СШАContracts Manager
1 мес. назад
120k–150k USD / годСШАHybrid
contractscompliancefederal acquisition regulationcontract management
Manage and ensure compliance of contracts and legal obligations for a federal software company serving government agencies.
Обязанности
- Federal software companies run on contracts, and most manage compliance through a mix of inboxes, spreadsheets, and hope. Kaizen holds work across civilian agencies and DoD: FAR-based, subcontracts, IDIQ vehicles, BPAs, DoW agreements. Training deadlines, labor postings, OCI requirements, VETS filings - this role builds the function that keeps all of it current. It's the first contracts hire at Kaizen, reporting to the Head of Business Operations & Corporate Affairs and working daily with IT, security, the FSO, and the deployment team.
- The BD team brings you deals in progress. You advise on structure, flag compliance risks, help with pricing justification, and get it to signature. Turnaround is hours, not days. If a standard teaming agreement takes you a week, this isn't the right seat. You work with outside counsel on interpretation when needed, but the turnaround is yours to own.
- Build and own the obligation register across every federal agreement, keeping it current through mods and change orders
- Run the compliance calendar: training certificates back to the AOR, required notices and postings, annual filings including VETS-4212A
- Make applicability calls on thresholds, commercial-item carve-outs, and what actually applies at our size
- Administer federal portals: SAM reps and certs, PIEE and WAWF for invoicing
- Review flowdowns on new subcontracts and agreements before signature and flag what we'd be taking on
- Onboard new subcontractors: program context, systems access, security requirements, and operating expectations; hold them to committed scope, timelines, and deliverables
- Route execution to People Ops, IT, and security and hold the map of who owns what
- Serve as the primary interface with government COs and AOs on active contracts
- Support BD and capture teams with contract strategy, pricing input, and T&C risk assessment on proposals
- Manage clause interpretation with outside counsel
Требования
- 5+ years of federal contracts or subcontracts administration on the contractor side, where the follow-through was yours
- FAR and DFARS fluency, including flowdown matrices and applicability thresholds
- You've built a compliance register or calendar, not just worked from one someone else built
- DoD contract experience, including FAR-based awards or other transaction agreements
- GSA Schedule administration: catalog maintenance, pricing justifications, BPA setup and updates, SIN and SKU modifications, option year reporting, and price reduction clause compliance
- Direct submissions into federal systems: SAM, PIEE or WAWF
- Comfortable on a small team with no department behind you, able to assign your own week
- Experience managing subcontractors or teaming partners against committed scope, milestones, and deliverables, including escalating when they slip
- Negotiation experience on federal contracts, not just post-award administration
- Familiar with data rights and IP provisions in federal software contracts
- Eligible to work with CUI
Условия
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.
- Unlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)
- Closed for all federal holidays.
- Company-wide winter break the week of Christmas.
- Company offsites throughout the year.
Другое
- Government technology has failed citizens, public servants, and service members for decades.
- Kaizen powers America’s application layer. We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses for counter-drone procurement to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks and months, not years.
- This year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.
- Founded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.
- Primed on subcontracts with flowdown obligations
- Managed relationships with major defense prime subcontractors
- Managed subcontractors delivering software, data, or AI capabilities
- Hold an NCMA certification
- Carry an active or recently lapsed clearance
- Your contracts background is commercial. The federal compliance context here is the whole job.
- You want to write policy rather than close obligations.
- You need a system to step into. There isn't one yet.
- You want the security and technical compliance work. That lives on a different team.
- The agencies Kaizen serves run essential public services. The obligations matter.
- If you want to build the compliance infrastructure behind software that reaches tens of millions of Americans, reach out!
- 100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam — all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.
- $100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- One Medical membership, on us — same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.
- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- 401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.
- Up to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.
- $50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).
- Expensed lunch while in the office.
- Company-provided laptop of your choice.
- Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse — right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). A $225/month value, on us. For remote employees, $100/month dedicated to gym or physical fitness reimbursement.
- $100/month utility stipend.
- $500/year professional development.
- $250/year recreation.
- $300/quarter pet care stipend.