Headquartered in Waltham, Cambridge Computer is a leader in delivering innovative physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure, data storage, and data security solutions. We have a large and highly-skilled Technical Team, including Solution Architects and Technical Consultants, which support our Sales Team in designing and delivering hardware, software, and professional services solutions to our clients.
Our Model
Our Partners
We have an excellent industry reputation and great relationships with a vast number of IT product manufacturers and software/cloud providers. We use our extensive industry relationships with investors, entrepreneurs, technology visionaries, and manufacturers, along with the creativity and expertise of our Technical Teams, to identify and incorporate both new and existing paradigms into cohesive strategies for our clients.
Our Technical Teams specialize in a range of technologies; some of which are:
- Data Storage, Backup, Archiving, DR & Replication;
- BC/DR as a service & Cloud Storage;
- Threat assessment, Filtering & AV Solutions;
- Networking, including software-defined networking;
- Data Life-Cycle Management; and
- OpenStack, Hadoop, Lustre & GPFS.
Our Clients
We have clients in virtually every major industry in North America. Our clients include Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, academic institutions, and some of the hottest technology companies.
Description
In an atmosphere of fast-paced, high-value transactions, Cambridge’s legal team faces challenging legal and business strategy questions, often in one-off situations that are new to the company. While member of our team handles projects independently, our team huddles often to think deeply and creatively on Cambridge’s hardest challenges.
We chat daily with the legal and management teams of our vendors and clients, delicately balancing the need to maintain those crucial relationships with protecting Cambridge’s interests. We think on our feet to solve problems creatively, streamline processes, and develop opportunity. Our work combines long-term projects with multiple more immediate needs that arise unexpectedly, with the goal of enabling sales as our guide to balancing the two.
We seek an accomplished business paralegal/contracts manager to help our team with a variety of important legal and business matters. In this role, you would join our small, tightly-knit Business Relations team, who work within the legal/business space to protect the company from risk while enabling business deals. We work on a variety of projects, including:
- Reviewing business-to-business agreements, with vendors, clients, and other partners.
- Contract management and compliance.
- Reviewing, editing, and negotiating particular kinds of agreement, depending on experience, such as leases, event agreements, and NDAs.
- Developing knowledge of government and especially federal purchasing regulations, keeping the team informed, and implementing and overseeing guidelines.
- EEO/AAP administration.
- Project managing a team on requests for proposals or for bids (issued by government entities, colleges and universities, and Fortune 500 companies, among others), from initial review of bid to final response, usually in partnership with other companies.
Qualifications
- 4-year college degree.
- Relevant paralegal or contract management experience a big plus.
- Familiarity with business-to-business legal agreements, and ability to read, draft, and understand legal language easily.
- Experience reviewing and editing business-to-business agreements, preferably in the information technology industry is a particular plus.
- A strong grasp of the concepts contained in clauses such as limitation of liability, limited warranties, warranty disclaimers, indemnification, taxes, and confidentiality.
- Experience in negotiation, whether or not on legal documents.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with constant interruption, productive in stressful environments, and possessing strong time management skills.
- A resourceful, self-directed, and dependable individual who can not only field legal issues, but also handle complex business issues.
- Proven communication excellence with ability to provide clear, correct, and concise advice in a business context, and the ability to pay extremely close attention to the use of language and its effects.
- An inquiring mind with a problem-solving bent, balancing big-picture thinking with common sense.
- You like shutting out the world and focusing down on detailed work. You are hardworking, rigorous, diligent, and patient. When normal solutions are not available, you are quick to reexamine assumptions and consider other options.
- Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal and other matters and a positive attitude.
- Strong sense of integrity and appreciation for confidentiality issues.
- Comfortable around large dogs (we have an office pup).
- Currently authorized (or will soon be authorized) to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
How to Apply
Applicants must provide the following required materials:
Benefits
We recognize that satisfaction and well-being are integral components for long-term sustainability and business success. As such, available to full-time employees are the following benefits:
- Multiple health insurance options
- Medical FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) savings plan with employer matching
- Employer-sponsored long-term disability
- Paid holidays and PTO that increases with longevity at the company
- Discounted health club membership
- Convenient parking
- Opportunities for growth!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Cambridge Computer provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, military service, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.