A lawyer who sits between legal practice and software delivery — owning the legal logic across the whole contracting journey and validating that the product actually reflects it.

This is neither a traditional contract-manager role nor a pure Business Analyst role. It is a hybrid position requiring deep legal contracting expertise combined with hands-on software delivery and validation skills.

Key Responsibilities: 

The role encompasses 20 detailed responsibility areas, clustered into five core pillars:

Process and Configuration Design: 

• Map the end-to-end contract lifecycle (intake → matter → drafting/negotiation → approvals/DoA → e-signature → activation → extraction → obligations → amendments → renewal/termination → reporting)

• Design intake forms and matter initiation processes

• Configure pre-signature workflows and post-signature contract setup

• Define key commercial terms, dates, term, and renewal logic

• Manage amendments and contract linking
  

• Develop risk playbooks and conduct missing-clause analysis

• Create obligation extraction rules (obligor / action / timing / evidence)

• Draft realistic test agreements across various contract types, including:

  • SLAs

  • Leases

  • Loans

  • NDAs

  • Supply contracts

• Test AI outputs for:

  • Summarisation

  • Clause and field extraction

  • FAQs

  • Document comparison

  • Conversational assistant responses

• Feed legal corrections back into the product as formal requirements

• Perform expert User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Conduct regression testing

• Reproduce defects and perform root-cause triage (defect vs. AI vs. configuration vs. data vs. user error)

• Validate releases and upgrades

• Deliver product demos and training sessions

• Drive client adoption

• Build and maintain reporting dashboards

• Perform heavy Excel-based data migration, classification, and data-quality work across thousands of records

Requirements: 

• Education: LL.B or equivalent legal / paralegal qualification

• Experience:

  • Substantial commercial contracting experience

  • Hands-on legal-tech / CLM / matter-management exposure

  • Real UAT and defect work experience

• Technical Skills:

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Admitted attorney

• AI / NLP and clause-extraction experience

• Enterprise CLM configuration experience

• Agile delivery experience

• Contract migration experience

• FICA / KYC / POPIA compliance exposure