Senior Legal Operations Associate
RemoteAbout the role
About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
What this job can offer you
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Legal Operations Senior Associate, joining our Legal Team, joining our Legal team to help us propel our team mission, namely: supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and solid legal processes and reporting to the Legal Ops Manager.
As a senior member of the Legal Ops function, you'll play a critical role in building and scaling the infrastructure, workflows, and technology that enable the Legal team to operate efficiently and deliver high-impact service across the business. You’ll own key initiatives, collaborate cross-functionally, and serve as a go-to expert on how Legal work gets done. Your work will directly support Remote’s rapid international growth and our Legal team’s mission to deliver excellent legal advice through scalable, automated, and user-friendly processes.
This role sits at the intersection of operations, technology, and legal enablement, and is ideal for someone with a legal background who thrives in systems thinking, project management, and process design.
Remote's well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.
Remote’s Legal Team is responsible for delivering pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and services, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. As Remote adds new products to the platform and rapidly scales its new and existing customer base, so too does the volume and complexity of legal issues. Each new venture, customer, or external employee could bring a myriad of legal issues across 90+ jurisdictions.
What You Bring
- Experience in legal operations, paralegal, legal project management, or similar roles within an in-house legal team, law firm, or legal tech environment
- Demonstrable ownership of legal operations or enablement projects with measurable impact (e.g. intake system optimization, legal request triage, external counsel process improvement)
- Strong organizational, project management, and stakeholder coordination skills
- Experience working with legal tech tools and productivity platforms (Needed: Zapier, Notion, Slack, Sigma, GDrive)
- Strong programming knowledge (e.g. Python or JavaScript, Elixir a plus), experienced in working with Git, logic control flow, API integrations, and webhook automation.
- Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (CLM), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), task management systems (experience with Zendesk is not mandatory but is a plus).
- Familiarity with legal workflows including contract management, external counsel coordination, and internal knowledge bases
- Expertise in working with data and metrics reporting
- A collaborative, proactive, customer-centric, and analytical mindset, with an eye for solving inefficiencies and enabling legal service delivery at scale.
- Comfort with a remote-first, fast-moving, cross-functional work environment
- Writes and speaks fluent English with excellent communication skills
- As a Legal Ops Sr. Associate in the Legal department, you will provide vital support for the entire legal team, including Employment Specialists and Data Protection.
- Reporting to the Legal Ops Manager, you will play an instrumental part in defining and evolving the Legal Operations function at Remote—enabling efficient legal service delivery, leveraging technology and automation (including AI), and ensuring a seamless, positive stakeholder experience (“LUXops”). Your work will help empower our legal professionals and drive the continued growth and excellence of the team.
Key Responsibilities
Legal Task & Project Coordination
- Own and manage Remote Legal’s in
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