Sr. Contracts Manager

**Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
**The Opportunity**

Are you an experienced attorney or contracts manager with a passion for complex commercial transactions? If so, you will have the chance to work in a fast-paced environment with seasoned professionals, negotiating with both customers and partners to secure the best possible terms for Nutanix. This role offers the opportunity to learn, grow, and make a significant impact on the company's revenue producing contract process, while also providing the potential for long-term career advancement. Join our team and be a key player in shaping the future of our organization.

Team name**:Americas Commercial Legal Team**
- How big is the team? My team consists of 6 very dedicated people; the extended Commercial Team has 13 people spread globally. The entire legal team has 30+ employees.
- Recent awards: The legal team is consistently praised and valued for its work to help Nutanix achieve its objectives, and we are frequently recognized individually via the company's excellence reward program. What does your team like most: The team likes working in a collegial environment on deals and projects that have a significant impact on the company.

**Your Role**
- Analyze, draft, redline, and negotiate contracts with revenue impact to Nutanix, including licensing and services agreements with customers on the Fortune 500.
- Proactively resolve unique business and contractual issues and create recommendations using analysis, creativity, and the development of new approaches to enable sales to close deal.
- Provide support to maintain processes between legal department and other business units and collaborate to continuously improve the contracts review and administration process.
- Collaborate with internal business stakeholders and cross-functional teams during contract review and negotiation process acting as the main point of contact.
- Provide constant and clear communication to internal and external customers.

**What You Will Bring**
- 10 years of experience **negotiating and managing software licenses **, support, professional services, and channel agreements in a fast-paced and dynamic corporate environment required.
- Experience negotiating with **Fortune 500 customers.**
- Experience negotiating with customers in the financial services and healthcare sectors, preferred.
- Experience working for a public technology company is preferred.

- Bachelor’s Degree or above - JD Degree is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of the **laws of the United States **.
- Strong understanding of global privacy laws.
- Experience negotiating security terms and conditions, preferred.
- Strategic problem-solving skills with excellent legal and business judgment and the flexibility to take on a variety of tasks and challenges.
- Proven ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work and to drive projects to completion autonomously and as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills. The ability to communicate well with internal stakeholders, as well as with vendors.
- Experience with contracts life cycle management tools.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.

**About the Team**

Meet Kimberlee Madsen, Director, Commercial Contracts
- I have worked at Nutanix for ten years and have over 20 years of experience in the tech industry working at both small start-ups and large Fortune 100 companies.
- Leadership style/team culture: We are a very collaborative team, working closely with one another as well as cross-functionally with key stakeholders. We have built a reputation as the go-to team; a team that embraces innovation, new technology, and best practices business process to help Nutanix achieve great things. We work in a fast-paced environment that is client-focused.
- Describe how you work with your team**:Hybrid and remote.