Principal 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: Build and lead a brand new contract management function, including function and organizational planning Lead management of all contracting processes and systems, including: Continue to refine and improve contract administration and workflow processes for review of buy-side commercial contracts to drive faster time-to-close, including triggers for review, requirements and considerations for review, steps for review and negotiation internally and externally, and approval process Improve tracking and reporting of data and metrics, build process improvements, and implement new contract management and AI tools to drive contracting efficiency Drive communication strategy to improve adoption of all contract systems Maintain various contract templates for vendor procurement, such as services agreements, purchase agreements, manufacturing contracts, consultant agreements, engagement letters, statements of work, amendments, and order forms Manage and improve contract negotiation and vendor management processes in partnership with supply chain leadership to facilitate rapid scaling, including: Develop, implement, and improve negotiation playbooks and corporate negotiation standards and knowledge libraries Develop and perform contract negotiation and vendor management training program for business stakeholders Identify vendor and/or contractual risks in collaboration with engineering and business teams, and develop strategies to monitor and mitigate such risks Lead key cross-functional strategic initiatives involving commercial transactions such as tariffs and othe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)