Manager, Legal Operations

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

Reports to: General Counsel

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

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.

• 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.

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Drives Results - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
• Plans and Aligns - Planning…