Ironclad

Staff Product Manager, Contract Understanding Platform

Ironclad$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience overseeing complex technical products.
  • Proven track record in launching production AI/ML, developer platforms, or search products.
  • Strong understanding of LLM systems, data models, evaluation methods, and costs.
  • Ability to distinguish between benchmark performance and real-world data quality.
  • Platform-centric thinking to address immediate and long-term needs simultaneously.
  • Experience delivering customer-centric outcomes rather than focusing solely on internal tools.
  • Expertise in enterprise product management considering scalability and compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and quality for contract understanding including setting vision and accountability.
  • Define APIs and user experience for consistent data extraction across teams.
  • Enhance user interfaces for data validation, harnessing user feedback for improvements.
  • Model and represent intricate relationships within contracts for improved AI reasoning.
  • Manage the quality metrics and feedback systems for continuous AI enhancement.
  • Integrate contract understanding capabilities into customer workflows and derive value from existing data.
  • Influence technical decisions and align cross-functional teams on clear execution goals.

Benefits

  • 100% health coverage for employees and 75% for dependents with options for more coverage.
  • Generous parental leave and compassionate leave policies.
  • Support for family planning through Maven services.
  • Flexible paid time off to suit personal needs.
  • Monthly stipends for wellness and hybrid work needs.
  • Mental health support and counseling services available.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits offered in the US.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching for retirement savings.
  • Regular team events to foster connection and team spirit.
  • Opportunity to have a say in building the desired work culture and environment.
Full Job Description
This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.

About this role:

You'll own Ironclad's Contract Understanding Platform: the extraction and document understanding systems that turn contracts into accurate, structured, actionable knowledge. It powers Search, Smart Import, and our AI Agents, and it's the ground truth every agent reasons over.

You'll own extraction quality end to end, from document import to structured data to export, and shape how that data is built once and served to every team that depends on it. You will go deeper than flat properties: capturing the relationships between clauses, terms, and contracts so agents can reason across a customer's entire repository. Expect to move between customer workflows and hard technical calls, from an API contract to a build-versus-buy decision to a production-quality regression. You'll partner across engineering, applied science, design, data, legal experts, Security, and GTM, and you'll bring technical depth, sharp product judgment, and the ability to create clarity in ambiguity.

Responsibilities:
  • Own the strategy and the quality. Set the vision, roadmap, and OKRs for contract understanding, and stay accountable for extraction accuracy, depth, and coverage from import through export, including long documents, multi-agreement detection, and bulk extraction.
  • Build the data once, serve it everywhere. Define the APIs, schemas, and developer experience that let every client team build on a single, consistent extraction service.
  • Build and ideate on front-end user experiences. Enable users to review and validate data and use that feedback to improve product quality.
  • Model the relationships in a contract. Move from flat properties to a connected representation that captures clauses, topics, intra- and inter-contract relationships, and negotiation history, so agents reason relationally and with high recall.
  • Own the AI quality flywheel. Build the datasets, evals, production metrics, regression gates, and feedback loops that separate benchmark scores from real production quality.
  • Connect the platform to customers. Carry shared capabilities into workflows like Smart Import and Intake, and use research, telemetry, and GTM feedback to turn a customer's existing contract data into durable advantage.
  • Lead through influence. Make consequential technical calls (model architectures, vendors, build-versus-buy) and align engineering, design, data, executives, and partners around clear decisions and accountable execution.

Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of product management experience, including staff-level ownership of a technically complex product area.
  • Experience shipping production AI/ML, developer platform, data infrastructure, or search products.
  • Practical fluency with LLM systems, extraction or retrieval, APIs, data models, evaluation methods, latency, and cost.
  • Strong quantitative judgment, including the ability to tell offline benchmark performance from actual production quality.
  • Platform instincts: you solve immediate needs while extracting durable, shared capabilities.
  • Experience owning customer-facing outcomes, not just internal infrastructure.
  • Enterprise-product judgment where trust, scale, compliance, and workflow integration matter.
  • Excellent written communication and influence across engineering, leadership, GTM, and customers.
  • Experience with document AI, knowledge graphs, legal tech, or data-labeling systems is a plus, not a requirement.


US Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:
  • 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
  • Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
  • Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
  • Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
  • Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
  • Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
  • 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
  • Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
  • And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

**UK Employee-specific benefits are included on our UK job postings

About Ironclad

Ironclad is a legal technology company that provides a contract management platform. The platform helps legal teams manage contracts more efficiently and effectively. Ironclad's products include contract workflow, contract analytics, and contract collaboration. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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100 employees
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Founded
2014

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