Senior Contracts Manager at Supabase

About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, created by developers for developers. The platform offers a complete backend solution that includes Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and built to scale with growth.

About the Role

Supabase is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to take ownership of vendor contracting. This person will be the primary contracts partner for everything the company purchases. It is a hands-on, high autonomy role with real ownership, suited to an experienced negotiator who takes pride in making procurement faster while managing risk. The role involves negotiating directly, building the playbooks and workflows that let the business self-serve on low risk deals, and escalating the right issues to Legal at the right time. The team works AI-first in Legal, using Claude and Ironclad daily to move faster and with greater accuracy. This work will shape how procurement and vendor contracting scale as Supabase grows.

What You Will Do

Own vendor contracting end to end

• Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of vendor agreements, including MSAs, order forms, SOWs, SaaS and cloud subscription terms, DPAs, and NDAs.
• Serve as the single point of contact for all vendor contracting matters raised by FinOps, IT, Security, and business owners, from intake through signature, renewals, amendments, disputes, and offboarding. As capacity allows, also support the broader Commercial Legal team on other matters.
• Apply and further build out the playbook and risk framework independently, and escalate to the Assistant General Counsel, Commercial where a deal falls outside approved positions or raises novel legal risk.
• Negotiate data, privacy, and security terms (DPAs, security exhibits, cross-border transfers) within the Security team's playbook, and bring in the AGC, Commercial or Privacy for anything outside it.
• Review AI vendor terms, such as training on company data, output ownership, and model changes.

Build and scale vendor contracting operations

• Build out and maintain the vendor playbook in Claude, so the whole team works from the same guidance and low risk deals move without bottlenecks.
• Design and improve intake, triage, and approval workflows with FinOps.
• Own the vendor and procurement workflow in Ironclad, including intake, templates, approvals, and the repository, working with Legal Ops, who own the platform. Use it to track renewals and notice windows with FinOps and flag spend concentration risks.
• Create training and self-serve resources for business partners, and raise the visibility of the contracts function as a business enabler.

What We Are Looking For

Required

• 6 to 8+ years of experience negotiating procurement, vendor, or technology transactions contracting, ideally buy side at a U.S. SaaS or technology company, with deep knowledge of SaaS, cloud, and software licensing terms.
• A track record of negotiating directly with vendors and their counsel, independently and at pace.
• Strong working knowledge of privacy, data protection, and security terms in commercial contracts, including DPA negotiation and international data transfers.
• Experience designing contracting processes that are consistent, transparent, and easy for the business to follow.
• Clear writing and speaking, with the ability to explain legal and commercial risk plainly and the judgment to know when to hold a position, approve a reasonable risk, or escalate.
• Comfort using AI tools, Claude in particular, with sound judgment about when to rely on outputs, how to verify them, and how to protect confidential information.

Preferred

• A degree in a relevant field (for example, law, economics, or political science), though experience is valued over the specific degree.
• Sell side experience negotiating customer, partner, or reseller agreements for a SaaS or technology company, which helps in seeing vendor terms from the other side.
• Hands on experience with Ironclad or a similar CLM tool (Juro, Docusign CLM) or building AI assisted legal workflows, ideally with some exposure to AI governance.
• Experience working across jurisdictions or with distributed, international teams.
• Experience at a fast growing, developer focused, cloud, security, or open source company.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: Supabase hires globally and believes you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but the company provides a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
• ESOP: Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company, so everyone shares in the upside of what is being built together.
• Tech Allowance: A budget to set up an ideal work environment, including laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.
• Flexible Work: The company operates asynchronously and trusts you to manage your own time.
• Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning, including courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born remote and open source first. The globally distributed team is considered the secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised, including a $500M Series F
• 540,000+ community members

The team moves fast, builds in public, and uses what it ships. Supabase believes deeply in the open source ecosystem and strives to support, not replace, existing tools and communities.