Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist

• CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators
• border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly
• stay ahead of evolving threats.
• CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel
• Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle
• London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com .
• Role Overview:
• We're looking for a Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist to join our Legal team as we build out the function from the ground up. Reporting to the Head of Legal Operations, you'll be a hybrid player. Hands-on with contract review, negotiation
• also helping design and run the systems and processes that let Legal scale as CHAOS grows across its business units.
• This is a foundational hire. You'll help shape how contracts move through our organization — from intake through execution — at a company that's actively building its legal infrastructure rather than inheriting one already in place. Expect genuine range: reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements one day, refining intake workflows or outside counsel reporting the next

Responsibilities

• Contracts
• Review vendor/commercial contracts and NDAs, drafting and negotiating directly with counterparties and escalating novel or high-risk issues to counsel
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, applying standard playbook positions and knowing when a deviation needs legal sign-off
• Triage inbound NDA and contract requests, distinguishing standard-template turnarounds from redline/negotiation-track requests
• Manage the Docusign environment: envelope creation, template management, user permissions, and signature tracking
• Coordinate and chase signatures across the organization; track all documents pending execution and follow up proactively with signatories
• Flag structural or drafting issues in incoming paper (e.g., mismatched headers and substance, one-sided terms dressed as mutual) before they reach counsel review
• Maintain and continuously improve our contract template library and standard playbook positions
• Legal Operations
• Build and maintain automated workflows in CLM, covering intake, routing, approvals, and status tracking for NDAs and commercial contracts
• Support the Legal intake system: triage requests, route to the right owner, help refine request types and instructions as volume grows
• Maintain the Legal team's document repository and naming/version-control conventions
• Track and report on legal operations metrics: request volume, turnaround times, and outside counsel spend
• Support outside counsel and vendor management: tracking billing against budget in coordination with finance, assisting with invoice review
• Assist with building out onboarding materials, playbooks, and process documentation for the Legal function as it scales
• Identify opportunities to use AI-native tools to speed up contract review, intake triage, and reporting
• Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree and/or paralegal certificate
• 4+ years of experience in contracts management, legal operations, or a similar operational/legal support role in a technology, aerospace/defense, or similarly regulated environment
• Demonstrated experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating vendor contracts and NDAs independently, with good judgment on when to escalate to counsel
• Hands-on experience building or administering workflows in a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform; e-signature and e-billing tooling experience preferred
• Systems experience beyond CLM — ticketing/intake systems, document management platforms, or productivity suites
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to manage projects and drive cross-functional initiatives
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and written/verbal communication — comfortable building structure where none exists and interfacing directly with stakeholders and counterparties
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership; high discretion handling confidential and commercially sensitive information
• Preferred Requirements:
• Experience with export compliance, ITAR, or government contracts environments
• Experience at a high-growth or technology company preferred
• Why CHAOS?
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits : 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more
• Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual dress code
• Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices
• The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity
• benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.
• Recruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or compensated.
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