Legal Operations & Compliance Manager

Houzz Inc; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Houzz Inc is seeking a Legal Operations & Compliance Manager to enhance and maintain processes for the Legal Team. This fully remote role involves project management, compliance oversight, and collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure effective legal operations and support corporate compliance initiatives.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

Home internet stipend

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Maternity/paternity leave program

Professional Development Reimbursement Program

Qualifications

• Experience managing legal operations and compliance programs.
• Proficiency with legal management and work technology tools.
• Strong writing skills to create clear legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve Legal Team’s processes and technology.
• Oversee corporate compliance and maintain business qualifications.
• Provide project management support across multiple legal projects.

Skills

Project Management

Compliance

Data Analysis

Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

5+ years experience in legal or compliance

Tools

Ironclad

Simple Legal

Salesforce

Google Suite

Microsoft Word

Job description

About the Role

The Legal Operations & Compliance Manager will play a pivotal role in helping the Legal team perform at a high level. The person in this role will enhance and maintain the critical workstreams and infrastructure that enable Houzz’s Legal Team to accelerate the company’s continued growth and success, while also handling day-to-day tasks to support our attorneys. The role is fully remote and will report to the General Counsel.

This role involves designing, implementing, and overseeing processes, technologies, and strategies to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and overall performance of the Legal Team. You will collaborate closely with other members of the Legal Team, cross-functional stakeholders, and external vendors to drive effective legal operations. You will also use your broad understanding of in-house legal department practices and client service orientation to support the company’s corporate compliance, dispute resolution, and privacy-related matters.

About You

You are a self-starter who thrives in a dynamic environment. You understand that no two weeks may look alike at a fast-moving tech company and find energy in handling a variety of issues. You can help put out fires on a day-to-day basis, but also think long-term and build processes for the future. You enjoy and are confident in interacting with people across the organization at all levels of seniority.

What You’ll Do

• Manage Legal’s Processes, Systems, and Technology: Manage and continuously improve the Legal Team’s processes, systems, and technology including:
• Own and administer the Legal Team’s technology tools (e.g., a CLM tool like Ironclad and matter and spend management software like SimpleLegal).
• Manage workflows for the company’s NDAs, DPAs, contractor agreements, and other agreement types. Review and negotiate third-party agreements.
• Identify and implement solutions to improve knowledge management and access to information within the team and across the organization.
• Develop and oversee training and user adoption of new solutions.
• Build out internal Legal intranet pages and maintain a consistent cadence of communication relating to Legal initiatives.

• Corporate Compliance:
• Maintain business qualifications for domestic and international entities.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on routine corporate filings for entity changes.

• Data Analytics and Reporting:
• Manage contract renewal reporting process.
• Compile, analyze, and report on metrics to assess efficient utilization of Legal Team resources and achieve greater productivity, while ensuring alignment with the team’s objectives.

• Project Management:
• Provide project management support for the Legal team, including project plan development, status management, and task tracking.
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and prioritize projects along with ad hoc requests/initiatives.

• Support Privacy Program:
• Work with our Chief Privacy Officer to plan and maintain an engagement strategy, define objectives, and address privacy-related controls, risks, and issues.
• Assist with ROPA, PIA, DPA’s and other key privacy documents.
• Manage calendars for updating external and internal privacy policies and guidelines.

• Litigation & Dispute Resolution Support:
• Track and respond to a wide variety of inquiries, including from customers, regulators, and creditors (UCC notices).
• Respond to subpoenas.
• Maintain a robust template library and constantly improve on the substance of the responses.
• Support litigation and dispute resolution matters.

At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have

• A passion for legal, compliance, and privacy matters.
• 5+ years experience working on a legal or compliance team in-house or at a law firm.
• Experience with legal management tools (e.g., Ironclad, Simple Legal, Box, Salesforce, and Adobe Sign) and other work technology tools (e.g., Google Suite, Slack, and Microsoft Word).
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, business and organizational needs.
• The ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, small but growing environment and work proactively with various teams across the organization.
• Strong writing skills with a focus on creating clear, concise, and comprehensive documents and reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey legal and privacy concepts and requirements to non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal supervision in a fully remote setting.
• Experience in managing privacy programs and ensuring ongoing compliance across an organization.
• Industry privacy certifications, such as CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, or CISSP, are a bonus.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

This role has an annual starting salary range of $125,000 - $140,000. In addition to salary, you’re eligible for competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Houzz. Also, depending on the role, you could be eligible for an equity award. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including, but not limited to, skills, experience, and specific work location.

Benefits and perks include:

- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

- Home internet stipend

- Medical, dental, and vision benefits

- Maternity/paternity leave program

- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

- Professional Development Reimbursement Program

- 401(k) retirement savings plans (Pre-Tax and Roth)

- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Medical & Dependent Care

- Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution

- Healthy at Houzz program

Houzz is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. When applying for a role at Houzz, we guarantee your application will be considered regardless of your sex; race; color; gender; national origin; height or weight; ancestry; physical or mental disability; medical condition; genetic information; marital status; registered domestic partner status; age; sexual orientation; military and veteran status; or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation.

We embrace and celebrate the value that diversity brings to an organization. Diverse backgrounds and different points of view help Houzz provide the best experience for our community. Houzz is committed to fostering an inclusive environment through projects and initiatives, such as employee resource groups, that support Houzzers’ efforts to be themselves and share their lives at work.

If you would like assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [e-mail]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Houzz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veterans

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Be Who You Are and Do What You Love at Houzz

About Houzz

When founders Adi and Alon remodeled their home, they were frustrated by the lack of resources and inspiration to help them articulate a vision and select the right pro to make it a reality.

So they built Houzz.

Houzz is now the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing an all-in-one software solution for industry professionals and tools for homeowners to update their homes from start to finish. Using Houzz, people can find ideas and inspiration, hire professionals, and shop for products. Houzz Pro (houzz.com/pro) provides home industry professionals with a business management and marketing SaaS solution that helps them to win projects, collaborate with clients and teams, and run their business efficiently and profitably.

Our Mission and Core Values

We're proud to say there's no one quite like us. Houzz is a community-centric, innovative tech company that continues to disrupt the home renovation and design industry. Our mission-driven culture is rooted in our core values, and we’re all here for one purpose: make the home remodeling and design process more fun and productive for everyone.

Our Mission

To create the best experience for home renovation and design.

Our Core Values

We’re a Community

We put our community of Houzzers, industry professionals and homeowners first. We approach our work with care, humility and respect. We deliver value to our community through our products and services.

We Build the Future

We are visionaries who challenge the status quo. We are creative, innovative and curious. We embrace change and different ideas to drive our industry forward.

We Make Things Happen

We are solution-seekers and self-starters. We listen, move fast and empower our teams to deliver extraordinary results and products. We play to win.

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