Senior Legal Operations Associate, Data Analytics

Summary

Join Remote's Legal team as a Sr Legal Operations Associate and make a difference in the global HR-tech space. You will report to the Associate General Counsel and support the Legal team's scalability and efficiency through technology, data-driven decision-making, and process improvement. This fully remote position offers the opportunity to design and develop legal technology solutions, optimize workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, substantial legal and legal operations experience, strong technical proficiency, and excellent data analysis skills. Remote offers competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Computer Science, or related field
• Substantial experience in a in-house legal department, law firm, consulting firm, or comparable experience, in both legal and legal operations capacities
• Demonstrable project management skills and experience owning end-to-end legal optimisation initiatives with clear impacts
• Strong technical proficiency, particularly in Slack, Notion, task management systems, workflow automation tools (e.g. Zapier), BI tools (e.g. Sigma)
• Relevant experience in programming languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript) and data analysis tools (e.g. SQL, Python)
• Good understanding of the legal technology market and landscape, particularly ALSPs, CLM, ELM tools, AI tools and expert systems
• Experience designing, building and implementing complex legal technology solutions, particularly tools using existing enterprise systems
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to gather insights from unstructured datasets
• Demonstrable experience in legal process engineering and improvement; and
• Ability to apply systems thinking and information architecture principles to solutions

Responsibilities

• Design and develop legal technology solutions and automation tools
• Create and maintain document automation systems
• Implement and optimize legal workflow processes
• Collaborate with relevant teams to identify opportunities for technological improvement. Partner with technical teams to design, build and implement technical solutions, both internally developed solutions (e.g. Slack, Notion, Zapier) and external tech tools (e.g. CLM, Coupa)
• Develop and maintain legal knowledge management systems, including improvements to knowledge management, such as actioning new knowledge actions, improving processes around same and supporting the scalability of Project Watchtower and any other legal-driven knowledge management initiatives
• Provide technical support for legal software applications
• End-to-end ownership of strategic optimisation projects and tasks, including scoping, ideation, planning, execution, reporting and stakeholder management
• Identify and propose solutions to Legal’s operational pain points, balancing quick wins with scalable solutions
• Drive improvements between cross-functional teams and Legal, such as self-help solutions, improved knowledge management and improving engagement processes
• Drive improvement of Remote’s external counsel management, including engagement models, panel composition, alternative market solutions and financial management
• Working with local counsel to handle higher risk events related to our products or services and ‘project managing’ these engagements
• Additional ad hoc legal support as required (based on individual skillset and expertise)
• Support with implementation of CLM tools and document generation solutions
• Build, manage and operationalise data cleansing, analysis, metrics and reporting with BI Tools (e.g. Sigma)
• Act as ‘product owner’ for Legal’s tech stack, including internally developed systems and tools
• Ad hoc legal / paralegal support to Legal team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Global employment law experience is a plus
• Background in a scale-up, HR-tech or fast-paced work environment is a plus
• Interest and understanding of complimentary disciplines and how to apply them to legal use cases, such as service design, product thinking, information architecture or UX design
• Good understanding of Artificial Intelligence and various Machine Learning methodologies

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces