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Contract Manager
Location: Denver, CO | Dallas, TX | Austin, TX | Charlotte, NC | Ashburn, VA | Boston, MA | New York, NY | Clifton, NJ | San Francisco, CA
Your Role
Digital Realty is seeking a Contract Manager to support contract management activities across North America. Reporting to the Contract Management NAM Leader, this role is part of the global Contract Management team within the Legal, Risk, Sustainability, and Compliance organization. The Contract Manager will lead and oversee the end-to-end contract lifecycle, drive operational excellence, ensure compliance with legal and corporate policies, and partner closely with Legal, Sales, Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders to support efficient deal execution. This role also plays a key role in process optimization, contract governance, knowledge management, reporting, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system enhancements.
What You'll Do

• Lead the review, execution, administration, and management of commercial agreements, including MSAs, Service Orders, amendments, novations, and other routine agreements.
• Ensure contracts comply with company policies, legal requirements, risk tolerance standards, and corporate governance expectations.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex or high-risk contractual matters and identify risks while recommending mitigation strategies.
• Maintain accurate contract records, documentation, data integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive business information.
• Support contract audits, contractual obligation tracking, reporting requirements, and compliance initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement of contract management processes, workflows, controls, automation efforts, and best practices.
• Generate dashboards, metrics, and reports that provide contract insights and support business decision-making.
• Act as the primary resource for contract-related and CLM-related questions, including template selection, contract hierarchy, system data validation, and access management.
• Collaborate with Legal, Sales, Finance, and Operations teams to support deal structuring, contract interpretation, and timely execution.
• Support strategic initiatives involving CLM optimization, AI-driven contract data enhancement, process transformation, scalability efforts, and team onboarding and training activities.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Legal Studies, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in contract management, legal operations, contract administration, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of contract law principles, commercial agreements, and contract lifecycle management practices.
• Experience managing high-volume workloads in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience identifying contractual risks and developing practical risk mitigation strategies.
• Proficiency with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms, preferably Conga.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams and partnering with Legal, Sales, Finance, and Operations stakeholders.
• Experience with contract negotiation, in-house legal team collaboration, or global/multi-regional organizations is preferred.
• Advanced degree (JD, MBA, or equivalent) and/or data center industry experience is a plus.

A Bit About Us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A Bit About Our Team
Legal
Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we're involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Training and Development
Join our team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away, with clear career pathways and continuous training to fuel your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital Realty; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals-they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners, and our customers.
We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Compensation Range
Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee's total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation Range: $120,000 - $150,000 annually
This compensation range represents the Company's good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.
Benefits: For this role, benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.