Commercial Contracts Manager

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you’re not just executing tasks; you’re solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.

Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum.

The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

Relativity Space’s Legal team is nimble and entrepreneurial, filled with collaborative team players with deep domain expertise dedicated to each other’s and the company’s success. The team sits at the epicenter of business activities and decision-making and is responsible for identifying and managing risks across the organization to ensure Relativity is adequately protected through its rapid growth. Team members manage the full suite of legal and regulatory issues, including intellectual property, employment, licensing, procurement, government contracting, vendor and customer contracts, trade compliance, corporate transactions, and governance, among other business-enabling responsibilities.

Unique to Relativity’s fast-paced, high-growth environment, the team works across many departments to support Relativity’s ambitious goals. Additionally, the company is in a formative phase, with enough structure to build from and still plenty of room for you to define what’s next. If you want to be on the front lines of a rapidly evolving commercial space industry, Relativity is the place for you.

About the Role:

• Review, prepare, negotiate, and coordinate the execution of operational contracts from beginning to end, including drafting, redlining, negotiating terms and conditions, collaborating with various teams and obtaining internal approvals, tracking and reporting, and electronic document storage.
• Manage various contract types for vendor procurement, such as services agreements, purchase agreements, manufacturing contracts, consultant agreements, engagement letters, statements of work, amendments, and order forms.
• Review vendor forms/edits and determine whether proposed terms are acceptable, or if changes need to be made (on a case-by-case basis) in consultation with legal counsel.
• Continue to refine and improve process for Legal team review of buy-side commercial contracts, including triggers for review, requirements and considerations for review, steps for review and negotiation internally and externally, and approval process.
• Develop, implement, and improve playbooks, contract templates, knowledge libraries, and processes to improve efficiency in Relativity’s contracting function, in collaboration with various stakeholders both within and outside the legal team.
• Work collaboratively with the legal team and business stakeholders to identify vendor and/or contractual risks, and develop strategies to monitor and mitigate such risks.
• Respond to inquiries regarding terms in existing contracts and assist stakeholders in understanding contract provisions and managing vendor contract life cycles.
• Partner and collaborate with internal stakeholders throughout the organization regarding contractual matters, ensuring compliance by such stakeholders with the contract process.
• Analyze or coordinate analysis of price proposals, financial reports, and other data…