Contracts Paralegal

The Basics:

Tanium is seeking an experienced Contracts Paralegal to join our legal team in support of vendor contracts. The right person for this position will have experience drafting and negotiating legal, privacy and commercial terms in vendor contracts and will be comfortable assessing risks related to data privacy, data security and intellectual property. This role will report into the legal department but a law degree is not required. 

What you'll do:

• Review and negotiate vendor agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and DPAs, and assist with escalations in accordance with internal guidelines 
• Maintain templates and playbooks for use by the procurement team, and provide training as needed 
• Develop and maintain policies and practices for onboarding, overseeing and offboarding contingent workers (e.g., MSAs, pre-hire checks, training) 
• Advise procurement on policies and practices for engaging Employer of Record providers 
• Assist with termination of vendor contracts, including notices of breach and destruction of data requests 
• Serve as a liaison between Legal, IT, Risk Management and Procurement for vendor security reviews and maintenance of approved data sub-processors 

We're looking for someone with:  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• At least 4 years of relevant experience 
• At least 2 years' experience directly negotiating vendor contracts 
• Paralegal certificate 
• Exceptionally good oral and written communication skills
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as part of a tightly-knit team
• Careful attention to detail 

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry's only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune's list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That's the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it's imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you'll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $50,000 - $145,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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