Legal Operations Analyst

Team Description

Cascade Asset Management Company (“Cascade”) is proud to protect and grow capital in service of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust in support of their mission-related and philanthropic activities. Mr. Gates and the Foundation Trust are committed to creating a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.

The Legal Operations Analyst will design, maintain, and enhance systems and tools that support legal operations, with a strong emphasis on data integrity, analytics and reporting, automation, generative AI, and process optimization. This role supports the legal and regulatory team’s work on trading, transactions, risk and assurance, and compliance matters related to our diverse public and private portfolio. This role bridges the gap between legal and technical domains and is ideal for someone who has worked inside legal workflows, is proficient in Power BI, and actively experiments with AI tools.

The analyst will be responsible for developing and managing workflows, legal datasets, and scalable solutions that improve efficiency and support Cascade’s legal and compliance efforts. This role collaborates cross-functionally with legal, technology, and other investment operations teams.

• Data & Reporting: Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, data models, and reporting that give the legal team and leadership visibility into legal, compliance, and risk and assurance data

• Legal Tech Systems
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  Oversee systems and processes for various legal data and workflows, including knowledge management, trade support, regulatory compliance, employee trading, vendor contracts, enterprise risk management, assurance, and more. Administer, populate, and report from multiple databases that capture information about our legal entities, investments, trading restrictions, counter parties, workflows, and other matters

• Process Optimization & Automation
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  Identify operational inefficiencies and propose and implement scalable, tech-enabled solutions; own and evolve workflows

• Enterprise Risk
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  Maintain dynamic risk assessment frameworks and tools to facilitate annual risk reviews, assurance activities, and reports to leadership

• AI Exploration & Implementation: Research and evaluate emerging AI tools relevant to legal and compliance functions, providing recommendations on adoption and designing and executing implementation plans. Configure and maintain AI capabilities such as review playbooks, custom skills and prompts, and contract intelligence repositories, testing and iterating on outputs with accountability for quality. Stay current on legal tech and AI trends to inform system enhancements and innovation opportunities

• Training & Adoption: Drive adoption of legal technology and AI across the legal and regulatory team through demonstrations, user guides, and feedback loops, and track and report adoption and outcomes

• Project Management
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  Participate in and manage legal and cross-department projects

You will work on systems and projects end-to-end, from scoping through delivery. Much of your work may start out under specified, as a problem with no established process, incomplete data, and no obvious owner, and you will be expected to figure out the path forward. We are looking for someone who:

• Can take a problem and run with it, applying genuine curiosity and practical judgment to make reasonable calls with sometimes imperfect information, while seeking guidance when required and escalating things that genuinely need escalating

• Stays with hard problems, finding a third approach when the first two fail rather than handing the problem back

• Commits to dates and hits them, and flags slippage early when a date is at risk

• Seeks out direct feedback and acts on it quickly

• Is comfortable working without a detailed roadmap in an environment where priorities shift

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic credentials in a relevant field (e.g. pre-law, business analytics, computer science, or similar)

• Three to six years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, compliance operations, or a comparable analytical role, with direct exposure to…