Legal Operations Associate

• Be the single point of contact for legal requests: triage, route, and track every matter to closure

• Negotiate and redline customer agreements (MSAs, order forms, DPAs, and NDAs) within our playbook, and escalate what needs outside counsel

• Manage our outside counsel relationships, scope matters, and track legal spend

• Keep contract templates current and version-controlled as pricing and processes change

• Work with Product to keep our terms of service, privacy policy, and in-product terms accurate

• Analyze contract terms against data-privacy, security, and commercial risk, and give leadership clear recommendations

• Build the systems that make legal scale: intake, a clause playbook, and contract management

• 0–3 years in legal operations, commercial contracts, or a transactional practice

• You've redlined or negotiated contracts yourself, not just watched

• You make a call with incomplete information, and you know when to escalate

• You can say no to a salesperson or a customer's lawyer and keep the relationship strong

• Clear, concise writing, and the follow-through to keep many matters moving at once

• Juris Doctor (JD)

• Admitted to the California bar

• SaaS agreements, DPAs, or privacy frameworks (GDPR, CCPA). CIPP/US is a plus

• Contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools

• Startup experience, or a firm serving startups

Cash for stability. Bonus for performance. Equity for ownership. Your package reflects your role, your experience, and what you deliver.