Senior Legal Technology & Operations Lead

About this role

Faire is hiring a Senior Legal Technology & Operations Lead to shape the future of how our Legal team works. You'll help define Legal's AI roadmap, uplevel the team's operating performance, and run the systems and programs that allow Legal to scale with the business.

We're looking for someone with deep familiarity across the legal technology stack and a strong track record in cross-functional program management. Success in this role requires being both a builder and an architect, pairing the ability to develop a long-term vision for world class legal operations with an operator’s willingness to drive execution and make it happen (fast).  

What you'll do

• Help define Legal’s AI roadmap, identifying workflows that can be transformed with AI, designing and maintaining new builds, guiding build v buy decisions, driving adoption, and measuring impact
• Optimize the rest of Faire's legal tech stack, including eBilling, litigation hold tooling, and matter management
• Configure, administer, and continuously improve Faire's contract lifecycle management platform, including its workflows, integrations, and reporting, and the AI-driven tools that sit on top of it
• Shape outside counsel and legal vendor strategy, supporting engagement, rate negotiation, alternative fee arrangements, accruals, and spend optimization
• Uplevel the Legal team’s operating system, supporting annual planning, defining key results and metrics, building dashboards to track progress against goals, and shaping our operating cadences 
• Serve as a project manager for high-impact legal initiatives, scoping the work, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment, map timelines, and deliver on schedule
• Build and maintain the team's knowledge infrastructure, including playbooks, templates, SOPs, and the internal hubs that make Legal workflows efficient and accessible to the business
• Spot process gaps before others see them and ship scalable solutions 

What it takes

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, and contract management 
• Significant experience using GenAI tools and developing AI powered legal workflows 
• Fluency operating at the configuration layer of CLM (e.g., Ironclad) and eBilling platforms (e.g., Brightflag or equivalent), including building and evolving workflows, integrations, and reporting
• Strong execution and project management skills, able to concurrently drive multiple work-streams and deadlines, with experience defining KRs and building dashboards a plus
• Experience shaping outside counsel engagements, rate negotiations, alternative fee arrangements, accruals, spend optimization in partnership with Finance
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluently between a legal conversation and a Finance, Sales, Product, or Engineering conversation
• Demonstrated ownership mindset and comfort navigating ambiguity

Salary Range

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $136,000 to $187,000 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.