Senior Paralegal

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.

We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.

• Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

• PhD Science is a hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.

Where We’re Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

Reporting to Senior Managing Counsel on the Great Minds Legal Team, the Senior Paralegal will manage the contract lifecycle end-to-end and coordinate communications directly with internal business clients and external customers, suppliers, vendors, and contractors, with authority to negotiate agreement terms, assess legal risk, and advise stakeholders on contract strategy. The Senior Paralegal operates with significant autonomy and owns the substantive content and risk posture of each contract, working directly with Sales, Product, Technology, Digital, and Finance stakeholders. The Senior Paralegal will serve as a senior resource within the contracts function, acting as an escalation point for contract resolution issues prior to attorney involvement. As part of Great Minds’ Legal team, this role is expected to provide guidance to Contract and Legal team members, support procedural improvements, oversee contract management system functionality, and ensure successful and timely contract execution.

Responsibilities

• Draft, redline, and negotiate various commercial contracts of moderate to high complexity, applying sound judgment regarding risk allocation, liability, indemnification, company compliance, and other substantive legal terms within delegated authority.

• Advise assigned business stakeholders on contract risk exposure and recommend courses of action before issues escalate.

• Proactively anticipate contract issues (e.g., deadlines, deliverables, and compliance risks) and coordinate early action with stakeholders to prevent disputes and delays.

• Resolve disputes, delays, or breaches, escalating to Senior Managing Counsel or outside counsel only for matters exceeding delegated authority or involving significant legal risk.

• Translate business objectives into contract language that protects company interests and supports long-term strategic goals.

• Review, approve and advise internal business clients on appropriate contract documentation with an eye to maintaining accuracy, managing legal risk, and tracking contract compliance prior to and following execution.

• Identify patterns of risk or inefficiency across the contract portfolio and recommend changes to contract templates, playbooks, negotiation positions, and contract management system processes.

• Guide the Legal Administrative Assistant on complex or ambiguous matters that require legal context and delegate administrative tasks related to maintenance of contract repository to Legal Administrative Assistant

• Prepare regular contract portfolio analysis and summary for Senior Managing Counsel beyond routine status reporting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive paralegal experience, including independent ownership of commercial contract negotiation from drafting through execution with attention to legal risk, contract compliance and business outcomes.

• Strong working knowledge of contract risk areas, including restrictive covenants, indemnification, limitation of liability, data privacy, IP ownership and licensing, AI risk, and termination provisions.

• Demonstrated experience exercising independent judgment on legal risk and identifying when to escalate complex legal questions to attorneys.

• Track record of negotiating directly with external counterparties and protecting organizational interests.

• Experience managing and advising on complex contract management systems and recommending process improvements, including technical understanding of platforms and ability to use efficiently.

• Experience managing competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the K-12 education B2B SaaS, and/or educational publishing industries that engages with state and local governments

• Experience serving as subject matter expert or escalation point on a legal team.

• Notary certification is a plus.

• Experience working with Agiloft contract management system is a plus.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; 5+ years of relevant paralegal experience.

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $85,000-$94,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact security@greatminds.org

Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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