Legal Operations Lead

The role

The Legal Operations Lead will own systems, records, and workflows to support a small legal team. You will build operational foundations from scratch and report to the General Counsel.

What you will do

• Build and maintain contract operations including CLM workflows and approval logic
• Design a legal intake process to route requests from internal stakeholders
• Build and configure tooling to make the legal function faster with AI
• Manage corporate administration and record-keeping
• Manage Board and stockholder matters and signature coordination
• Build a knowledge management system and database
• Be the point person for corporate compliance including entity management and filings
• Support stock administration and cap table hygiene
• Manage outside counsel and legal spend

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or a corporate paralegal role
• Experience building and documenting processes from the ground up
• Experience configuring workflows and templates within Ironclad or a similar CLM
• Experience with AI tools
• Sound judgment about what to handle and what to escalate

Nice to have

• Preferably at a high-growth technology company
• Exposure to corporate and equity administration
• Familiarity with Carta or a similar equity administration platform

About the company

Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. The company has passed $1B in annualized run rate and raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation.