Operations Manager, Legal

📋 Description

• Manage day-to-day operations of the legal function, including planning, prioritization, and tracking of team workstreams and initiatives.
• Act as the point of contact between Legal and cross-functional partners (e.g., Finance, PeopleOps, Sales, Product, go-to-market), ensuring clear and timely two-way communication and coordination.
• Maintain and improve legal processes, playbooks, templates, and standard operating procedures, with a focus on standardization and automation.
• Partner with the finance team to assist with budgeting, forecasting, and tracking legal spend to support financial planning and operational efficiency.
• Implement, administer, and optimize legal technology tools (e.g., contract management via Ironclad, document and knowledge management), including vendor evaluation (via Omnea), onboarding, and training.
• Design and manage intake, triage, and allocation workflows for legal requests, ensuring they are properly scoped, prioritized, and assigned within the legal team.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in an operations, project management, or similar role (e.g., business operations, legal operations, practice management, PMO).
• Experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department (preferred but not strictly required).
• A legal qualification (e.g., LLB/JD or equivalent) is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Demonstrated experience improving processes, implementing or managing business systems/tools, and driving change in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities and deliver against deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate between legal and non-legal audiences and drive alignment across teams.

🎁 Benefits

• Open and inclusive culture and work environment.
• Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research.
• Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches and snacks.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months.
• Remote-friendly with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a coworking stipend.