needed in support of these functions. \nOwn the review, drafting, and negotiation of a high volume of commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with business goals while mitigating risk. \nIdentify risks and recommend commercially practical solutions in collaboration with attorneys and senior team members, including identifying operational, legal, business and information privacy and security risks in agreements. \nReview and prepare contractual and legal responses to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs) as needed.\nSupport the integration of acquired companies’ commercial agreements, as needed. \nIdentify, evaluate, and resolve both routine and complex business issues through collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.\nSupport contract lifecycle management processes, including maintaining templates, extracting key terms, and managing executed agreements within contract systems.\nContribute to improvements in contracting workflows, templates, and processes to increase efficiency and scalability.\nPerform other duties as assigned by supervising attorney or Chief Legal Officer to support Legal Department’s strategic objectives.\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications\nMinimum 6+ years of relevant professional experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and administration, preferably with a privately held company, publicly traded company, and/or top law firm.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; additional experience may be substituted for an advanced degree.\nDemonstrated ability to independently and confidently draft and negotiate, with minimal supervision, a high volume of commercial agreements of varying complexity under time constraints, including:\nMaster services and professional services agreements\nSaaS and software license agreements, including service level agreements (SLAs)\nStatements of work\nPartnership, reseller, distribution, strategic alliance, procurement, and vendor agreements\nNon-disclosure agreements (NDAs)\n\nProven ability to manage stakeholder and customer escalations and to resolve issues effectively and pragmatically\nSolid understanding of intellectual property concepts and technology licensing, with experience in the software industry.\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to identify material legal and business issues, assess risk, and recommend practical solutions.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly summarize complex issues and risks.\nStrong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.\nAbility to identify basic data privacy and information security issues.\nPrior experience working in a high-volume, high-impact, high-velocity contracting environment with customers, vendors, partners, and other third parties.\nAbility to come into the office 3 desiganted days a week (Tues-Wed-Thurs).\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with government entities or municipalities.\nExperience negotiating service level agreements (SLAs) and agreements involving artificial intelligence or emerging technologies.\nWorking knowledge of data privacy laws and experience negotiating data protection and privacy-related agreements.\nFamiliarity with intellectual property and technology licensing concepts\nExperience with integration projects post-acquisition\nExperience with contract lifecycle management tools and systems (e.g., Salesforce, CLM platforms, Jira, Fresh Service, Coupa).\nLaw or paralegal degree certification.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou effectively manage a high volume of agreements with strong attention to detail and sound judgment\nYou build trusted relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and approach challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset\nYou balance speed and risk, helping the business move forward while ensuring compliance\nYou contribute to improving processes and tools that enhance team efficiency and scalability\nYou demonstrate increasing confidence and efficiency in identifying and addressing legal, privacy, compliance and other cross-border considerations\nWhy Join PowerSchool Legal\nThis is an excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in commercial contracting while gaining meaningful exposure to data privacy, regulatory compliance, and global legal operations. You will play a key role in enabling business growth while developing skills that position you for future advancement within the Legal organization.\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompensation & Benefits\nPowerSchool offers the following benefits:\nComprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)\nFlexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts\nShort-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability\nComprehensive 401(k) plan\nGenerous Parental Leave\nUnrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)\nWellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program\nTuition Reimbursement\nOptional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage\nA reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $88,000 - $110,000 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; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.\nEEO Commitment\nEEO Commitment\nPowerSchool 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. 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