Who You Are

We are looking for another rockstar to join our fast growing legal team who has a combination of legal support skills and experience covering legal operations and contracts management. This is an exciting opportunity to help us uplevel our legal operations function with a focus on legal billing - and also be the first in-house contracts manager in our fast-moving sales and procurement environment. This role will support our current systems, processes, and dealmaking flows, as well as help build new workflows and structures to contribute to our continued growth and efficiency. If you have experience in an in-house legal department and are ready to take on new challenges, we would love to hear from you! If you enjoy building from the ground up, this role is for you! We are an “in the office” company and this role is based in our headquarters in San Mateo, CA.

What You’ll Be Expected To Do

• Legal Billing Management:
• Support Legal eBilling processes, including budget forecasting, spend management, vendor relationships, and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with billing guidelines and collaborate with finance teams to resolve any billing discrepancies.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for law firm engagement letters.
• Contracts Management:
• Assist in managing our Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool as part of our overall contract lifecycle management program.
• Organize and manage Verkada’s contract records.
• Support the legacy contract migration process into our CLM, ensuring accurate search and reporting.
• Provide frontline support for cross-functional business teams-including sales, marketing, product, sourcing, and finance on a contract-related processes.
• Be the team’s first in-house contract manager responsible for  drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of inbound and outbound contracts (from NDAs to vendor agreements to customer agreements).
• General Legal Operations Support:
• Organize and maintain legal files and documentation in Google Drive.
• Handle ad-hoc legal questions and requests from various departments.
• Provide administrative support to the legal team as needed.
• Provide support for eDiscovery processes and system management.
• Contribute to the development of enablement resources for legal and business teams.

What You’ll Need

• 2-6+ years experience as an in-house  legal operations specialist, paralegal and/or contracts manager with a proficiency in: 
  • negotiating a variety of inbound and outbound contracts (from NDAs to vendor agreements to customer agreements)
  • managing and supporting a CLM platform (preferably Ironclad)
  • managing and supporting a legal billing platform (preferably Brightflag)
  • handling various eDiscovery processes (such as legal holds, document collections, and reviews, preferably in Logikcull), and contract review
• Bachelor’s degree from a four year university
• Superior organizational skills with a keen attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity withGoogle Drive, Slack, Docusign, Asana, and MS 365
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced start-up environment

US Perks & Benefits

Verkada is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all employees and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 80% for family premiums
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• $200 monthly Commuter stipend
• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily