Contract Specialist

This person will be responsible for reviewing our client's partner funding requests for Deal Acceleration Funds (DAF) and Partner Services Funds (PSF) for their customers. DAF and PSF requests are for partner professional services for our client's customer workshops, proofs of concept, pilots, and implementations. SOW's are technical in nature and focused primarily on Google Cloud.

• Working EST Time Zone is required*

Responsibilities:

• Review partner Statements of Work (SOW's) and validate alignment within our client's core business requirements.
• Document findings and recommendations which will be shared with Google manager.
• Provide comments and guidance for partners and our client's sales teams in Google Docs.
• Recommend updates to Statements of Work to ensure alignment with internal policies.
• Meet with partners and our client's sales teams as needed to address and help resolve identified issues in partner SOW's.
• Additional responsibilities will include drafting our client's authored SOW templates as well as reviewing and updating existing authored SOW templates.
• This role will include direct interaction with partners in sales and partner facing roles as well as with other stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills/Qualifications:

• Candidate should have a BA/BS degree with at least 3-7 years of experience in Professional Services for a services provider involved in public cloud adoption for Google Cloud, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
• Candidate must have prior experience scoping and authoring SOW's for technical services in the public cloud industry.
• Candidate's experience should include authoring, editing, and negotiating content for professional services agreements. Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills with the English language.

Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Desirable experience includes roles that involved negotiating terms and conditions for professional services contracts
• Any prior experience specifically with Google Cloud related professional services.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision offered
• Company paid short-term disability, long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan offered
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• 9 Paid U.S. holidays
• Referral program

Why Affirma?

• One of Washington's Fastest Growing Private Companies & Top 100 Best Companies to Work For (According to Seattle Business Magazine and Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Casual environment, surrounded by incredibly intelligent and motivated co-workers, and a performance-driven culture
• Flexible Schedule
• Opportunity for growth

Affirma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not make employment decisions or otherwise discriminates based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.