Legal Operations / Paralegal

Surge AI; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge AI in Oregon seeks a seasoned Legal Operations / Paralegal to run day-to-day legal functions, manage filings, deadlines, and vendor relations, and build scalable workflows with AI support.

You will work directly with the General Counsel to optimize processes, improve governance, and oversee budgeting and billing while supporting a fast-moving AI company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations or as a corporate paralegal in law firms or in-house.
• Strong organization and ability to manage multiple priorities without missing deadlines.
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, or billing and ensuring accuracy in processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage corporate filings and records with government agencies to obtain documents and approvals.
• Track legal deadlines, renewals, and obligations to ensure nothing is missed.
• Oversee intake of legal requests and monitor status—who owns what next.
• Improve legal processes and document workflows to increase efficiency.
• Forecast and oversee the legal budget, including review of outside counsel invoices.
• Manage legal vendors and billing processes.
• Evaluate and implement legal technology and build AI-enhanced workflows.
• Support lawyers and other team members on urgent matters as needed.

Skills

Legal operations

Corporate paralegal

Vendor management

Budgeting

AI workflows

Tools

Legal tech tools

AI tooling

Job description

About Us

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence - curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with the AI models you use every day.At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn’t just about scaling compute - it’s about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. We’ve run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

As Legal Operations / Paralegal at Surge, you’ll keep our legal function running. You’ll handle the day-to-day work, from corporate filings to deadline tracking to vendor management, and you’ll build the processes and tools that help a growing legal team stay organized. You’ll work directly with our General Counsel and the rest of the legal team.

This role is ideal for a corporate paralegal or legal operations professional who is detail-oriented, likes fixing and creating processes, and is excited to build with AI tools.

What You’ll Do

• Manage corporate filings and records, and follow up with government agencies and other organizations to get documents and approvals.
• Track legal deadlines, renewals, and obligations across the company, so nothing is missed.
• Run how legal requests come in and get handled, so the team can see what’s open, who owns it, and what’s next.
• Improve legal processes and workflows, and document them.
• Forecast and oversee the legal budget, including review of outside counsel invoices.
• Manage legal vendors and billing.
• Evaluate, set up, and run legal technology, and build new workflows with AI tools where they help.
• Support the lawyers on matters as needed.

What We’re Looking for

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations or as a corporate paralegal, at a law firm, in-house, or both.
• Experience with corporate filings and governmental follow-up, and a reliable system for tracking deadlines.
• Strong organization. You can run many things at once and nothing slips.
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, or billing review.
• Familiarity with legal tech tools, and an interest in using AI to build better workflows. Experience building with AI tools is a plus.
• Clear written communication and good judgment with confidential information.
• Comfortable building process in a fast-moving environment, and willing to figure things out as you go.