Legal Operations Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North America.

📋 Description

• Assist with Contract Review & Counsel Coordination

• Evaluate modifications to agreements, including NDAs, DPAs, customer subscription orders, terms of service, vendor contracts, and security addendums.

• Recognize legal or business risks and escalate unique, novel, or higher-risk language to external counsel when necessary.

• Collaborate with external counsel on intricate matters and summarize key risks, recommendations, and decisions for internal stakeholders.

• Aid the GTM team in expediting contract reviews while ensuring adherence to company policies.

• Develop Legal Operations Infrastructure

• Establish and maintain essential legal operations processes, such as contract tracking, intake workflows, document organization, and approval workflows.

• Systematize existing legal documents to ensure contracts, templates, accepted language, deviations, obligations, renewals, and approvals are easily accessible.

• Create and sustain contract templates, clause libraries, fallback language, and internal playbooks to minimize repetitive reviews.

• Enhance the management of legal work across tools like Google Drive, PandaDoc, HubSpot, Notion, and any additional tools the function may require.

• Assist with Vendor Review & Contract-Related Risk

• Assess vendor agreements for new software and service acquisitions as required.

• Support customer and vendor contract stipulations related to security, compliance, and insurance documentation.

• Guide internal teams on when legal review is necessary and how to navigate requests through the appropriate process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience as a paralegal, legal operations professional, contract manager, legal counsel, or in a similar legal support position, preferably within a SaaS, law firm, or technology company.

• Proficient in reviewing standard contracts and recognizing when escalation is warranted.

• Knowledgeable about SaaS agreements, NDAs, DPAs, order forms, vendor agreements, and security or privacy-related contract terms.

• Experience in coordinating with external counsel and translating legal advice into clear business recommendations.

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adept at creating processes, systems, templates, and documentation from the ground up.

• Effective and practical communicator capable of collaborating cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Security, Business Operations, and leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours

• Paid time off

• Remote work options