Corporate Counsel – Contracts
The Role
OKSI is seeking a hands-on Corporate Counsel – Contracts to provide day-to-day legal support for our contracts and broader business operations. You'll own a recurring queue of NDAs/MNDAs and a steady flow of routine-to-moderately complex commercial and government-facing agreements and other day-to-day legal matters, applying OKSI's templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and risk tolerances with independent judgment — and escalating novel, strategic, or unusually complex matters to the fractional General Counsel with a recommended position. This role reports administratively to the Manager, Regulatory Compliance and Contracts, works under the legal direction of the fractional General Counsel, and collaborates closely with the Contracts Administrator and teams across compliance, program management, procurement, finance, HR, engineering, and BD.
What You'll Do
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate customer, vendor, and supplier agreements, services and consulting agreements, teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, SOWs, and amendments
- Serve as the primary legal point of contact for NDAs/MNDAs — manage matters from intake through signature using approved forms and fallback positions
- Manage assigned legal matters from intake through resolution, including reviewing and negotiating counterparty paper and developing practical positions and fallbacks; maintain and improve templates, fallback language, and playbooks
- Provide day-to-day legal support on routine corporate governance, employment questions, IP and data rights, data privacy, vendor disputes, internal policy, and proposal review
- Identify terms outside OKSI's standard positions and escalate novel, strategic, or unusually complex matters to the fractional General Counsel with a clear explanation of the issue and a recommended position
- Review routine government contracts, subcontracts, and flowdowns, handling ordinary contract issues and identifying matters that require specialized government-contract or compliance review