Remote Legal Ops Lead: Vendor & Spend Management

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 149,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Legal Operations Manager, Vendor & Spend Management to own the vendor spend oversight and budget strategy for the Legal, Policy, and Compliance departments.

You will drive cost controls, e-billing processes, and data-driven budgeting at scale. The role interfaces with FP&A to optimize invoicing, accruals, and month-end close, and requires experience with high-growth technology environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience at a comparable in-house legal practice.
• Deep vendor and law firm spend management experience, including hands-on experience with e-billing platforms, law firm panel programs, and negotiating alternative fee arrangements.
• Experience independently managing legal budgets, accruals, and forecasting processes in partnership with FP&A, including driving high law firm compliance rates for monthly accruals.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and improve operational processes at scale, including vendor onboarding workflows, billing guidelines, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience building reports and dashboards that translate spend data into actionable insights for legal leadership decision-making.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own expense management, law firm and vendor spend oversight, and annual budget planning for the Legal, Policy, and Compliance departments, delivering accurate forecasting and cost visibility to leadership.
• Own expense management, law firm and vendor spend oversight, and annual budget planning for the Legal, Policy, and Compliance departments, building automated accrual models and leveraging predictive spend analytics to deliver accurate forecasting and cost visibility to leadership.
• Drive the legal e-billing program end-to-end, including vendor and contractor onboarding, billing guideline enforcement, engagement letter review, and conflicts of interest processes.
• Build and maintain a top-tier law firm panel program and spend optimization strategy, including benchmarking billing rates, negotiating alternative fee arrangements, and evaluating firm performance against delivery and cost targets.
• Partner with legal department leadership on budget strategy, advising on law firm selection, resource allocation, and cost-reduction opportunities backed by spend data and trend analysis.
• Lead the relationship with FP&A on invoicing, accruals, and month-end financial processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness across all legal vendor-related financial workflows.
• Administer and optimize the legal e-billing system, training stakeholders on processes and use of systems, and identifying opportunities to improve workflows and data quality.

Skills

Vendor spend management

Law firm spend oversight

Budget forecasting

e-billing platforms

Data analytics

Generative AI responsibly

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Brightflag

ERP systems

FP&A systems

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Legal Operations Manager, Vendor & Spend Management to own the vendor spend oversight and budget strategy for the Legal, Policy, and Compliance departments.

You will drive cost controls, e-billing processes, and data-driven budgeting at scale. The role interfaces with FP&A to optimize invoicing, accruals, and month-end close, and requires experience with high-growth technology environments.