Legal & Compliance Operations Project Manager

Internal Revenue Service; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Project Manager for its Legal & Compliance Team in Menlo Park. This role focuses on enhancing operational workflows while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory obligations. Key responsibilities include setting strategic goals, leveraging data, and managing cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, effective communication skills, and a strong project management background.

Benefits

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Vision insurance

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in consulting, strategy, operations, or equivalent.
• Experience in the Legal, Public Policy, or Regulatory space.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Set goals and execute strategy for operational workflows.
• Build out operational processes and systems for efficient reporting.
• Negotiate and communicate trade-offs for operational decisions.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Data Analysis

Time Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Degree in Project Management, Business, Marketing, Finance, or Operations

Job description

The Product & Regulatory Operations Organizationis a vital part of our company’s commitment to user and business safety on its platforms. This team delivers operations for emerging and critical priorities across the company and Global Operations, working closely with product/engineering, legal, and cross-functional stakeholders.

The Legal & Compliance Teamensures our company’s compliance and facilitates readiness for key legal and regulatory requirements. These critical obligations impact financial matters, the developer ecosystem, intellectual property, privacy matters, and global emerging regulations. This group creates processes to mitigate risks through increasingly efficient, scalable operations and the use of cutting-edge technology.

As a Project Manager within our Legal & Compliance Team, you will help set goals and priorities for core operational workflows, measuring the health and effectiveness of enforcement and legal/regulatory notice and takedown regimes. You will set strategy for key program investments to increase efficiency and improve operational processes and maturity. You will address new and emerging risks and bring a product-driven mindset to balancing legal and regulatory obligations. A strong candidate will be highly effective at cross-functional leadership, influencing strategy, and ensuring strong workflow health and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set goals and execute strategy as a business owner for core legal & compliance operational workflows, measuring effectiveness via metrics and key performance indicators, tracking resourcing and capacity, and monitoring the overall health of the program.
• Build out and strengthen operational processes and systems to deliver efficient reporting, innovative risk mitigation, and operational health.
• Program manage opportunities, foresee challenges, predict roadblocks, strengthen cross-functional relationships, and execute plans.
• Ideate and inform the development of team goals.
• Work with team members on strategies for executing, measuring progress, and sharing results that enable the team to identify efficiency gains and improvements, while developing and partnering on upstream product-driven solutions at scale.
• Expertly negotiate, assess, and communicate trade-offs for operational decisions with the broader cross-functional team to optimize processes and increase maturity.
• Hold stakeholders accountable when progress on operational readiness is in jeopardy, while maintaining respectful relationships in difficult situations.
• Drive effective, concise, and persuasive program communications, including root cause analysis, internal/external escalations coordination, and communications to leadership, and business recommendations for broader stakeholder groups.
• Understand the company’s strategic, legal, and compliance position and deliver outcomes that are aligned with our mission and recognized as best in the industry.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in consulting, strategy, operations, or equivalent program management experience, or an educational degree in project management, business, marketing, finance, or operations, with a particular focus on legal & compliance.
• Effective critical thinking and experience leveraging data to anticipate and unblock problems and drive solutions.
• Experience in the Legal, Public Policy, or Regulatory space (including operations, audit, control/safeguard management, etc.).
• Proven time-management and organizational skills.
• Experience working with teams to develop and improve operational systems and tools.
• Experience driving collaboration of cross-functional teams, coordinating effectively, and inspiring others.
• Experience resolving conflicts by finding win-win scenarios, identifying trade-offs, and setting clear priorities.
• Experience in controlling risk and setting priorities.
• Experience communicating effectively.

Location: Onsite (NYC, Menlo Park, or Seattle)

Role type:Contract6 Months Position

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you or will you in the future require any sponsorship to work in the US?

Language:

• English (Required)