What You’ll Be Expected To Do

•  Create processes and practices to improve the day-to-day effectiveness and efficiency of Verkada’s growing legal team
• Develop and drive the implementation and use of appropriate systems, processes, and tools to provide the business with most efficient and cost-effective legal work
• Improve existing technology tools, and implement new ones when necessary, to enable streamlined team collaboration and workflow automation for Verkada’s legal team
• Facilitate the systems, processes, and platforms for selecting and managing external legal vendors
• Own and manage Verkada’s electronic billing platform for legal vendors and its reporting of key metrics regarding legal spend
• Create scalable processes to help legal and business teams process, review, execute, manage, and maintain a wide variety of legal documentation related to sales, procurement, compliance, intellectual property, litigation, regulatory, and other legal matters 
• Manage Verkada’s  contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, systems, and toolsEnable Verkada’s sales teams to navigate the company’s CLM platform, systems, and tools and operationalize requirements from legal and sales policies
• Own and manage Verkada’s patent program, including systems and tools to track and report on patent prosecution and acquisition events and deadlines
• Help design, manage, and facilitate legal training programs for the legal department and relevant cross functional teams

What An Ideal Background Looks Like

• 5+ years of legal operations manager experience or in a similar role owning the legal operations function at a fast paced company (experience in a technology company or startup is a plus but not required)
• Industry expertise in the evolving landscape of legal operations and regulations with experience spotting emerging trends and new issues
• Deep understanding and experience with a variety of technical systems and tools utilized by in-house law departments, including especially CLM, legal billing, and patent program systems (experience with IronClad and BrightFlag is especially useful)
• Experience with a wide variety of workflow automation tools, project and taks management tools, and other matter management platforms (experience with Google Workspace, Monday.com, Asana, Front, and other similar platforms is especially useful)
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to drive operational excellence in complex legal environments