Legal Operations Manager

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

The Legal Operations Manager will play a crucial role helping our Legal team build a scalable and resilient operational legal infrastructure to support the Company’s continuing growth. More specifically, the Legal Operations Manager will focus on contract lifecycle management, corporate governance (in particular overseeing our subsidiaries and managing our intercompany agreements), outside counsel management, and other key areas of administrative support. In particular, this role will help us utilize technology and build processes to help us reliably manage our complex legal requirements in a manageable, efficient, and ultimately scalable way. We are looking for a candidate who has a background as a paralegal, and can additionally pitch in with routine matters under the supervision of the Head of Legal, including review of routine contracts and assisting with filing and docketing.

Requirements

• Background as a paralegal
• Knowledgeable about contract management
• Understanding of corporate governance principles
• Familiarity with outside counsel management
• Systems thinking and project management skills
• Detail-oriented and able to work quickly

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage Oklo’s contract lifecycle management system, including configuring templates and systems (and keeping them updated), building workflows, and generating meaningful analytics and data on Oklo’s overall end-to-end legal activity.
• Oversee corporate governance requirements for Oklo’s subsidiaries, including tracking required filings, registrations, and intercompany agreements.
• Ensure all of Oklo’s board and corporate governance documents are up to date.
• Develop process to track outside counsel spend by matter, to manage pre-approved budgets, and to obtain accurate monthly accruals from each of our law firms.
• Work with our Head of Legal to develop and implement Outside Counsel Guidelines.
• Build a structured repository for all Legal files and records, and keep the repository updated.
• Help to maintain internal legal trainings and resources.
• Assist with review of routine contracts, NDAs, MOUs, PPAs, etc.
• Assist with submission and docketing of various legal filings (for example required SEC filings).

Competencies

• Comfortable supporting a range of legal needs, including contract management, subsidiary governance, outside counsel billing and budgeting, legal knowledge management, etc.
• Deeply knowledgeable about the current state of legal technology, and how to best use technology to solve for legal department needs
• A systems thinker that is comfortable both building for the long-term (and project managing cross-functional tasks to completion) and rolling their sleeves up to get things done in the short term
• Willing to think creatively: knowledgeable about how other teams approach legal department needs, but excited to think creatively and critically about the problems they are solving and to try new approaches
• Detail-oriented while moving lightning fast
• Passionate