Legal Operations & Compliance Lead

Twelve Labs

• $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in legal operations or compliance, preferably in-house at a tech or AI company.
  • Proven ability to design and own legal processes rather than just manage them.
  • Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) or matter management systems.
  • Skilled in tracking outside counsel budgets and legal invoices.
  • Detail-oriented project management capabilities with good judgment for escalation.
  • Comfortable handling confidential information and able to work independently.

Responsibilities

  • Own legal intake, matter tracking, and workflow administration.
  • Identify opportunities to standardize workflows and implement automation solutions.
  • Act as the operational owner of the current CLM and gather requirements for future technology.
  • Maintain corporate governance records and support board meetings and entity administration.
  • Coordinate compliance projects across various operational areas like Legal, Security, and Finance.
  • Support legal and administrative functions for compliance initiatives like SOC 2 and privacy regulations.
  • Train employees on legal systems and workflows.

Benefits

  • Open and inclusive company culture.
  • Collaborative work environment focused on AI technology.
  • Full health, dental, and vision benefits provided.
  • Flexible PTO and parental leave policy, with office closure during the holiday season.
  • Monthly wellness stipend for employee well-being.
  • Annual stipend for Learning & Development opportunities.
  • Global offices and coworking memberships for remote employees.
  • Visa support for international candidates where applicable.
  • Transportation stipend for onsite employees in San Francisco.
  • Daily meals provided for SF onsite staff.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Twelve Labs is hiring a Legal Operations & Compliance Manager to build and run the operational backbone of our Legal function. You'll own the systems, processes, and records that let a small Legal team support a fast-growing global business, spanning contract operations, corporate governance administration, outside-counsel management, IP portfolio coordination, compliance-program administration, and legal technology.

Candidates must be able to travel up to 10% of the time annually to attend conferences, off-site meetings, and other business-related events as required by the role. This role may require participation in on-site interviews and/or completion of in-person onboarding processes.

In this role, you will
  • Own Legal intake, triage, matter tracking, workflow administration, and status reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to replace repetitive manual work with standardized workflows, self-service tools, or automation.
  • Serve as the operational owner of the existing CLM and lead requirements gathering for future legal technology.
  • Maintain corporate records, governance calendars, and support board/committee meetings, filings, and entity administration.
  • Maintain a consolidated compliance calendar covering policies, training, audits, certifications, filings, assessments, and recurring reviews.
  • Coordinate compliance projects across Legal, Security, Engineering, Product, Finance, People, and other operational owners.
  • Support the legal and administrative components of SOC 2, CMMC, privacy, accessibility, AI governance, and similar initiatives.
  • Maintain policy inventories, review cycles, approval records, version histories, and employee acknowledgments.
  • Maintain Legal playbooks, standard operating procedures, decision trees, training materials, precedents, and internal guidance.
  • Coordinate cross-functional Legal projects and ensure that decisions, owners, deadlines, and follow-up actions are documented.
  • Serve as a responsive point of contact for questions regarding Legal processes, intake, contract status, signatures, records, and documentation.
  • Train employees on Legal systems and workflows.

You may be a good fit if you have
  • 5+ years in legal operations, senior paralegal, corporate governance, contract operations, or compliance operations, ideally in-house at a tech/software/AI company.
  • A track record of designing and owning processes, not just administering existing ones.
  • Experience with a CLM or matter-management system, contract repositories/metadata/renewals, and corporate governance recordkeeping.
  • Experience tracking outside-counsel budgets, invoices, or matter data.
  • Strong project management across functions, high attention to detail, and good judgment on when to escalate to an attorney.
  • Comfort with confidential and privileged information, and the ability to work autonomously while keeping Legal leadership informed.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Paralegal certificate, project management credential, or legal-ops certification.
  • Experience with SpotDraft, Ironclad, DocuSign, HubSpot, Carta, or similar applications.
  • Experience supporting privacy, security, AI, or accessibility compliance programs (SOC 2, CMMC, GDPR).
  • Experience supporting an international business or a venture-backed Series B/C company.


Benefits and Perks

An open and inclusive culture and work environment

Work closely with a collaborative, mission-driven team on cutting-edge AI technology

Full health, dental, and vision benefits

Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years

Monthly wellness stipend

Annual Learning & Development stipend to invest in your growth

Global offices in San Francisco and Seoul, and coworking office memberships for remote team members

🛂 VISA support where applicable

🚆 Transportation stipend (SF onsite only)

🍲 Daily lunch & dinner provided (SF onsite only)

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