Point72

Legal Operations and Innovation Manager

Point72 • $130K — $160K *
Stamford, CT 06902In-Person
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • At least eight years of experience in legal operations or a related field.
  • Background in law firms, asset management, banking, or regulated financial institutions.
  • Hands-on experience with document management systems.
  • Proven track record in managing legal processes and vendor relationships.
  • Strong project management capabilities to oversee multiple initiatives with little oversight.
  • Excellent judgment in handling sensitive information confidently.
  • Strong data management skills with a focus on actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage operational strategies for the Legal department alongside leadership.
  • Oversee annual budget planning and identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Enhance legal processes such as matter intake and document management.
  • Develop reporting dashboards showcasing key legal metrics.
  • Lead the implementation of legal technology and AI workflows.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory standards while managing automation.
  • Maintain corporate governance and entity management processes.

Benefits

  • Fully-paid health care benefits.
  • Generous parental and family leave policies.
  • Volunteer opportunities for community engagement.
  • Support for employee-led groups representing diversity.
  • Programs promoting mental and physical wellness.
  • Tuition assistance for career development.
  • 401(k) savings program with employer matching contributions.
Full Job Description
What you'll do
  • Build and own the operational backbone for the Legal department, partnering with the General Counsel and department leadership to execute long-term strategy, set priorities, and align resources with firm goals
  • Develop and manage the annual legal department budget, track legal spend, identify cost-saving opportunities, and streamline invoice processing
  • Improve core legal processes, including matter intake, triage, workflow routing, document management, knowledge management, and operational onboarding
  • Design data infrastructure, reporting, and dashboards that show matter volumes, assignments, capacity, cycle times, throughput, and spend trends
  • Lead the legal technology roadmap, including the evaluation, implementation, integration, administration, and adoption of systems and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled workflows
  • Govern automation and AI use to preserve privilege, respect information barriers, and meet regulatory defensibility expectations
  • Manage operational relationships with legal technology vendors and outside counsel, including onboarding, billing guidelines, invoice review, and performance tracking
  • Oversee entity management, corporate housekeeping, regulatory calendars, filings tracking, renewals, and operational support for fund-regulation workstreams
  • Maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, precedents, data taxonomies, and capture standards that enable consistent reporting and downstream automation

What's required
  • At least eight years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, or a comparable operational role
  • Experience working in a law firm, asset manager, bank, or other regulated financial institution
  • Hands-on experience implementing, administering, or operating a document management system
  • Demonstrated ownership of legal processes, vendor and outside counsel management, metrics, and reporting
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to run multiple workstreams to completion with minimal oversight
  • Excellent judgment when handling confidentiality, privilege, and sensitive information in a high-trust environment
  • Strong data orientation, including designing taxonomies, defining data capture requirements, and translating operational data into actionable reporting
  • Comfort with legal technology, automation, and AI-enabled workflows, with a practical understanding of how they can improve legal work
  • Proven ability to drive process and technology adoption across teams through training, measurement, and stakeholder engagement
  • Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
  • Fully-paid health care benefits
  • Generous parental and family leave policies
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
  • Mental and physical wellness programs
  • Tuition assistance
  • A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a hedge fund and family office founded by Steven Cohen in 2014. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and manages over $16 billion in assets. Point72 primarily invests in public equity markets, but also has a private equity arm. The company has a global presence with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore. Point72 has been involved in several high-profile legal cases, including a $1.8 billion settlement with the SEC in 2013.
Learn more about Point72
Size
1,500 employees
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Founded
2014
* Ladders Estimates

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