Legal Operations Manager

The Role

We're hiring a Legal Operations Manager to scale and support the growing legal function at Peregrine. We're looking for a detail-oriented self-starter to partner with internal legal counsel and cross-functionally with other Peregrine teams to design, build, and improve legal operations processes and workflows to create operational efficiencies during a pivotal growth period for the Company. If you are the type of legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves to impact growth by optimizing operational excellence, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

• Drive legal technology initiatives by evaluating, implementing and maintaining tools, resources and systems to optimize legal team efficiency and excellence, including contract lifecycle, legal intake and knowledge management initiatives
• Oversee legal file management from end to end, including vendor, corporate and commercial contract records
• Maintain corporate compliance, including registrations, annual reports and related administrative filings
• Provide assistance with legal template generation and management across the organization
• Manage administration of outside counsel relationships, including tracking and review of invoices and maintenance of outside counsel roster
• Partner with cross-functional teams to create, maintain, track and record company policies (i.e. document retention practices, etc).
• Identify, design and build process improvements and change management strategies across vendor management, customer contracting and employee-facing legal workflows
• Assist General Counsel and Senior Counsel with contract drafting, administration and other ad hoc projects as needed, including in connection with business expansion across new verticals
• Create and manage legal trainings with the internal legal and cross-functional business teams

What We Look For

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations or related fields (i.e. business operations, paralegal functions), ideally within a start-up in-house environment
• Legal training (JD, LLM) is a plus but not required
• Strong project management skills with a high degree of ownership; you're able to roll up your sleeves and manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders with clarity and follow-through
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills - you're someone who doesn't let things fall through the cracks
• Strong written and verbal communication - you're warm, clear, and confident when presenting or interacting with new hires and teammates
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and adapting quickly in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Experience or familiarity with the following tools and platforms preferred: Notion, Ironclad (or related CLM), Salesforce
• Located in or commutable to Washington, D.C. and open to working in office

Salary Range: $125,000 - $165,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.