Legal Operations Architect: Cross-Function Transformation

APT Search; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured learning

Wellbeing fund

Home office allowance

Mental health support

Job summary

APT Search seeks a Legal Operations Consultant to join a hybrid, permanent full-time team in Melbourne or Sydney. The role entails working across multiple in-house legal functions on operating models, processes, resourcing and the technology and AI underlying them.

You will deliver end‑to‑end legal operations projects within multidisciplinary teams, design and facilitate workshops, and translate legal and business needs into actionable digital solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal operations or legal transformation.
• Exposure to legal operating model design, process improvement, or resourcing strategy.
• Working grasp of legal technology and AI landscape.
• Data analysis and visualization capabilities.
• Clear communication with legal and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver legal operations projects end to end as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• Analyse how a client's legal function works today and where the friction sits.
• Help design and facilitate workshops that turn complex ideas into actionable plans.
• Apply legal engineering principles to translate requirements into digital solutions.
• Build client-facing material from analysis to recommendations.
• Support client relationships and contribute to proposals and pitches.

Skills

Legal operations

Data analysis

Clear communication

AI / Legal tech awareness

Client-facing delivery

Workshop design

Job description

APT Search seeks a Legal Operations Consultant to join a hybrid, permanent full-time team in Melbourne or Sydney. The role entails working across multiple in-house legal functions on operating models, processes, resourcing and the technology and AI underlying them.

You will deliver end‑to‑end legal operations projects within multidisciplinary teams, design and facilitate workshops, and translate legal and business needs into actionable digital solutions.