Legal Operations Manager
The Legal Operations Manager will build and optimize Legal & Compliance workflows, technology, reporting, governance processes, and vendor operations. The role requires at least five years of legal operations experience and strong cross-functional execution, communication, and legal technology skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build Legal & Compliance operations, including the roadmap, intake and routing system, operating cadence, and cross-functional follow-through.
- Optimize the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform and procurement workflows, including intake, templates, playbooks, approvals, repository standards, reporting, and integrations.
- Build dashboards covering request volume, contract cycle time, outside-counsel spend, audit findings, policy implementation, training completion, and other operational indicators.
- Plan and coordinate recurring corporate, contract, employment, and other audit cycles.
- Build a knowledge base, FAQs, self-service guidance, regulatory updates, and responsible AI-enabled tools.
- Manage materials and trackers for financings, corporate governance, Board processes, entity records, and Corporate Secretary responsibilities.
- Coordinate company policy updates and core training rollouts.
- Manage budgets, invoices, accruals, outside-counsel relationships, and vendor performance.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience in legal operations, ideally including prior paralegal or similar experience.
- Experience building systems and driving cross-functional execution in a fast-moving organization.
- Expertise deploying AI tools and other technical solutions to improve legal operations.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management, matter intake, knowledge management, procurement, legal technology, and data-driven operations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to move quickly, identify efficient approaches, and deliver against demanding goals.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity for full-time employees.
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody memberships.
- Unlimited paid time off and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401(k), FSA, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
- Daily office lunch and dinner after 6:30 p.m.
Skills
Legal Operations, Contract Lifecycle Management, Procurement, Matter Intake, Knowledge Management, Legal Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Corporate Governance, Audit Management, Vendor Management, Dashboarding
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