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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cybersecurity attacks.

Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Position Overview:

The Proofpoint Legal Department is dedicated to providing expert legal advice in a fast-paced business and technical environment and supporting Proofpoint’s crucial mission of enabling organizations across the world to defend, protect, archive and govern their most sensitive data. This position will report to a Director, Legal in the department. The Sr. Contract Manager role is an important part of enhancing the culture and success of the legal function to help drive Proofpoint’s growth. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

•  Provide first line/same day, substantive legal support for certain transactions (largely commercial matters regarding template or form contracts), including (i) the initial response to legal requests; (ii) the review and approval of certain in-bound purchase orders and contracts; and (iii) providing general guidance on legal policy and process to business partners. (~35%)
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial, revenue-generating agreements, including SaaS, software, channel, and other service agreements with Fortune 1000 and Commercial customers (~30%)
• Continuously enhance contract management processes and procedures (~10%)
• Manage and administer the contract lifecycle and various legal or compliance processes (which may include leveraging legal technology solutions), including project management, document initiatives and reviews, approvals, indexing and organization of records and documents, filing, and data entry (~20%)
• Proactively communicate issues back to legal teammates and help communicate good business, legal, and operational processes throughout the organization; drafting and implementing related policies; travel as requested (~5%)

The What:

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience with providing support to enterprise sales teams and experience with commercial transactions with Fortune 1000 companies preferred
• 10+ years of experience as a Contract Manager and general experience in a broad range of legal and contract management issues
• Sound knowledge and understanding of core principles of SaaS, Software, and Intellectual Property and/or licensing
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with a variety of different clients and personalities
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to learn quickly
• Effective communication in person, in groups, over email and in more formal documentation
• Experience with developing and refining contract management processes preferred
• Experience handling data privacy and security issues

The How:

• Sound knowledge of contract law and regulatory requirements
• Highly collaborative, process-oriented, and organized individual with an ability to handle high volumes of requests, respond to them efficiently, and follow up with others to ensure similar responses from legal teammates
• Strong drafting skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to improve our forms, processes, and procedures
• Ability to build relationships and provide quick and high-quality services on a collaborative legal team
• Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
• Good sense of humor and the highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 116,690.00 - 183,370.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 96,880.00 - 152,240.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 87,220.00 - 137,060.00 USD