Interim Legal Program Manager

Major, Lindsey & Africa; United States; Remote; USD 73,873 - 105,214; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an interim Legal Program Manager with a strong compliance background for a full-time role. The position is remote, requiring 32 to 40 hours per week with responsibilities such as enhancing compliance programs, engaging stakeholders, coordinating audits, and delivering training. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in legal program management along with relevant compliance certifications. This role has a pay rate of $65 per hour, offering the potential to evolve into a permanent position.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a legal program management role.
• Experience with audit readiness and preparation.
• Proven equivalent experience in compliance functions.

Responsibilities

• Engage collaboratively with stakeholders across various teams.
• Support maturation of legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance programs.
• Lead compliance initiatives from assessment to remediation.
• Enhance compliance programs to streamline processes and reduce risks.
• Coordinate internal and external audit readiness activities.
• Create and communicate company compliance policies and standards.
• Partner with teams to ensure compliance for new products.
• Maintain compliance workflows for evidence collection and monitoring.
• Translate technical compliance findings to business-friendly reports.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for compliance issues.
• Deliver compliance training programs.
• Support compliance metrics tracking as needed.

Skills

Compliance knowledge

Stakeholder management

High emotional intelligence

GRC tools knowledge (e.g. OneTrust)

Audit readiness

Education

Relevant certification in compliance

Job description

Overview

Our client is seeking an interim Legal Program Manager with a Compliance background. This assignment is a 3+ month initial period with the potential to extend duration, and possibly transition into a permanent role. The role is anticipated to be full-time with a minimum of 32 to 40 hours per week.

Company

Technology Industry Company

Experience

5+ years

Location

REMOTE

Responsibilities

• Collaborative approach to engagement, high EQ, able to work well with broad set of stakeholders; i.e., across Legal, Security, IT, Product, Engineering, and Governance, Risk and Compliance(GRC)-focused teams, etc. to enable consistent, scalable compliance practices.
• Support maturation of the company’s overall legal, privacy, and regulatory compliance programs.
• Support and lead aspects of compliance initiatives (e.g., privacy laws, regulatory requirements, audit frameworks) from gap assessment through remediation and certification readiness.
• Support enhancement of the compliance program as a true operational function — improving processes, reducing risks, and driving continuous optimization.
• Coordinate all internal and external audit readiness activities, ensuring evidence, documentation, and controls are in place.
• Create, update, and communicate company compliance policies, standards, and procedures in partnership with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Product.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure “compliance by design” for new products, releases, and market launches.
• Build and maintain compliance workflows that streamline evidence collection, regulatory responses, and ongoing monitoring.
• Translate technical compliance and audit findings into clear, business‑friendly reports for executives and leadership.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis for compliance issues and support incident response involving privacy or regulatory obligations.
• Knowledge of GRC tools (e.g., OneTrust) to support workflows, data mapping, assessments, and compliance tracking as needed.
• Able to deliver compliance training programs and maintain internal compliance documentation, wikis, and knowledge bases.
• Awareness of risk management frameworks and approaches.
• Potentially support the tracking and reporting of compliance metrics (KPIs/KRIs) as the organization matures
• Potentially support Sales and Business Development by maintaining approved compliance/security responses for customer RFIs and RFPs.
• Complete other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience, preferably in legal program management
• Audit readiness and preparation experience
• Relevant certification, or proven equivalent experience in compliance function

Pay rate: $65

Information regarding benefits can be found on MLA’s Website on the Consultant Resources Page: https://www.mlaglobal.com/en/consultant-resources

All interested and qualified candidates should apply directly with Major, Lindsey & Africa for review and consideration.

Major, Lindsey & Africa does not discriminate against applications on the basis of age, sex, race or any other protected characteristics pursuant to applicable state or federal laws.