Legal Operations Manager

Accountabilities

• Review and support the negotiation of a wide range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, DPAs, SaaS contracts, vendor agreements, order forms, and security addendums.


• Identify legal, commercial, and compliance risks within contract language and escalate complex or high-risk issues to external counsel when necessary.


• Coordinate with external legal advisors and translate their recommendations into clear, actionable guidance for internal stakeholders.


• Support go-to-market and business teams in maintaining efficient and consistent contract review processes aligned with internal policies.


• Design, implement, and maintain legal operations workflows, including contract intake, tracking systems, approval processes, and documentation structures.


• Organize and maintain legal repositories, ensuring contracts, templates, clauses, obligations, and approvals are easily accessible and well-structured.


• Develop and continuously improve legal templates, fallback clauses, playbooks, and standardized contract language to streamline reviews.


• Enhance legal operational tooling across platforms such as Google Drive, Notion, HubSpot, PandaDoc, and other business systems.


• Support vendor due diligence and contract-related compliance requirements, including security and privacy documentation.


• Educate internal teams on legal processes, helping ensure proper routing and handling of contract-related requests across the organization.

Requirements

• Experience as a paralegal, legal operations professional, contract manager, legal counsel, or similar role within a SaaS, technology company, or law firm environment.


• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, NDAs, DPAs, vendor agreements, and customer order forms.


• Proven ability to review standard agreements and identify when escalation to legal counsel is required.


• Experience working with external legal counsel and translating legal input into business-friendly guidance.


• Strong organizational skills with the ability to build and maintain structured legal processes, systems, and documentation from scratch.


• Excellent cross-functional communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with Sales, Security, Business Operations, and Leadership teams.


• Detail-oriented mindset with strong analytical and risk assessment capabilities.


• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management tools and productivity platforms such as Notion, Google Workspace, and CRM systems.


• Understanding of compliance and privacy frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, and vendor risk management is highly desirable.


• Experience creating or improving legal playbooks, clause libraries, intake workflows, or approval systems is a strong plus.


• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base salary and equity participation.


• Opportunity to build and own the legal operations function from the ground up.


• High-impact role with direct visibility to leadership and cross-functional teams.


• Exposure to fast-scaling SaaS business operations and commercial deal processes.


• Flexible and remote-friendly working environment.


• Opportunity to work closely with experienced leadership and external legal experts.


• Career growth potential as the legal function expands.


• Dynamic, high-ownership culture focused on speed, clarity, and execution.


• Involvement in shaping foundational legal systems, tools, and processes for long-term scalability.

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