Senior Manager, Legal Operations

about 2 years ago
Full time role
Seattle, WA, US... more
Seattle, WA, US... more

Job Description

Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, where even 10 years ago, most truck drivers did not have smartphones and paper driver logs were common. In 2015, Convoy launched the digital freight movement with an open and fully connected marketplace for brands and manufacturers to work directly with freight carriers who move truckload shipments throughout the country. This ‘Digital Freight Network’ is powered by machine learning and automation, and supported by a broad, ever-growing set of features that benefit both sides of the marketplace.

We’ve been honored to work with some great companies, such as Unilever, The Home Depot, and Procter & Gamble. We’ve also been backed by world-class investors, including Google, YCombinator, Fidelity, Greylock Generation, Lone Pine, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford and the founders and CEOs of Amazon, Salesforce, eBay, LinkedIn, Expedia, Dropbox, Starbucks, and others. We are proud to have been named a CNBC Disruptor 50 Winner (3x), a Fast Company World Changing Idea, a LinkedIn Top Startup, a Forbes' Best Startup Employer, one of Fortune Magazine's 'Impact 20' list, a best place to work in Washington State, a BloombergNEF Pioneer winner, and more.

This is your opportunity to collaborate with an incredible group of people and help transform the freight industry. Join Convoy and help us transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.


About the team: We are a small (6 lawyers) but mighty legal team focused on helping the Convoy move quickly and take risks smartly.  We take the time to understand our businesses and our clients, and we are trusted and valued partners with a seat at the table for important decisions. While we are focused on helping Convoy revolutionize the transportation industry, we never miss an opportunity to learn or have fun. 

About Will:

  • Manage legal operations strategy for the legal team and key results
  • Implement and manage legal team metrics, benchmarking, and reporting - you will help us develop and improve our core metrics!
  • Drive selection and management of legal solutions providers to optimize efficiency and quality
  • Work with legal team to develop metrics for measurement of outside counsel where appropriate
  • Streamline and automate processes to improve legal team efficiency
  • Manage development and improvement of contracting and other legal processes and tooling across the company (such as quote to cash or Ironclad)
  • Optimize contract lifecycle management solutions (currently Ironclad and Lexion)
  • Develop and support programs that promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across the team
  • Develop self-serve legal resources and tools for the business to access legal support quickly and efficiently
  • Review NDAs and certain other legal agreements (don’t worry, if you haven’t done this, we can help you learn this)

About You:

  • A fanatic about organizational efficiency who independently identifies and solves problems, but who is also a highly flexible creative problem solver in a complex, hypergrowth business 
  • Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills with an ability to successfully balance multiple high priority projects at the same time
  • You enjoy building things!
  • Creative thinker with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Eagerness to learn and implement new processes and technologies
  • You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty

We're looking for someone who has:

  • We would prefer a minimum 3 years of legal operations related experience, preferably building or managing legal operational programs, projects, and processes.
  • We are also interested in those with related experience in sales operations, financial operations or similar business processes 
  • Ability to think strategically while managing the details, creatively solve problems, and to make clear recommendations
  • Strong organizational, project management, and execution skills
  • Understands the contracting process and experience with contract lifecycle management is preferred, particularly in an environment with large enterprise customers
  • Experience building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships across many levels and functions within an organization
  • Bachelor’s degree
Benefits:
Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the Convoy team. Outside of offering excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits, we also offer the following: 

* On demand mental and emotional health benefits through Lyra 
* On demand primary care through 98.6
* Generous paid time off
* Paid parental leave program 
* Fertility benefit solutions via Progyny
* Child-care and adult/elder-care options through Bright Horizons
* Opportunity to join and contribute to one of our Employee Resource Groups
* Ability to make a real world impact!

Convoy is an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!

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