Senior Legal Analyst, Product

Indeed; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Indeed is recruiting for a senior legal operations role anchored in the Legal Product and Marketing team. The position emphasizes driving resolution of complex legal challenges, optimizing workflows, and advising senior leadership with strong data-driven judgment.

The role requires high attention to detail, autonomous execution, and the ability to influence across the organization in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of related experience; or 5+ years with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience.
• Ability to identify legal and business risks and recommend practical steps.
• Excellent institutional memory and ability to apply past precedents to new requests.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex legal review requests and guide prioritization based on risk and business impact.
• Lead high-risk investigations and synthesize data into strategic risk assessments and actionable recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve the legal review process and translate legal requirements into practical frameworks.

Skills

Legal analysis

Risk assessment

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

AI and automation

Attention to detail

Communication

Handling confidential information

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Our Mission

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Day to Day

You will serve as the anchor of execution for the legal department on the Legal Product and Marketing team, moving beyond personal task completion to drive functional mastery and team-level influence. In this role, you will drive the resolution of complex legal challenges, optimize departmental workflows, and influence strategic activities that extend across the broader organization.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, leveraging effective legal and business judgment to anticipate risk, navigate nuanced business needs, and recommend clear, practical paths forward. This role requires outstanding quality and analytical precision, a proven ability to identify meaningful patterns in our work, and the ability to use data to inform decisions, improve workflows, and guide others through complex issues in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex legal review requests, resolving high-stakes issues and guiding Legal Analysts or Coordinators prioritizing intake based on business impact and risk
• Lead high-risk investigations independently, synthesizing complex data into strategic risk assessments and actionable recommendations for counsel, while exercising strong judgment on when to resolve issues or elevate to attorneys or managers.
• Proactively partner with cross-functional teams to drive positive collaboration and a more efficient legal review process, translating highly technical legal requirements into practical frameworks and improving how partner teams engage with Legal on a systematic, repeatable basis.
• Own macro-project execution from conception to completion, navigating high ambiguity with full autonomy to align and lead cross-functional teams.
• Drive systemic efficiency and team impact by diagnosing workflow bottlenecks, identifying meaningful patterns and broader trends, and architecting simple, scalable solutions, automated tools, and metric-driven processes that produce measurable improvements.
• Partner with business leaders to architect compliant "yes, if" frameworks, proactively engineering solutions to clear complex roadblocks.
• Serve as a core subject matter expert by embedding with business units to influence strategy, mentoring junior analysts, guiding best practices, providing constructive feedback, and helping others navigate complex risk and business questions.

Skills/Competencies

• Requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or a minimum of 5 years with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience.
• Exercises thoughtful judgment on complex requests, identifies key legal and business risks, and recommends clear, practical next steps.
• Demonstrates excellent institutional memory; ability to apply past precedents and context to new requests to ensure a unified legal approach.
• Proven work experience in a dynamic environment in a legal or other high-stakes operational role.
• Leverages AI, automation, and data to drive systemic efficiency, remove workflow bottlenecks, and support sound decision-making.
• Possesses outstanding attention to detail and consistently produces accurate, complete, high-quality work.
• Manages one's own workload effectively and prioritizes appropriately when faced with ambiguity.
• Works seamlessly both autonomously and collaboratively while handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Showcases strong communication skills and adjusts communication effectively for different audiences, while maintaining a collaborative, service-oriented, and relationship-focused approach.
• Exhibits a collaborative, service-oriented influence and communication style.

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 - United States of America 75,000 - 113,000 USD per year

Tier 2 - United States of America 83,000 - 125,000 USD per year

At this time, we are not considering candidates for this role who are based in the following locations: California, Seattle, WA, the New York City Metro (Tri-State) area, or the Washington, DC Metro area.

Salary Range Disclaimer

The salary range for this role reflects the minimum and maximum compensation for the role. Offers are typically made between the range minimum and the range midpoint. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. The range(s) listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), a Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits. Compensation may also vary based on where a role is performed, as work locations are grouped into geographic pay tiers to reflect cost of labor differences in different geographic markets. Candidates can view geographic pay tiers by location on our career site ( https://www.indeed.com/careers/paytiers ), and recruiters can confirm how location is considered for a specific role.

Benefits – Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing

We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits !

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Inclusion & Belonging

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Those with military experience are encouraged to apply. Equivalent expertise demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education is welcome.

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AI Notice

Indeed is committed to ensuring fairness and transparency throughout our hiring process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of applicants for this position by analyzing information provided in resumes and applications. Our use of AI does not replace human decision-making.

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