HighLevel
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Director, Legal Operations
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$187K - $262K / year
Bachelor Degree12 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglish
Job Description
• Design and run a scalable Legal operating model
• Develop, own, and continuously refine the legal department's operational strategy
• Assist with organizational design and capacity planning across the Legal team
• Design processes that are frictionless by default
• Define and drive the legal department's AI and technology roadmap
• Partner with engineering to build bespoke solutions for legal analytics, contract intelligence, and operational reporting
• Develop dashboards and metrics for visibility into workload, cycle times, and team performance
• Build and maintain operational playbooks and SOPs
• Partner with the VP of Legal to own the executive reporting framework
• Monitor OKR progress and recommend course corrections
• Identify work that should transfer to other departments
• Lead change management efforts across Legal
• Serve as HighLevel's primary point of contact for third-party subpoenas
• Manage the end-to-end response process independently
• Own the administrative infrastructure for HighLevel's IP portfolio
• Serve as a core member of the Legal leadership team
• Mentor and develop team members
Job Requirements
- 12+ years in legal operations with a track record of building or scaling legal ops functions in high-growth environments
- Experience leading AI, automation, or data-driven transformation initiatives within a legal department
- Experience managing discovery processes, including third-party subpoenas, litigation holds, and production workflows
- Deep experience with legal technology platforms (CLM, e-billing, matter management, eDiscovery), including hands-on implementation
- Strong technical fluency: able to collaborate directly with engineers on tool development without an intermediary
- Experience owning or significantly contributing to legal department budgeting, forecasting, and outside counsel management
- Philosophy of building lean, frictionless processes, with examples of systems you've built that made teams faster
- Experience managing and developing a legal operations team
Benefits
- Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
- Opportunity for professional development