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Legal Ops Specialist

About the team

The Legal team is a business enabler that supports strategic projects and aims at mitigating risks for the company and maintaining an ethical environment. Above all, we assist Wildlife by mapping and informing the relevant legal risks to support and reason the best business decision for the company. Our role is to provide innovative and skilled legal advice in a broad range of matters, such as Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Privacy, Regulatory, Compliance, Labor, Litigation, and Corporate. For that, we must know and gain expertise in all the company’s core activities. With an experienced and diverse team, we establish a direct and reliable relationship with all internal stakeholders and are recognized as a crucial part of the business. We are committed to always increase our productivity and efficiency to maintain a world-class service and provide timely legal recommendations. Finally, we are guardians of the company's long term reputation, integrity and compliance with the law. Count us to better inform decision-making process and to protect the company’s business and people.

About the role

Legal operations is the set of business activities, processes, and people that maximize an in-house legal team’s ability to protect and grow the company. It requires a wide-ranging combination of skills including strategic planning, financial management, vendor management, technology management, and legal data analytics. A legal operations leader typically reports directly to the General Counsel and serves as a chief of staff who helps legal departments get the most out of their legal budgets, legal vendors, and legal technology. The key characteristics of all legal operations specialists are:

• A strong understanding of the core business and experience in collaborating with cross-functional groups
• An ability to translate the needs of business departments into legal requirements
• A commitment to use the internal legal department to grow the company
• An ability to manage outside law firm performance
• A capacity of designing process and identifying optimizable points aspects
• A broad technical understanding of Legal tools and familiarity with operating legal software, as well as driven by data
• A critical understanding of metrics for process, considering its importance as well as limitations

Legal departments have a company-wide responsibility to protect and grow the business while also managing internal and outside counsel budgets. They face increasing pressure to do more with less Legal operations helps companies maximize their investment in their legal team, legal vendors, and legal technologies. Accordingly, Legal operations helps companies maximize their investment in their legal team, legal vendors, and legal technologies.

Who you are

We’re looking for a highly motivated, detail-oriented and seasoned project individual to come join our team as a Legal Operations Specialist, where you’ll liaise with multiple cross-functional stakeholders across the business to help identify opportunities to improve processes, share best practices, and refine the day-to-day operations of the legal department to optimize their effectiveness to the organization. As a Legal Operations Specialist, you will be responsible for owning the strategy and implementation of our legal technology solutions and act as the system admin, ensuring systems are used consistently and operating successfully. We expect you to have strong knowledge and understanding of department policies and procedures as they relate to the job function.

What you’ll do

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, share best practices, and improve efficiency within the Legal department’s organizational structure, systems, and technologies
• Build and maintain strong relationships within the Legal department, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Assist in developing strategy for Legal technology solutions, work with the team to select and implement solutions, ensure systems are used consistently and operating successfully
• Serve as Legal department admin and subject matter expert for existing legal technologies (e.g., contract management system)
• In partnership with Legal leadership, build out and report on centralized KPIs, metrics for Legal department
• Collect and analyze data from department tools and industry sources, help to define objectives, benchmarking opportunities and metrics
• Asses relevant metrics for a small and generalist Legal Department
• Develop and maintain system related documentation and training materials, updating as necessary to reflect changes implemented in process and/or system functionality due to releases or configuration changes
• Assist with managing vendors (including outside counsel) to ensure appropriate tracking and expense reporting by optimizing workflows within the legal department
• Communicate effectively and clearly with internal teams, including legal, finance, and sales
• Lead and support various ad hoc projects within the Legal department as needed
• Consistently ensure that business is conducted with integrity at all times and that behavior aligns with the company's policies, procedures, and core competencies

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build the best gaming company, where everyone thrives.