Legal & Contracts Specialist - 100 Remote (Pakistan)

What is the role?

dotCMS is a visual, headless CMS built for compliance-led enterprises that need to manage and scale digital content across brands, regions, and channels. 

We are looking for a hands-on, business-oriented Legal Manager to support dotCMS's commercial operations and broader legal needs. This role will play a key part in streamlining contract processes, supporting customer negotiations, and helping our Revenue and Customer Experience teams move deals and renewals forward efficiently. The ideal candidate combines strong commercial contract expertise with practical business judgment, balancing legal risk with the need to operate quickly in a growing B2B SaaS company. This is an individual contributor role with significant cross-functional exposure and ownership.

We're proud to be 100% remote! You can work from anywhere with availability during standard U.S. business hours (unless otherwise specified). This is a contractor position. Please note that we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

What is dotCMS?

Founded in 2003, dotCMS is the most secure, trusted, and scalable  content management system built for compliance-led industries.  Built on leading Java technology, dotCMS is a visual, headless content management system that gives developers the flexibility of a headless infrastructure while equipping marketers with no-code visual content authoring. Whether you're managing 10 or 1,000+ sites, dotCMS brings flexibility, security, and efficiency to enterprise content operations. Some of our notable customers include Telus, BNP Paribas, Worldline, Estes, ARC Health, Royal Bank of Canada, Southern Phone, and Junior Achievement.

Who are we, really?

At “the dot,” you’ll find a diverse team of authentic individuals who share the goal of building the most agile, scalable, and secure content management system, delighting customers, and having a lot of fun doing it. Our mission is to make content work for everyone by simplifying content creation and delivery to drive collaboration & engagement.

We are accountable, collaborative team players who take ownership and deliver excellence. As doers, we are driven by dedication and a strong work ethic. We are passionately dedicated, innovative, curious, and transparent, while remaining humble. Above all, we are customer-obsessed, focused on exceeding expectations with empathy and solutions-oriented thinking.

What you’ll bring to the team

Commercial Contracts & Negotiations

• Draft, review, and negotiate customer agreements, including MSAs, SaaS subscription agreements, renewals, amendments, NDAs, and other commercial contracts.
• Partner with Revenue and Customer Experience teams to resolve contractual issues and support timely deal execution.
• Review customer-requested redlines, identify material risks, and recommend practical solutions that protect the company's interests.
• Support complex negotiations, including liability, indemnification, termination, data protection, and other key contractual provisions. 
• Ensure consistency with company contracting standards while maintaining flexibility to address legitimate business needs.

Renewal & Revenue Operations Support

• Provide legal support throughout the customer renewal process, particularly when agreements require amendments, renegotiation, or additional legal review.
• Partner with TAMs, Client Partners, and the Renewal Manager to address contractual blockers and keep renewals moving forward.
• Establish clear guidelines for standard versus nonstandard contractual terms, reducing unnecessary escalations.
• Support the development and maintenance of standardized templates, clauses, and negotiation playbooks.

Corporate Legal & Compliance Support

• Review and advise on vendor agreements, partnership agreements, and other business contracts as needed.
• Support legal and contractual compliance requirements relevant to the company's operations.
• Collaborate with Security and other internal stakeholders on data privacy, security, and contractual compliance matters.
• Coordinate with external legal counsel when specialized expertise or jurisdiction-specific advice is required.
• Identify emerging legal risks and recommend proportionate, business-oriented mitigation strategies.

Why we get excited about you

• 3+ years of relevant experience in commercial contracts, preferably within B2B SaaS, technology, or software companies.
• Law degree or equivalent legal qualification, with the ability to provide legal advice within the scope of applicable professional requirements.
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs, and related commercial contracts.
• Solid understanding of commercial contracting risks, including liability, indemnification, intellectual property, data protection, and termination provisions.
• Experience working directly with Sales, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, or executive leadership.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly.
• Comfortable working independently, managing competing priorities, and operating in a fast-paced, lean environment.
• Practical, solutions-oriented judgment with a strong understanding of business priorities.

Why should you join?

If you have a great experience but are tired of being a cog in a giant corporate wheel, this job is for you. It’s a chance to create a new product marketing function at an established, growing company with a mature product in use by major global organizations. Everything you do everyday, will make a huge impact on our company. Your work will be seen, felt and recognized and your past experience valued. 

Your Compensation. We offer competitive compensation that allows you to make a great living for yourself and your loved ones. 

Your Team. We are a humble, competitive, and small vendor making waves in our industry, and you will be part of a team that has your back. You never walk alone! We are a diverse and distributed team, and we offer annual company-paid training and development to our team members.

Your Voice. Your voice matters to all of us, and we appreciate your opinion as we scale our company to the next level in an open and transparent environment. We will periodically update the entire team on business performance and strategic initiatives and offer the stage for an entrepreneurial-minded professional to produce key initiatives that help to move the needle.

Your Time. We value you as an individual, team member, and professional. We can only expect you to deliver high performance within the right amount of You-time. Therefore, you will have access to an Open PTO policy (after the first 90 days in the company) and a generous number of local company-paid holidays.

dotCMS is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.