Contract Administrator / Paralegal

About the role

The Contract Administrator/Paralegal will join Business Wire’s Legal Team to manage the full contract lifecycle, support negotiations, and ensure compliance across sales, procurement and content licensing agreements. This role acts as a key operational partner, maintaining the contract management system and collaborating with multiple business functions.

Key responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate and edit sales, procurement and licensing agreements.
• Serve as system administrator for the Legal Team’s CLM platform (DocuSign IAM), supporting implementation, enhancements and optimization.
• Maintain contract templates, playbooks and compliance programs.
• Partner with Sales, Finance, IT and Security to automate contract processes and manage the Legal Sales database.
• Assist with third‑party questionnaires, data‑privacy requests, SOC 2 and other compliance activities.
• Support corporate governance tasks such as entity management, filings and policy administration.

Required profile

• Minimum three years of experience in contract administration, legal operations or related paralegal work.
• Comfortable working with commercial agreements across sales, procurement and content licensing.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross‑functional teams (Sales, Finance, IT, Security).

Required skills

• Hands‑on experience administering DocuSign IAM (or similar CLM platform).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience designing or improving legal workflows and automations.
• Familiarity with privacy operations (DSARs) and compliance programs such as SOC 2.