Director, Legal Operations

Director, Legal Operations About The Role

The Director, Legal Operations & Finance is a strategic leader responsible for driving operational excellence, financial discipline, and technology enablement across the global legal function. This role partners closely with the General Counsel, legal leadership, and cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure efficient, cost‑effective, and scalable delivery of legal services aligned with business priorities.

We are seeking a collaborative, strategic leader with strong operational, financial, and technology acumen. The ideal candidate has experience building, scaling, or transforming Legal Operations or comparable business operations functions and can translate strategy into sustainable governance, processes, and capabilities. The candidate understands that the Legal Department must manage risk while enabling practical, timely business decisions.

Accountability: You will own the legal department’s budget management, forecasting, and financial reporting processes, and you will lead the strategy and execution of legal technology initiatives — including AI implementation, enterprise reporting, and digital transformation — to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and scalable delivery of legal services aligned with business priorities.

Collaboration: You build trusted, practical partnerships across the enterprise and are comfortable working with diverse stakeholders and viewpoints. Whether you are partnering with Finance on budgeting and forecasting, coordinating with IT and Digital teams on legal technology solutions, working with Procurement on vendor management, or aligning with Compliance and Cybersecurity on e‑discovery and data preservation, you bring a calm, solutions‑oriented approach and communicate clearly with credibility.

Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic environment and can shift seamlessly between longer‑horizon strategic initiatives — such as technology roadmap development, process optimization, and operating model design — and time‑sensitive operational demands such as e‑discovery deadlines, budget close cycles, and urgent matter intake.

Employee Champion: You are an experienced people leader who develops legal operations professionals and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Partner with the General Counsel and legal leadership to set priorities and drive execution against departmental goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by providing insights and practical recommendations to support leadership decisions.
• Translate strategy into actionable plans with clear milestones, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, strengthen value, and reduce outside legal spend.

• Act as department liaison partnering with Finance for budgeting, forecasting, month‑end close and financial reporting.
• Oversee invoice lifecycle management ensuring compliance and accuracy.

• Support Legal Department leaders and other stakeholders in outside counsel and vendor management initiatives.
• Manage outside counsel billing and onboarding.
• Establish billing guidelines and engagement standards.
• Oversee coordination of Legal Settlement payments with payroll and accounts payable.
• Work with procurement in establishing purchase orders with vendors.

• Oversee the global e‑discovery function, ensuring efficient, defensible, and cost‑effective management of electronically stored information for litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters.
• Manage the end‑to‑end e‑discovery lifecycle (legal hold, preservation, collection, review, production, disposition).
• Administer the legal hold program, ensuring timely issuance, tracking, and compliance.
• Manage e‑discovery tools and vendors; leverage analytics, AI, and automation to improve quality and reduce cost.
• Partner with Legal, IT, Cybersecurity, and Compliance on data preservation, incident response, and investigations.

• Work with legal functions to standardize and improve processes.
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