Senior Analyst, Legal Operations

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the day-to-day lead for Legal team operations, coordinating workflow, prioritizing requests, and driving timely, high-quality execution across the Legal team.
• Partner with attorneys and Legal leadership to define, operationalize, and drive Legal team goals, strategic priorities, and project portfolios.
• Oversee the workflow of other Legal Analysts, including defining priorities, process preferences, and ensuring consistent application of legal operations standards.
• Own legal operations initiatives across intake, triage, contracting workflow, knowledge management, and service delivery to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Lead the development and implementation of legal processes, playbooks, standard operating procedures, templates, and best practices across the Legal team.
• Act as the primary point of coordination for analyst escalations, workflow bottlenecks, and operational issues, presenting research, risk analysis, and practical recommendations to attorneys and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, and reporting to track Legal team workload, turnaround times, project progress, and operational performance.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities to streamline Legal operations through legal technology, automation, and AI tools, including platforms such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude.
• Design and improve legal intake, routing, and self-service workflows so business stakeholders can access the right legal support more efficiently.
• Monitor and improve data quality, process integrity, and reporting within Commerce’s contract management and related legal systems.
• Develop, maintain, and organize repositories of legal guidance, standard responses, training materials, and reference resources for use by Legal and cross-functional teams.
• Conduct initial review of contracts against internal legal thresholds, standards, and playbooks, and review, negotiate, and revise nondisclosure agreements and procurement contracts with attorney support as appropriate.
• Assist attorneys with preparation, review, negotiation, and redlining of other legal documents, routine correspondence, and ad hoc legal projects.
• Partner cross-functionally with teams such as Sales, Procurement, GRC, Security, Finance, HR, and Product & Engineering to improve legal request management and support business priorities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the company’s operations, products, market, customers, and risk profile to support practical, commercially aligned legal operations.
• Coach and mentor Legal Analysts and interns on work quality, legal operations processes, systems, and best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in legal operations, contract management, paralegal operations, corporate legal support, or a similar in-house legal environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects, coordinating workflows, or serving as a functional lead in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong operational mindset with experience improving processes, building playbooks, and driving execution across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience using or evaluating legal technology, workflow tools, automation solutions, and generative AI tools and platforms to improve efficiency and scale.
• Familiarity with tools such as Salesforce, Conga, Docu Sign, contract lifecycle management systems, ticketing/workflow tools is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate legal and operational issues into clear, practical guidance.
• Ability to think ahead, anticipate issues, and balance competing priorities in a dynamic business environment.
• Takes ownership of work and drives projects through to completion with limited oversight.
• Ability to work in a confidential manner due to access to information of a sensitive nature.
• Excellent time management, organizational, and prioritization skills; able to shift quickly for urgent matters and escalations.
• SaaS or technology company experience preferred.
• Positive, collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across all levels of the organization.

Salary range: $90,813.00 – $. Potential variable compensation, equity, and benefits per local policy.

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