5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or corporate paralegal role, ideally in a tech environment
Proven track record of building and documenting processes from scratch
Experience with configuring workflows and templates in Ironclad or similar CLM
Familiarity with AI tools and understanding their benefits and risks
Strong judgment on escalation and handling of legal matters
Responsibilities
Build and maintain contract operations, including lifecycle management workflows
Design legal intake processes for routing internal legal requests
Enhance legal function efficiency using AI and appropriate tooling
Manage corporate administration and record-keeping tasks
Serve as the point person for corporate compliance and entity management
Support stock administration and maintain cap table accuracy
Oversee outside counsel and manage legal expenditures
Benefits
Opportunity to shape and build legal operations from the ground up
Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
Fast-paced, high-growth company culture
Direct reporting to the General Counsel
Potential for significant impact on the legal team's efficiency
Full Job Description
The Role:
We're looking for a Legal Operations Lead to join us as the first dedicated legal operations hire at Modal. You'll own the systems, records, and workflows that let a small legal team keep pace with a high-growth tech company - and you'll have an opportunity to build most of them from scratch.
This is a great fit for a highly organized, systems-oriented operator who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to build operational foundations, not just maintain them. You'll report to our General Counsel and collaborate closely with the Finance, BizOps, GTM, and People teams.
In this role, you will:
Build and maintain contract operations, including designing the contract lifecycle management workflows and approval logic, and continuing to iterate and improve those processes
Design legal intake process to support and route legal requests from internal stakeholders
Make the legal function faster with AI and build and configure tooling to make us more efficient
Manage corporate administration and record-keeping, including Board and stockholder matters, signature coordination, and building a knowledge management system and database
Be the point person for corporate compliance, including entity management and filings, including foreign and domestic qualifications and filings and coordinate with registered agents
Support stock administration and cap table hygiene
Manage outside counsel and legal spend
Requirements:
5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or a corporate paralegal role, preferably at a high-growth technology company
Demonstrated ability to build and document processes from the ground up, not just execute existing ones
Experience configuring workflows and templates within Ironclad or a similar CLM
Experience with AI tools, and good instincts about where they help and where they quietly introduce risk
Sound judgment about what to handle and what to escalate
Bonus:
Exposure to corporate and equity administration; familiarity with Carta or a similar equity administration platform
