Legal Operations Consultant

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

Legal Operations Consultant - Melbourne or Sydney

Most legal operations roles put you inside one legal function. This one puts you across many. You will work with in-house legal teams on how their function actually runs: the operating model, the processes, the resourcing, and the technology and AI sitting underneath it.

The client is a global law firm with a substantial Australian practice, hiring into its legal operations advisory team.

The essentials

• Permanent, full time
• Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office

What you'll do

• 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 something a client can act on
• Apply legal engineering principles to translate legal and business requirements into working digital solutions
• Build client-facing material, from the underlying analysis through to the recommendations
• Support client relationships and contribute to proposals and pitches

What you'll need

• Legal operations or legal transformation experience, with hands‑on delivery on client projects
• Exposure to legal operating model design, process improvement or resourcing strategy
• A working grasp of the legal technology and AI landscape
• Data analysis and visualisation
• Clear communication with both legal and business stakeholders

Nice to have

• Legal engineering experience, designing or implementing technology‑enabled solutions
• Change management or design thinking training
• A consulting or professional services background

What's in it for you

• Structured learning, mentoring and on‑the‑job development
• Wellbeing fund and home office allowance
• Mental health support