Senior Contracts Manager
Fastly · San Francisco, CA · $105.7k–$126.9k
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Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
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Posting Open Date: 09/15/2026
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 11/04/2026
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Contracts Manager
Fastly is looking for an experienced, detail-oriented and organized Senior Contracts Manager to help scale its Contracts Management function. In this role, you will drive the negotiation, interpretation and contract lifecycle management of complex revenue and procurement transactions that directly empower the company’s growth. You will also act as a strategic orchestrator for optimizing our lead-to-cash and other commercial contracting workflows within our Commercial Legal team. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will leverage finely tuned business judgment to balance rapid execution with risk mitigation, serving as a trusted partner to our GTM and Procurement teams. This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Director of Contracts Management, with room to grow within the Contracts Management organization.
What You'll Do
- Scale High-Stakes Commercial Negotiation Deal Cycles : Manage multiple fast-paced and high-stakes commercial deal cycles with meticulous accuracy. You will act as the primary contracts management negotiator for Fastly’s most complex commercial agreements, balancing the speed required by GTM with the precision of a detail-oriented and risk-aware legal professional. You will utilize developed negotiating strategy skills to drive successful contractual negotiations, revising and drafting negotiated legal agreements on Fastly forms following playbook guidance with limited supervision.
- Execute and Coordinate Transactions : Project manage various transactions, coordinating across all internal stakeholders and counterparties. You will apply robust experience in managing commercial contracts with the ability to identify and resolve cross-functional contract issues with minimal supervision or direction.
- Support the Sales Cycle : Demonstrate the versatile flexibility required to service a demanding sales organization during high-volume, critical time constraints at month-end and quarter-end close cycles.
- Champion Contracting Technology and AI-Enabled Contracts Management: Leverage AI and other advanced legal technology tools to streamline contract review, redlining and negotiation. Develop and optimize AI-enabl
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