Legal Operations Manager

The role

You will be the first legal hire and the point person for all legal matters at Bobyard. You will negotiate customer agreements, manage outside counsel, and build systems to scale legal operations.

What you will do

• Be the single point of contact for legal requests
• Negotiate and redline customer agreements within our playbook
• Manage outside counsel relationships, scope matters, and track legal spend
• Keep contract templates current and version-controlled
• Work with Product to keep terms of service, privacy policy, and in-product terms accurate
• Analyze contract terms against data-privacy, security, and commercial risk
• Build systems for intake, a clause playbook, and contract management

Required qualifications

• 4-6 years in legal operations, commercial contracts, or a transactional practice
• Experience redlining or negotiating contracts yourself
• Ability to make a call with incomplete information
• Ability to say no to a salesperson or a customer's lawyer and keep the relationship strong
• Clear, concise writing
• Follow-through to keep many matters moving at once

Nice to have

• Juris Doctor (JD)
• SaaS agreements, DPAs, or privacy frameworks (GDPR, CCPA)
• CIPP/US
• Contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools
• Startup experience, or a firm serving startups

Benefits

• Cash for stability
• Bonus for performance
• Equity for ownership
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4%
• Catered lunch in the office
• $70 a month toward your commute

About the company

Bobyard uses computer vision and NLP to automate takeoffs and estimates for the construction industry. They raised a $35M Series A led by 8VC, with Primary and Pear.