Legal Operations Lead
About the Role
This role owns and builds the legal operating system at a fast-growing AI infrastructure company, sitting at the intersection of hands-on contracting and systems design. As the first dedicated legal operations hire, you will make legal scalable as commercial agreement volume and complexity grows, combining day-to-day drafting work with longer-term process improvement.
What You'll Do
Own the end-to-end legal workflow, covering intake, prioritization, approvals, escalation paths, document management, and outside-counsel coordination.
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements with buyers, data vendors, and partners, including MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, SLAs, NDAs, and vendor contracts.
Build and maintain contract templates and negotiation playbooks for recurring issues such as data rights and usage restrictions.
Identify opportunities to automate or streamline high-volume legal workflows using software and AI, while preserving human judgment for complex matters.
Establish clear decision rules for what stays internal, what can be standardized or automated, and what escalates to founders or outside counsel.
Manage outside counsel strategically to control
