Senior Legal Operations Manager

The role

You will own the operational engine of the legal team, including the contract lifecycle platform, tech stack, and knowledge management. You will also act as a project manager and partner to the General Counsel on cross-functional initiatives and reporting.

What you will do

• Build out the legal intake front door
• Partner with Sales, Finance, InfoSec and Procurement to streamline processes
• Support knowledge management and internal policy administration
• Build an external legal spend tracker from scratch
• Own KPI reporting improvements using Ironclad dashboards
• Manage the tech stack including Ironclad, Linear, Google Workspace, Notion, and AI tools
• Maintain sales contract playbooks and legal templates
• Drive follow-through on open projects
• Produce executive-level reporting with the General Counsel
• Assist with management of large legal projects like M&A diligence and trademark portfolio work

Required qualifications

• At least five years' experience running legal operations, contracts operations or a closely adjacent function
• Hands-on experience with Ironclad or a directly comparable enterprise CLM
• Experience owning legal or cross-functional projects including timelines, risks, stakeholders and outcomes
• Ability to build clean dashboards and work with a KPI framework
• Highly organised with a systems mindset
• Commercial, action-biased, and comfortable with ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience setting up spend tracking, panel management or legal project management
• Experience as a team's first or only legal-ops hire, or a member of a small team in the early stage of the build-out of a legal ops function

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Equity
• Pension (minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Paid sick leave with Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work schemes
• 25 holiday days per year
• Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service

About the company

9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets. The business powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors.