Contract Paralegal

Overview

This part-time paralegal role provides ongoing, non-caseload support to the legal team. Work will focus on transactional and legal operations tasks such as contract templates, playbooks, and NDA/MSA document review—rather than litigation.

• Employment type: Part-time contractor (fixed monthly rate)
• Estimated workload: ~20 hours per week on average (variable week to week)
• Location: US, remote (Idaho a plus)
• Reporting to: Director of Legal

Responsibilities

• Review and update contract templates to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with current legal and business requirements.
• Create and maintain playbooks documenting negotiation and review approaches for common contract types and clauses, including tracking commercial decisions from leadership.
• Review incoming NDAs, MSAs, and other client/prospective partner legal documents; run redline comparisons between versions and flag deviations from standard positions.
• Clean up and organize internal legal files and folders to keep documents easy to locate and maintain clear version control.
• Review and help update internal policies, ensuring they remain current and consistently formatted.
• Handle related ad hoc legal-administrative requests as they arise.

Requirements

• 3+ years of paralegal experience, ideally in a corporate/in-house or transactional setting rather than litigation.
• Prior experience working at or with a B2B SaaS/technology company, with comfort operating in a fast-moving, cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience reviewing and redlining NDAs and other commercial contracts.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to build and maintain templates, playbooks, and a clean filing system.
• Clear, precise written communication and careful attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, manage a variable workload, and reliably complete requests without daily oversight.
• Proactive, cross-functional working style: partner with sales and tech and proactively reach out when issues arise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Availability to occasionally help with time-sensitive matters from an Australian office (nice-to-have, not required).
• Professional experience using AI tools efficiently in daily workflow (e.g., Claude) to speed up drafting, review, and research.
• Very strong contract and document-management tool experience (e.g., Word/Google Docs redlining, shared drives, DocuSign).
• Paralegal certificate or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with large industrial customers.

Compensation & Benefits

• Fixed monthly rate: $2,500–$4,000/month (regardless of hours worked)
• Compensation level depends on experience and profile and is intended to cover availability and delivery across the responsibilities above.

Location

• US, remote; Idaho a plus

Application Instructions

Include a short example of a time you stepped in to support an in-house attorney or team in a small, fast-moving tech environment—describe the situation and how you helped. A cover letter is optional.