Senior Legal Operations Associate

Remote; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global HR solutions provider is seeking a Legal Operations Senior Associate to enhance their legal processes and project workflows. This pivotal role involves overseeing the legal operations function, collaborating with various teams to streamline processes, and utilizing legal tech tools to improve efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a background in legal operations and project management, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote work environment. Apply now to make an impact on global employment compliance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in legal operations, paralegal, legal project management, or similar roles.
• Strong organizational, project management, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to learn and master Remote's communication and legal management tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage Remote Legal’s intake, task assignment, and project workflows.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable workflows for legal requests.
• Collaborate closely with various teams to streamline processes.

Skills

Legal operations

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Data reporting

Fluent English

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Tools

Zapier

Notion

Slack

Sigma

GDrive

Zendesk

Job description

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Legal Operations Senior Associate, joining our Legal Team. You’ll help propel our team mission of supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and solid legal processes and reporting to the Legal Ops Manager.

As a senior member of the Legal Ops function, you’ll play a critical role in building and scaling the infrastructure, workflows, and technology that enable the Legal team to operate efficiently and deliver high‑impact service across the business. You’ll own key initiatives, collaborate cross‑functionally, and serve as a go‑to expert on how Legal work gets done. Your work will directly support Remote’s rapid international growth and our Legal team’s mission to deliver excellent legal advice through scalable, automated, and user‑friendly processes.

This role sits at the intersection of operations, technology, and legal enablement, and is ideal for someone with a legal background who thrives in systems thinking, project management, and process design.

Remote’s well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.

Remote’s Legal Team is responsible for delivering pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and services, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. As Remote adds new products to the platform and rapidly scales its new and existing customer base, so too does the volume and complexity of legal issues. Each new venture, customer, or external employee could bring a myriad of legal issues across 90+ jurisdictions.

What You Bring

• Experience in legal operations, paralegal, legal project management, or similar roles within an in‑house legal team, law firm, or legal tech environment
• Demonstrable ownership of legal operations or enablement projects with measurable impact (e.g. intake system optimization, legal request triage, external counsel process improvement)
• Strong organizational, project management, and stakeholder coordination skills
• Experience working with legal tech tools and productivity platforms (Needed: Zapier, Notion, Slack, Sigma, GDrive)
• Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (CLM), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), task management systems (experience with Zendesk is not mandatory but is a plus)
• Familiarity with legal workflows including contract management, external counsel coordination, and internal knowledge bases
• Expertise in working with data and metrics reporting
• A collaborative, proactive, customer‑centric, and analytical mindset, with an eye for solving inefficiencies and enabling legal service delivery at scale.
• Comfort with a remote‑first, fast‑moving, cross‑functional work environment
• Writes and speaks fluent English with excellent communication skills
• As a Legal Ops Sr. Associate in the Legal department, you will provide vital support for the entire legal team, including Employment Specialists and Data Protection.
• Reporting to the Legal Ops Manager, you will play an instrumental part in defining and evolving the Legal Operations function at Remote—enabling efficient legal service delivery, leveraging technology and automation (including AI), and ensuring a seamless, positive stakeholder experience (“LUXops”). Your work will help empower our legal professionals and drive the continued growth and excellence of the team.

Legal Task & Project Coordination

• Own and manage Remote Legal’s intake, task assignment, project board, and metrics workflows (e.g. Notion, Sigma, KissFlow, Slack, legal inbox), ensuring visibility, balance, and accountability across team members
• Serve as the go‑to person for legal work orchestration, helping the team stay focused, unblocked, and on track

Process Improvement & Workflow Design

• Lead the identification and resolution of process bottlenecks in legal service delivery
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable workflows for high‑volume request types (e.g. contract review, employee queries, data access requests)
• Track and report legal team KPIs and project progress, using dashboards and metrics to guide decision‑making

Knowledge Management & Legal Enablement

• Own and continuously improve Legal’s internal and external knowledge bases (e.g. Notion, country wikis, external counsel repository)
• Partner with legal subject matter experts to ensure guidance, playbooks, and templates are up‑to‑date and searchable
• Drive self‑service enablement initiatives to empower internal stakeholders with legal knowledge

Cross‑functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Legal sub‑teams, Product, Operations, Finance, Sales, and Compliance to streamline cross‑team processes involving Legal
• Support the rollout and adoption of legal tech and automation tools that improve collaboration and reduce turnaround time
• Manage day‑to‑day operations of external counsel relationships, including instruction, follow‑up, and fee tracking
• Support vendor onboarding and documentation processes related to legal tools and services
• Evaluate opportunities to improve cost‑efficiency and service delivery from external legal partners

Advanced Legal Ops Projects

• Own one or more strategic Legal Ops projects (e.g. contract lifecycle system rollout, AI‑based legal triage, quarterly performance reporting)
• Coordinate with Legal Ops leadership on roadmap planning and quarterly team OKRs

Additional Support

• Provide high‑quality legal research, light contract review, and vendor assessments as needed based on expertise
• Serve as a resource and mentor to junior team members on tools, templates, and processes

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Assisting with limited contract review
• Conducting legal research on a variety of topics
• Providing additional legal, advisory, and compliance support as needed

Practicals

• You will report to: Legal Ops Manager
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent‑hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide. Our base salary range for this full‑time position is $35,200 to $99,000. The salary range may be subject to change based on location, transferable or job‑related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters, including a budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces.

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life‑work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

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• If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

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