Senior Legal Contracts Specialist

Lifted is the first talent, country, and contract-agnostic contingent workforce management solution, giving enterprises a unified way to source, contract, manage, and pay any type of contingent talent, anywhere in the world. Today, contingent work runs through fragmented systems and providers, creating inefficiency, compliance risks, and limited visibility. We’re here to change that. By combining technology and global services into one seamless solution, we help enterprises hire faster, operate with confidence, and gain live visibility across all external talent. 

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As a Sr Legal Contracts Specialist, you’ll play a key role in Lifted day-to-day operations, handling a high volume of contracts and legal requests. You’ll review redline, and route agreements within frameworks approved by Upwork Inc. Legal. You’ll act as the first line of legal support for standard agreements, helping move deals quickly and consistently, and ensuring seamless coordination with the Upwork Inc. Legal team for escalations. This is a hands-on, fast-paced role for someone who values accuracy, efficiency, and scalable processes.

Your Responsibilities

• Review, redline, and process NDAs, client and vendor agreements, and marketing content/copy within pre-approved frameworks and playbooks.

• Serve as the first-tier contact for legal requests from internal teams, managing intake and triage of high-volume workflows.

• Escalate items outside approved frameworks to Upwork Inc. Legal with relevant summaries and context to enable faster review.

• Partner closely with Upwork Inc. Legal to help maintain and improve contract playbooks, templates, and operational processes.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal functions to ensure timely contract execution.

• Maintain and continuously update clause & content libraries, templates, and other pre-approved content.

• Support tracking and reporting of key LegalOps metrics such as contract volume, turnaround time, and escalation trends.

• Contribute to legal enablement initiatives, including FAQs, internal guidance, and training documentation.

• Identify and recommend process improvements that enhance efficiency and consistency across the legal workflow.

What It Takes to Catch Our Eye

• 3+ years of experience as a paralegal, contracts administrator, or legal operations professional.

• Proven experience managing a high volume of contracts or legal tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrated experience in staffing, EOR, or contingent workforce environments

• Strong redlining and drafting skills, with comfort applying templates and playbooks.

• Excellent organizational skills and high attention to detail under tight timelines.

• Clear and concise communication skills; able to summarize complex issues for non-legal stakeholders.

• Comfortable managing multiple requests simultaneously and knowing when to escalate.

• Familiarity with contract management or workflow tools (Ironclad).

• Experience working directly with sales & operational teams.

• Experience in staffing, EOR, or professional services organizations preferred.

How You’ll Stand Out

• Experience supporting framework- or playbook-based legal operations.

• Strong documentation habits and process improvement mindset.

• Enthusiasm for automation, scalability, and continuous improvement in legal workflows.

• Calm, resourceful, and precise—even when volume spikes and timelines tighten.

Lift Your Career. Shape the Future of Work.

Our Mission: Unify contingent work. Elevate how it gets done. This isn’t just a promise to clients, it’s how we work at Lifted. Every feature we build, every client interaction we have, and every team decision we make is a chance to reduce fragmentation and set a new standard for efficiency, quality, and impact. We’re not just building technology, we’re building the new standard for how enterprise companies engage talent.

This is the right place for you if you are motivated by ambitious goals, ready to do what it takes to win, boldly curious in asking questions and exploring better ways forward, and dedicated to following through on your commitments. You’ll thrive here if you raise the bar for yourself and others, collaborate across teams, and help others succeed so we can achieve our shared mission.

This may not be the right place for you if you’re uncomfortable with constructive feedback, prefer rigid structure, shy away from high expectations and accountability, or find it difficult to adapt in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

We operate with the agility of a startup and the impact of a global enterprise. Our values — trust, innovation, curiosity, excellence, and ownership — guide how we work and fuel the culture we’re building together. And while our mission is big, growth here is both company-wide and personal, creating opportunities to learn fast, take ownership, and build a career that helps shape the future of work.

We’re proud to offer benefits that go beyond the basics, including comprehensive medical coverage for you and your family, unlimited PTO, a 401(k) plan with matching, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. 

Lifted is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that a criminal background check may be required once a conditional job offer is made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with applicable law, including the California Fair Chance Act and local Fair Chance ordinances.