Legal Operations Manager

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

• Develop and implement best practices, policies, and procedures to standardize legal operations and improve efficiency across the organization.
• Assist with preparing regular reports and dashboards on key legal metrics, performance indicators, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Assist with the review and triage of contracts, lead internal cross-departmental contract processes, and resolve challenges and queries from counterparties. 
• Manage the contract lifecycle and have a key part in Alpaca’s contract development, contract approval coordination, contract file and database management, and contract lifecycle management implementation across Alpaca.
• Coordinate the execution of key legal documents.
• Work collaboratively to create and provide continuous improvement of cross-team training, playbooks, contract templates, and legal processes to enable the Legal team to scale with Alpaca’s growth in tandem with our cross-functional partners.
• Compile library & logs of all key commercial documents ranging from banking, vendor applications to partnership account openings. 
• Assist in the coordination of compiling, and completing all administrative documents.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sales, Compliance, Finance, and Senior Management as appropriate.
• Create a central library of corporate and legal documents, and related guiding documents within Confluence / Google Drive.
• Provide support as needed in maintaining entity registrations/licenses and international expansion.
• Provide general support to the Director of Legal and perform other adhoc administrative duties, as required.

• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in a contract & administration role, preferably within a SaaS / fintech company
• Experienced in the Contract Administration process and administrative tasks
• Strong experience with contract lifecycle management systems is a plus
• Must have excellent oral and written English skills, along with good interpersonal skills
• Effective communication and negotiation skills
• Strong business acumen and judgment
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and work with cross-functional teams
• Ability to work independently on multiple priorities
• Flexibility and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment
• Understanding of and commitment to compliance with Company policies and practices
• Strong MacOS computer skills (Google Suite, Confluence, MS Word including “blackline” functionality, MS Excel)