Legal Operations Manager

About the role

This is a unique opportunity to own legal operations in a fast‑growing, product‑led SaaS organization. You will build the systems, processes, and workflows that enable the business to scale while managing legal and contractual risk.

Key responsibilities

• Review and support negotiation of commercial agreements such as NDAs, DPAs, SaaS contracts, vendor agreements, order forms, and security addendums.
• Identify legal, commercial, and compliance risks in contract language and escalate high‑risk issues to external counsel.
• Coordinate with external legal advisors and translate their recommendations into clear guidance for internal stakeholders.
• Design, implement, and maintain legal operations workflows, including contract intake, tracking, approval processes, and documentation structures.
• Organise and maintain legal repositories, ensuring contracts, templates, clauses, and obligations are easily accessible.
• Develop and continuously improve legal templates, fallback clauses, playbooks, and standardized contract language.
• Enhance legal operational tooling across platforms such as Google Drive, Notion, HubSpot, and PandaDoc.
• Support vendor due‑diligence and contract‑related compliance requirements, including security and privacy documentation.
• Educate internal teams on legal processes to ensure proper routing and handling of contract‑related requests.

Required profile

• Experience as a paralegal, legal operations professional, contract manager, legal counsel, or similar role within a SaaS, technology company, or law firm.
• Strong understanding of commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, NDAs, DPAs, vendor agreements, and customer order forms.
• Proven ability to review standard agreements and determine when escalation to legal counsel is required.
• Experience working with external legal counsel and translating legal input into business‑friendly guidance.

Required skills

• Google Drive
• Notion
• HubSpot
• PandaDoc