Treaty Oak Clean Energy
Treaty Oak Clean Energy
Treaty Oak Clean Energy develops and delivers solar power and battery storage solutions for municipalities, with a focus on rural communities and local economic impact. The company provides end-to-end clean energy expertise, helping public-sector partners pursue reliable, cost-effective power infrastructure through long-term collaboration. As a portfolio company of Macquarie Asset Management, Treaty Oak brings an investment-backed approach to projects designed to support communities over time.

Senior Manager, Contract Lifecycle and Legal Operations

Lead contract lifecycle management, legal operations, compliance, and outside counsel spend for Treaty Oak Clean Energy’s U.S. solar and storage platform. This full-time role is hybrid in Austin.

Description

  • Manage the full contract lifecycle from intake and review through approval, execution, storage, renewal, and closeout
  • Coordinate complex contract reviews by engaging stakeholders, consolidating feedback, resolving open issues, and guiding final documents to signature
  • Create, document, and refine Legal team workflows, service standards, intake processes, approval routes, and operating procedures
  • Administer contract lifecycle management and other legal technology platforms while improving their functionality and adoption
  • Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, playbooks, correspondence, policies, and centralized legal knowledge resources
  • Help ensure compliance with company policies and applicable requirements, assess contractual and process risks, and escalate concerns
  • Oversee outside counsel engagements and spending, including engagement letters, billing rules, invoice review, accruals, budgets, and reporting
  • Build dashboards and metrics covering contract volume, cycle times, renewals, obligations, legal spend, and other Legal team priorities
  • Deliver regular status updates to senior management
  • Collaborate with Development, Procurement, Finance, Operations, and other teams on contracting procedures
  • Lead efforts to standardize, automate, streamline, and implement improvements across legal and contracting processes

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, finance, operations, or a related discipline is required
  • At least seven years of progressively responsible experience in contract management, legal operations, commercial contracting, procurement, paralegal services, or a related area
  • Background supporting an in-house legal department or comparably complex organization
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage competing priorities
  • Comfort working with technology, metrics, and reporting
  • Experience in renewable energy, power, infrastructure, construction, project development, or another contract-intensive sector is preferred
  • Experience establishing or advancing legal operations processes within an in-house legal department is preferred
  • Experience implementing, administering, or improving a contract lifecycle management system or related legal technology is preferred
  • Working knowledge of commercial agreements and terms, including non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, task orders, consulting agreements, procurement agreements, and construction contracts is preferred
  • Experience managing legal budgets, accruals, invoice review, billing guidelines, and outside counsel spending is preferred
  • Experience creating dashboards, metrics, standardized templates, workflow automation, or document-management solutions is preferred
  • Paralegal certification, Certified Legal Manager credential, or another relevant professional certification is preferred

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Paid company holidays
  • Cell-phone stipend
  • 401(k) plan
  • Fully employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees

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