Corporate Counsel - Contracts

The Role

OKSI is seeking a hands-on Corporate Counsel - Contracts with a meaningful commercial-contracting foundation who wants to broaden their practice and grow through direct mentorship from the fractional General Counsel. You'll manage a recurring queue of NDAs/MNDAs and a steady flow of routine-to-moderately complex commercial and government-facing agreements and other day-to-day legal matters, applying OKSI's templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and risk tolerances with practical judgment and GC review as needed - and escalating novel, strategic, or unusually complex matters with a recommended position. This role reports administratively to the Manager, Regulatory Compliance and Contracts, works under the legal direction of the fractional General Counsel, and collaborates closely with the Contracts Administrator and teams across compliance, program management, procurement, finance, HR, engineering, and BD.

What You'll Do

· Draft, review, revise, and negotiate customer, vendor, and supplier agreements, services and consulting agreements, teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, SOWs, and amendments.

· Serve as the primary legal point of contact for NDAs/MNDAs - manage matters from intake through signature using approved forms and fallback positions.

· Manage assigned legal matters from intake through resolution, including reviewing and negotiating counterparty paper, reading the negotiation history, preserving accepted positions, and developing practical positions and fallbacks; maintain and improve templates, fallback language, and playbooks.

· Provide day-to-day legal support on routine corporate governance, employment questions, IP and data rights, data privacy, vendor disputes, internal policy, and proposal review.

· Identify terms outside OKSI's standard positions and escalate novel, strategic, or unusually complex matters to the fractional General Counsel with a clear explanation of the issue and a recommended position.

· Deliver accurate redlines and concise recommendations, checking the final text and comments before delivery. Use approved AI and other tools thoughtfully while personally verifying and taking responsibility for the work.

· Review routine government contracts, subcontracts, and flow downs, handling ordinary contract issues and identifying matters that require specialized government-contract or compliance review.