[Remote] Manager - Paralegal & Legal Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blaize is building a hybrid AI platform engineered to support edge-to-cloud intelligence at scale. They are seeking an experienced Manager – Paralegal & Legal Operations to support the Legal team across corporate, commercial, compliance, and operational matters, managing legal processes and operations including contracts administration and compliance coordination.
Responsibilities
- Conduct intake, review, negotiate, organize, and administer all NDAs and potentially other template-based agreements, with assistance from attorneys where needed
- Maintain contract lifecycle management (CLM) database and ensure proper documentation, tracking, and compliance processes
- Create and manage contract execution workflows and manage legal intake requests
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, Procurement, Sales, and Operations to support legal processes and business initiatives
- Leverage AI tools and technology to streamline contract review, improve document processing, and enhance legal operations efficiency and reporting
- Assist with corporate governance activities, including Board of Directors and Committee materials and legal entity management activities
- Support compliance initiatives, policy tracking, and audit-related requests
- Help maintain organized, scalable, and audit-ready legal processes and records
- Track legal obligations, renewals, and critical deadlines
- Support dispute management, litigation coordination, legal holds, and document collection as needed
- Assist with legal research and preparation of summaries, reports, and presentations
- Maintain confidentiality and ensure proper handling of sensitive information
- Identify opportunities to improve legal workflows, document management, and operational efficiency
- Help implement scalable legal operations processes and best practices
- Support reporting, metrics, and KPI tracking for legal operations activities
Skills
- 5–8 years of legal operations, paralegal, or corporate legal support experience
- Experience supporting in-house legal teams in a start-up or similar fast-paced business environment (i.e., outside of a traditional law firm environment)
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with business and operational teams
- Strong knowledge of contract management and legal documentation processes
- Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills
- Experience working collaboratively and cross-functionally with business and operational teams
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining strong attention to detail
- Proficiency with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and Microsoft Office Suite required
- Bachelor's degree and/or Paralegal Certification
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