This role will support a range of agreements, including NDAs with vendors, suppliers, customers, partners, and technical counterparties; engineering services agreements with EPCs, engineering firms, contractors, and consultants; LOIs and MOUs with suppliers, customers, and project partners; and vendor, procurement, and professional services agreements. We are looking for someone who understands how contracts work in the real world. The ideal candidate knows how unclear scope turns into cost exposure, how contractors make claims, how technical information needs to be protected, and how to keep negotiations moving without giving away important protections. Key
Responsibilities · Review contracts for risk, including scope, schedule, payment, confidentiality, IP, export controls, warranty, indemnity, liability, insurance, and dispute resolution. · Prepare clear comments, redlines, and recommended fallback positions. · Help business teams understand what contract terms mean in practice. · Support negotiations with vendors, contractors, suppliers, customers, and partners. · Work with outside counsel when needed, while handling routine contract issues directly where appropriate. · Track key contract obligations after signing, including deliverables, notices, change orders, invoice
requirements, warranty claims, subcontractor approvals, and termination rights. · Help improve Alva’s contracting process so routine agreements move faster and with fewer unnecessary legal costs. · Keep contract records organized and make sure risks and obligations are visible to the right people.
Qualifications · 10+ years of experience in contracts, procurement, subcontract management, commercial management, project delivery, construction, energy, infrastructure, industrial, nuclear, or related fields. · Experience negotiating and managing engineering, construction, procurement, supplier, or professional services agreements. · Strong understanding of scope control, change orders, claims avoidance, schedule impacts, liability caps, indemnity, insurance, warranty obligations, and dispute resolution. · Good judgment about what can be resolved commercially and what needs attorney review. · Ability to work effectively with engineers, project managers, procurement teams, finance, executives, and attorneys. · Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain contract risk in plain English. · Comfort working in a fast-moving company where the answer is not always obvious. · Experience in power, nuclear, EPC, energy infrastructure, industrial construction, or other technically complex project environments is strongly preferred. · PMP, procurement, supply chain, construction management, engineering, or related credentials are a plus.
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Salary
$160,000 - $210,000
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Experience
10+ years
Total raised
$33.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
W. Robb Stewart
CTO & Co-Founder
Garrett Wilkinson
Co-Founder
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.