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Legal Operations Lead

Modal· G&A
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New York$160k - $210kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

First dedicated legal operations hire at Modal responsible for building and maintaining systems, records, and workflows to support a high-growth tech company’s legal functions from scratch.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Contract lifecycle managementLegal intake designAI tooling for legalCorporate administrationEntity management and filingsVendor / outside counsel management
Nice to have:Stock administration / cap table hygiene
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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