Senior Specialist, Paralegal

BNY Mellon; Florida; On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a motivated analyst to collaborate with attorneys in designing and deploying customized AI solutions within the Legal Department. The role includes supporting governance, data analytics, and reporting to enhance contracting processes and risk management.

You will engage with business teams, external counsel, and sourcing partners to optimize legal tech platforms and data quality, while helping drive adoption of innovative workflows across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in a paralegal, analyst, or legal operations role.
• Strong data analytics skills with structured and unstructured data.
• Demonstrated or strong curiosity in AI, automation, and legal innovation.
• Comfort with technology platforms and digital workflows.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with attorneys to design, develop, and manage BNY Legal's AI solutions.
• Support firmwide AI governance efforts, including intake triage and issue tracking.
• Perform data analytics and reporting to support transactional work and risk management.
• Assist in administration, optimization, and adoption of legal tech platforms.
• Communicate with stakeholders to support contracting, vendor management, and governance initiatives.

Skills

Data analytics

Legal operations

AI/Automation

Communication

Prioritization

Job description

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Collaborating with attorneys to design, develop, and manage BNY Legal's custom-built AI solutions to modernize the Legal Department's operations, including developing an Agentic AI workflow to support contracting and negotiations.
• Supporting BNY's firmwide AI governance efforts, including intake triage, issue tracking, workflow coordination, and maintaining governance documentation.
• Performing data analytics and reporting to support transactional work, including extracting, analyzing, and presenting insights on contracts and trends, and partnering with attorneys and business clients to maintain and enhance datasets, dashboards, and reporting used for risk management and strategic decisionmaking.
• Supporting the administration, optimization, and adoption of legal technology platforms, including CLM systems, contract repositories, analytics tools, and custom-built AI solutions.
• Communicating and coordinating with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including business teams, sourcing, and external counsel, to support contracting processes, vendor management, data quality, and related governance initiatives.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• Experience in a paralegal, analyst, or legal operations role, preferably within a corporate or financial services environment.
• Strong data analytics skills, including experience working with structured and unstructured data, spreadsheets, reporting tools, dashboards, or legal analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated experience or strong curiosity in AI, automation, and legal innovation.
• High degree of comfort working with technology platforms and digital workflows.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and proactive mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective communicator and collaborator.
• Experience supporting contracting, negotiations, or third-party governance is beneficial.