Manager, Legal Operations

FLSA Classification:
Exempt

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 plus bonus

Reports to:

General Counsel

Location:

Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

About The Company:

Nine Dot's name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. As a leading community-scale, clean energy developer with a growing portfolio of projects across a range of technologies, Nine Dot Energy is creating innovative energy solutions that support a more resilient electric grid, deliver economic savings, address environmental justice and reduce carbon emissions. We plan to develop, build and operate more than 400 MW of clean energy systems by 2026 that will strengthen the local power grid infrastructure and provide clean, reliable and resilient power to tens of thousands of New York households and businesses.

This is all in support of New York State's mission to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040.

With the backing of Manulife Investment Management and The Carlyle Group - two of the world's leading infrastructure investors - Nine Dot is continuing to expand its core battery energy storage pipeline, deliver enhanced products and services, explore new regions and consider potential acquisitions all to advance the decarbonization of New York's grid. This is an exciting opportunity to build a platform from the ground-up with a world-class team of developers and innovators.

Job Summary

Reporting to the General Counsel, the Manager, Legal Operations will support and improve the legal team's operational processes, systems, and workflows to help the department operate efficiently and scale with the business.. This role will oversee legal processes, technology platforms, workflows, reporting, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel operations, and knowledge management to improve consistency, visibility, and execution across the function.

The ideal candidate brings strong legal operations and project management experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with the ability to implement practical systems, streamline cross-functional workflows, and support complex business operations. This role partners closely with Legal and teams across development, finance, construction, procurement, compliance, and asset management to drive efficient, business-focused legal support.

Responsibilities:

* Own the legal team's operations, including intake, matter management, prioritization, workflow design, reporting, templates, playbooks, approvals, and recordkeeping.

* Serve as the administrator and business owner for the Company's contract lifecycle management ("CLM") platform, including legacy archives, templates, clause libraries, approval workflows, signature processes, dashboards, user training, and continuous improvement.

* Improve and maintain legal intake processes that help business teams route requests efficiently, provide complete information, and understand expected turnaround times.

* Assist with reporting and KPI tracking for the General Counsel and the legal team, including matter volume, cycle times, contract status, outside counsel spend, workload distribution, and business team service levels.

* Partner with the legal team, project finance, development, construction, procurement, finance, asset management, and other teams to improve legal support for project development, financing, construction, procurement, corporate governance, litigation, and operational matters.

* Coordinate outside counsel operations, including engagement letters, billing guidelines, budgets, accruals, invoice review, spend tracking, and matter setup.

* Provide legal operations support for corporate governance and entity management processes, including workflow coordination, records organization, filing calendars, board and committee materials, signature authority, and related process tracking.

* Create and maintain legal team playbooks, standard operating procedures, contract templates, fallback positions, checklists, and self-service resources for business teams.

* Support implementation, administration, and optimization of legal technology platforms, including requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, pilot management, rollout planning, adoption, and ongoing administration.

* Support process improvement initiatives, including workflow automation and efficiency tools where appropriate to reduce manual work, improve consistency, and increase legal team capacity.

* Manage legal team knowledge management, including document storage, naming conventions, precedent organization, legal research repositories, contract metadata, and institutional knowledge capture.

* Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support efficient legal workflows and information sharing.

* Support budget planning, legal department planning, quarterly priorities, team meetings, and other operational rhythms for the legal function.

* Perform other duties as assigned by the General Counsel or the Company.

Core Competencies:

* Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with…