AI-Driven Legal Operations Leader

WS Development

Newton (MA)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 125,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

WS Development is seeking an AI and Legal Operations Manager to strengthen and modernize the legal team’s operations by leading projects, managing intake, tracking, and measuring the team’s work, and helping select, implement, and drive adoption of technology and AI-enabled tools.

You will administer matter management, build Power BI dashboards, and design automations to improve efficiency and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

5+ years in a project management or legal operations role.
Experience building or maintaining operational metrics, dashboards, or reporting using Power BI or a comparable BI tool for a legal or professional services function.
Hands-on experience implementing or administering at least one AI-enabled legal tool such as an AI-assisted contract review, drafting, research, or matter management platform.
Experience with process automation using Power Automate or similar low-code tools.
Experience leading or playing a significant role in implementing a new software system or platform from selection through rollout, or in assessing organizational readiness and gathering cross-functional requirements for a larger enterprise system such as a CLM platform.

Responsibilities

Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and administration of legal technology and AI-enabled tools and own their rollout, training, and adoption across the legal team.
Drive day-to-day AI enablement by turning the team’s playbooks and standards into vetted prompts, reusable AI skills, and documented use cases and by coordinating with IT and the legal AI working group on tool access and evaluation.
Design and maintain process automations using low-code tools such as Power Automate to cut the time attorneys and paralegals spend on lower-value work.
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and executive-ready reporting on legal team performance, matter and deal status, and outside counsel and internal legal spend.
Assess organizational readiness for a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system, including cross-functional buy-in, data foundations, and resources adoption would require, and recommend timing and next steps.
Partner with the supervising attorney and the General Counsel to turn legal and operational priorities into project plans, tooling, and reporting.
Track and manage matters, deals, and tasks across SharePoint, Salesforce, and related systems, keeping status records, charts, and project plans accurate and current.
Coordinate the team’s projects to keep deliverables on schedule, capture and distribute meeting notes and action items, and communicate status proactively to legal and cross-functional partners.
Working closely with attorneys and paralegals, build, structure, and maintain the team’s knowledge base and standard procedures, including clause libraries, playbooks, SOPs, training materials, and a central index of forms and resources.
Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in leasing and commercial contract deals.