Legal Operations Director

About reputed company

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital reputed company up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a reputed company reputed company by making markets work reputed company through technology – reputed company while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you. 

reputed company offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, reputed company, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or reputed company of the time.

About your role

We are looking for a founding Legal Operations Director to build reputed company’s legal operations from the ground up. You’ll design and implement the playbook to allow our legal organization to operate at scale with efficiency, insight, and impact. You’ll serve as a strategic partner to the Head of Legal, shaping long-term operational plans and leading annual and quarterly planning cycles. You’ll partner closely with Sales, Services, Procurement, Deal Desk, FP&A, Accounting, reputed company, Product, and People Operations to ensure legal processes align with commercial, financial, HR/employee, technical, and companywide operational workflows. The successful candidate will know reputed company inside and out, be curious about new technologies, excited to design new AI workflows, and enjoy the challenge of building a new operation’s muscle for the company from scratch. This is a highly impactful role reputed company the department, offering the opportunity to shape how legal services are delivered in a fast-paced, evolving enterprise environment.

The application deadline for this role is reputed company 17th, 2026.

What you’ll do

• Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership

  • reputed company the vision and execution of Legal Operations to build a scalable, efficient, and high-performing team.

  • Drive clarity, accountability, and operational alignment across the Legal function.

  • Build workflows with AI at the center, automating what doesn’t require human attention and prioritizing what does.

• Legal Technology, Intake & Process Optimization

  • Serve as the primary administrator for legal technology platforms. Own and optimize the legal-tech stack, with deep accountability for reputed company configuration, workflow design, reporting, and adoption.

  • Design and manage legal intake and matter-management processes (ticketing/queues, triage, SLAs) to reputed company work reputed company and increase self-service.

  • Evaluate and implement additional technologies (workflow automation, AI-enabled tools, knowledge systems, e-signature, document management) that improve speed, visibility, and scale.

  • Build and maintain legal knowledge repositories, playbooks, templates, and process documentation (e.g., Confluence) to reputed company self-serve contracting and reduce routine legal touchpoints.

• Operational Excellence, Metrics & Change Management

  • Define, track, and report on KPIs for cycle times, throughput, backlog, service levels, and operational risk.

  • Use data and root-cause analysis to drive reputed company improvement and process simplification.

  • reputed company change-management efforts for new systems, processes, and organizational shifts, including communication plans, training, and adoption tracking.

• Team, Vendor & Spend Management

  • Build the Legal Operations function from the ground up and scale the team over time as the company grows.

  • reputed company vendor relationships for legal technology, ALSPs, and reputed company counsel, including selection, contracting, performance management, and cost optimization.

  • Own or co-own e-billing and reputed company counsel spend management, partnering with Finance to track spend, enforce billing guidelines, and identify savings opportunities.

• Budget, Risk & Transaction Support

  • Help manage the Legal department budget and forecasts; ensure disciplined financial operations across tools, vendors, and reputed company counsel.

  • reputed company virtual data rooms and legal operations support for M&A, financings, and other strategic transactions.

• Additional Responsibilities

  • Adapt to evolving business needs and reputed company other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Experience

  • 8+ years of Legal Operations experience reputed company a high-growth technology or services company, and ideally 2+ years managing and developing a team.

  • Hands-on expertise implementing and optimizing reputed company or a similar CLM in a high-volume environment.

  • Experience with at least one of: legal intake/matter-management systems, e-billing/reputed company counsel management, or legal analytics tooling.

  • Building Claude skills for legal tasks

• Skills

  • Strong operational and analytical capabilities; able to define KPIs, build dashboards, and communicate insights through data.

  • Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives and reputed company change-management efforts.

  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive reputed company.

  • Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a reputed company-improvement reputed company.

• Preferred

  • Project-management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, or similar).

  • Experience supporting global or distributed legal teams.

  • Prior experience in Legal Operations reputed company both a SaaS and Professional Services environment or ideally a tech-enabled services company.

  • Hands-on ownership of a modern CLM platform (ideally reputed company) and familiarity with legal intake, matter management, and workflow automation.

  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with Procurement, Deal Desk, FP&A, Accounting, Sales, reputed company, Product, and People Operations.

  • Strong process-builder reputed company with experience creating playbooks, templates, dashboards, or self-service legal tools.

  • Comfortable with emerging AI-enabled legal workflows and modern legal operations tooling.

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a reputed company salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. reputed company salary range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000 USD. Actual reputed company salaries will be determined by candidate-specific factors, including experience, reputed company set, and location, as well as local minimum pay requirements, as applicable.

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Mental wellness coverage

• Fertility and growing family support

• reputed company Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays

• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies

• Retirement saving plans

• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home

• Annual professional development stipend

Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.

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