Legal Operations Manager
About the role
About The Role & Team
Legal Operations Manager
As a Legal Operations Manager, you will
- Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable workflows across the Legal team, including commercial, product, privacy, corporate, and compliance-related work.
- Own and optimize the Legal team's technology ecosystem, including contract lifecycle management, e-signature, intake, knowledge management, and reporting tools.
- Identify practical opportunities to leverage automation and AI-enabled tools to streamline routine legal work, improve self-service, and strengthen data quality, while partnering with Legal and IT on appropriate governance and controls.
- Build dashboards and reporting that give Legal leadership visibility into workload, contract cycle times, key trends, business impact, and operational priorities.
- Lead cross-functional projects and change-management efforts, including new process rollouts, systems integrations, internal enablement, and stakeholder communications.
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for legal process and technology questions, helping employees navigate Legal's tools, resources, and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain scalable legal knowledge resources, templates, playbooks, and training programs that make it easier for the business to engage Legal effectively.
You'll be a great addition to the team if you have
- You are energized by finding better ways to work and can turn ambiguity into clear, practical processes.
- You bring a strong point of view on how automation and AI can improve legal operations, paired with sound judgment around accuracy, confidentiality, security, and human review.
- You can translate complex legal and operational needs into simple workflows, systems requirements, and actionable recommendations for a range of stakeholders.
- You are comfortable moving between strategic planning and hands-on execution, whether that means designing a roadmap, building a dashboard, or troubleshooting a workflow.
- You build strong cross-functional relationships and can influence adoption through clear communication, thoughtful change management, and a service-oriented mindset.
At a minimum, you need to have
- 4+ years of experience in legal operations, paralegal work, contract operations, or a related operational role supporting an in-house legal team.
- Experience managing and improving legal processes, including contract intake, contract lifecycle management, legal requests, knowledge management, or matter tracking.
- Proven experience using AI to improve workflows and increase efficiency for the legal team and its cross-functional parnters.
- Experience collecting, analyzing, and presenting operational data through dashboards, reports, or executive-ready insights.
- Strong project management, organizational, written communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Ironclad, DocuSign, Slack, Tableau, Snowflake and reporting or workflow automation platforms.
If you are excited to help build a modern, AI-enabled Legal function that is operationally excellent, business-minded, and built to scale, we would love to hear from you.
Our values
Humility
Ownership
Growth Mindset
Customer Centricity
We care about the well-being of our team
We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers. Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that's wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- We're a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.
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