Legal Operations Lead: Automate Contracts & Systems

Hud; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Lunch & dinner in office

Holiday break

Equinox membership

401k

Commuter benefits

Unlimited AI tokens

Job summary

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, plus a marketplace for partners. You’ll own the end-to-end legal operating system, draft and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, NDAs, and vendor agreements, and improve templates to speed issues while managing risk.

This is a hands-on, operator-focused role: work with legal tech and AI to automate workflows, while keeping human review for judgement-heavy matters.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal operations, contracts management, commercial operations, transactional legal work, or a combination of these at a fast-growing technology company
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial technology agreements, with the judgment to distinguish routine issues from matters that require specialist legal advice
• Comfort working with legal technology, workflow tools, and AI, and an interest in using them to make legal work materially faster and more scalable
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance legal risk against speed, customer needs, and business priorities
• Excellent written communication, attention to detail, and the confidence to push back constructively on sophisticated customers, vendors, and internal stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end operating system for legal at HUD, including intake, prioritization, contracting workflows, approvals, escalation paths, document management, and outside-counsel coordination
• Draft, review, and negotiate routine commercial agreements across buyers, data vendors, and other partners, including MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, SLAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, and other bespoke arrangements
• Build and continuously improve templates and negotiation playbooks so recurring issues such as data rights and usage restrictions can be handled quickly and consistently
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline high-volume legal workflows using software and AI, while preserving appropriate human review for judgment-heavy issues
• Establish clear rules for what should be handled internally, what can be standardized or automated, and what should be escalated to founders or outside counsel
• Manage outside counsel strategically, including scoping work, preparing issues efficiently, controlling legal spend, and ensuring external lawyers are used primarily for high-value or specialist questions

Skills

Legal operations

Contracts management

Transactional legal work

Business operations

Tools

Legal tech tools

AI in legal workflows

Job description

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, plus a marketplace for partners. You’ll own the end-to-end legal operating system, draft and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, NDAs, and vendor agreements, and improve templates to speed issues while managing risk.

This is a hands-on, operator-focused role: work with legal tech and AI to automate workflows, while keeping human review for judgement-heavy matters.