Paralegal, Partnerships, Procurement and Corporate Governance

About Coalfire

Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.
We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.
Position Summary

As Coalfire 's Paralegal, Partnerships, Procurement, and Corporate Governance you will join the Legal & Compliance department and will be responsible for supporting the company's contract management, administration and negotiation process for partnership and procurement transactions, as well as providing corporate governance support. As a Paralegal you will assist in the defining and executing policy, templates, risk posture, negotiation guidelines, and processes related to contract administration, review and negotiation. In the paralegal role you will provide legal support to the teams dedicated to partnership and procurement contracts and will support the company's corporate governance functions, including entity management, board and committee processes, and corporate recordkeeping.

What You'll Do

- Primarily tasked with reviewing, drafting and assisting in the negotiation of contracts for Coalfire ’s partnership and procurement transactions in accordance with company guidelines

- Assist on Channel and Reseller Agreements, and vendor and procurement agreements, with other overflow responisbilites

- Review, draft and negotiate procurement and partnership related agreements including vendor and supplier agreements, purchase orders, software and SaaS subscription agreements, cloud services agreements, independent contractor and consulting agreements, referral and lead generation agreements, alliance and strategic partnership agreements, joint marketing and co-selling agreements, distribution agreements, and technology partner and integration agreements

- Partner with the procurement and partnership teams to ensure smooth and efficient contracting processes

- Provide legal support to the teams dedicated to partnership and procurement contracts

- Recommend negotiation strategies and techniques to internal business partners during the contract negotiation, administration and management processes

- Support the development, enhancement and execution of internal policies, guidelines, and exceptions in the contracting process

- Review contracts and related documents to assess risk to the company and recommend mitigation approaches

- Leverage AI-powered tools such as GC AI and Glean to accelerate contract review, drafting, and legal research while exercising appropriate professional judgment

- Help develop and improve the contracting process for subcontractors, including standardizing templates, workflows, and risk controls

- Support legal and compliance tasks/projects from time to time including updating various contract templates and other legal internal or external forms

- Monitor the legal inbox and triage incoming requests, routing matters to the appropriate team members and responding to routine inquiries

- Prioritize and execute multiple projects and tasks, meeting deadlines and effectively communicating with stakeholders

- Keep aware of current trends and best practices for addressing emerging contracting, legal and business risks

- Collaborate with legal team in developing concepts, techniques, standards and solutions to complex problems

- Exercise initiative, and work in an independent manner

- Support training to team and business colleagues on related process

- Support risk management and litigation initiatives as required

- Support corporate governanc