Remote Legal Operations Manager

Step Up For Students; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Benefits

Remote Work Options

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Step Up For Students is seeking a Legal Operations Manager to design, optimize, and lead the operational infrastructure of the Legal Department. You will partner with the General Counsel to oversee systems, workflows, analytics, and governance to support efficient legal service delivery.

Your role includes strategy execution for matter management, budget oversight, contract and policy tracking, and cross-functional collaboration across Finance, IT, and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in business, finance, IT, data analysis, project management, or paralegal work.
• Experience with fintech, legal tech, or technology-enabled regulated businesses is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Legal Operations Management: Manage day-to-day operations of the Legal department, ensuring priorities and deliverables are organized.
• Project & Matter Tracking: Create a centralized tracker for legal matters, projects, deadlines, owners, and status updates.
• Reporting, Analytics & Performance Metrics: Develop dashboards and KPIs to support data-driven decisions by General Counsel.
• Workflow & Process Improvement: Establish standardized intake processes, approvals, documentation, and escalation procedures.
• Outside Counsel & Budget Management: Track outside counsel engagements, spend, invoices, and budgeting.

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field

Job description

Step Up For Students is seeking a Legal Operations Manager to design, optimize, and lead the operational infrastructure of the Legal Department. You will partner with the General Counsel to oversee systems, workflows, analytics, and governance to support efficient legal service delivery.

Your role includes strategy execution for matter management, budget oversight, contract and policy tracking, and cross-functional collaboration across Finance, IT, and Compliance.