Legal Operations Lead

We're looking for a Legal Operations Lead to join us as the first dedicated legal operations hire at Modal. You'll own the systems, records, and workflows that let a small legal team keep pace with a high-growth tech company, and you'll have an opportunity to build most of them from scratch. This is a great fit for a highly organized, systems-oriented operator who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to build operational foundations, not just maintain them. You'll report to our General Counsel and collaborate closely with the Finance, BizOps, GTM, and People teams.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain contract operations, including designing contract lifecycle management workflows and approval logic, and continuing to iterate and improve those processes; Design a legal intake process to support and route legal requests from internal stakeholders; Make the legal function faster with AI, and build and configure tooling to make the team more efficient; Manage corporate administration and record-keeping, including Board and stockholder matters, signature coordination, and building a knowledge management system and database; Be the point person for corporate compliance, including entity management, foreign and domestic qualifications and filings, and coordination with registered agents; Support stock administration and cap table hygiene; Manage outside counsel and legal spend

Requirements

5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or a corporate paralegal role, preferably at a high-growth technology company; Experience building and documenting processes from the ground up, not just executing existing ones; Experience configuring workflows and templates within Ironclad or a similar CLM; Experience with AI tools and good judgment about where they help and where they introduce risk; Sound judgment about what to handle and what to escalate

Nice to have

Exposure to corporate and equity administration; Familiarity with Carta or a similar equity administration platform