Contracts and Legal Operations Manager

As the world's largest car sharing marketplace, Turo is growing fast and hiring talent in the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia! Our driven, down-to-earth team empowers you to push yourself, make a huge impact, and accelerate your career growth.

About The Team

We’re seeking a Contracts & Legal Operations Manager to join Turo’s Legal Department. In this role, you’ll serve as a critical point of contact for many of Turo’s agreements, support contract management best practices through the contract lifecycle, and help support department-wide matters such as Master Service Agreements, SaaS Agreements, SOWs, purchase/insertion orders, and vendor management. The Contracts & Legal Operations Manager will drive initiatives supporting company and departmental objectives.

As a Contracts & Legal Operations Manager, you’ll partner with our Sr. Contracts & Legal Operations Manager and internal business partners to draft and support the execution of various agreements. You’ll also help create a world-class legal department that supports an innovative, globally scaling company. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, organized, resourceful, and detail-oriented. If you’re an astute and experienced contracts manager with strong business acumen, sound judgment, and a passion for driving results and process improvement—we’d love to hear from you!

This position reports to our Sr. Contracts & Legal Operations Manager and can be located on a hybrid basis in our Phoenix, Arizona or Toronto, Canada office, or remotely in Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle or a handful of other approved US-based remote locations.

What You Will Do

• Perform contract review and drafting for a wide variety of agreements, including MSAs, SaaS, SOWs, NDAs, and other related agreements;
• Understand Turo’s risk profile and ensure any contractual modifications align with Turo’s requirements;
• Conduct closing duties of contracts to ensure proper signature, internal distribution, and data point capture;
• Support Turo’s contract management system, LinkSquares, ensuring content data accuracy;
• Review contract redlines and turn the first round back to Sr. Contracts & Legal Operations Manager as required;
• Lead and improve upon a full range of contract lifecycle management activities, including tracking and executing amendments, renewals, and expirations; measuring and mitigating contract risk, and performing other post-execution deliverables;
• Maintain best practices for contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, self-service tools, and FAQs;
• Assist with continuous improvement efforts related to Turo’s contract management system and contract repository, including supporting workflow enhancements, automation, integration, and business intelligence;
• Conduct first-pass reviews of relevant agreements, ensuring appropriate contractual terms are in place with key vendors and coordinating process improvement initiatives as necessary;
• Conduct periodic company-wide and departmental training on contracting processes and initiatives in conjunction with the procurement team;
• Assist the Chief Legal Officer with budgets, obtaining purchase orders, creating requisitions, and liaising between the business owner and the procurement team.
  
  

Your Profile

• You are motivated, organized, and creative. You are patient, project calm under pressure, are respectful to your co-workers, and bring a positive attitude to the office;
• 5 years of relevant contracts management experience in roles of increasing responsibility;
• Undergraduate college degree;
• Experience and skill in reviewing, analyzing, drafting, redlining, explaining, and negotiating agreements;
• Highly detail-oriented, organized, proactive, efficient, and resourceful, with exceptional follow-through skills and a good sense of humor;
• Strong desire to learn the business and to function integrally as part of an interdisciplinary team;
• High EQ, impeccable professional ethics, integrity, judgment, and demonstrated ability to handle highly confidential information;
• Able to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive “can do” attitude, working collaboratively with other members of the Legal department and with internal business partners;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively counsel internal business partners by providing clear and concise advice and creative solutions to meet business needs;
• Certification from a professional contract management organization and experience with legal operations is a plus; and
• High proficiency in Google applications (including Gmail, Drive, Docs, and Sheets), Slack, Jira, LinkSquares, Hellosign/DocuSign preferred
  
  

The Dallas base salary range for this full-time position is $82,000-$100,000k equity benefits. Our base pay is determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation offered for this role during the hiring process. Please note that the base pay listed in this posting reflects the base pay only, and does not include bonus (if applicable), equity, or benefits.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
• Retirement employer match
• $2,000 Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
• $1,000 USD Turo host matching and $1,500 USD vehicle reimbursement program
• $100 USD Monthly Turo travel credit
• Cell phone, internet and Fringe benefit stipend
• Paid time off to relax and recharge
• Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
• For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have weekly in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities
• Annual Turbo Week (week-long, company-wide conference)
  
  

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us! Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable.

We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing PeopleOps@turo.com.

About Turo

Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.

Discover Turo at https://turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes.

Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad.