Director, Legal Operations

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits. 

For this high functioning team, the nature of the work benefits from frequent in-office presence, and employees may be expected to work from a company office up to four days per week. While we remain committed to flexibility, this team’s rhythm includes regular in-person connection to support collaboration, learning, and impact.

The Legal Department provides core legal support to all Dolby functions, runs several IP-centric businesses, and leads government relations.

The Director of Legal Operations is a strategic leader responsible for enabling a high-performing, data-driven, and technology-enabled Legal organization. This role oversees the operational infrastructure supporting Dolby's global Legal organization and partners closely with executive leaders across Legal, Finance, IT, People & Places, Security, and business functions.

The Director will lead a team of legal operations professionals and serve as a catalyst for operational excellence, transformation, and organizational effectiveness. This role will drive the Legal department's strategy, planning, communications, technology roadmap, vendor management, knowledge management capabilities.

A critical aspect of this role is identifying, implementing, and scaling emerging technologies, including generative AI and legal-specific artificial intelligence solutions, to enhance productivity, improve decision-making, reduce risk, and enable the department to focus on higher-value work.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of operational rigor, business acumen, change leadership, and demonstrated success leveraging technology and AI to transform legal service delivery in a complex global environment.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing legal operations team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Build organizational capability in legal technology, process improvement, analytics, and AI adoption.

Strategic Planning & Transformation

• Partner with Legal leadership to define and execute the department's long-term strategic roadmap.
• Drive change management initiatives that improve organizational effectiveness, scalability, and employee experience.
• Establish annual objectives, key results, metrics, and operational priorities aligned with business goals.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts across legal processes, services, and operating models.

AI, Automation & Technology Innovation

• Develop and lead the Legal organization's technology and AI strategy.
• Identify, evaluate, implement, and govern legal technology platforms, including contract lifecycle management, e-billing, matter management, intellectual property systems, document automation, knowledge management, and AI-enabled legal solutions.
• Champion responsible adoption of generative AI tools and workflows to improve efficiency, knowledge retrieval, contract review, legal research, matter management, drafting, and reporting.
• Establish governance, risk management, security, compliance, and ethical use frameworks for AI-enabled legal technologies.
• Partner with IT, Security, and Privacy teams to ensure legal technology solutions meet enterprise standards.
• Monitor emerging legal technology and AI trends and recommend innovative solutions that create measurable business value.

Operational Excellence

• Design and implement scalable processes, policies, and operating procedures that improve efficiency, service quality, and risk management across the Legal function.
• Create and maintain operational frameworks that support a growing global legal organization.
• Lead departmental planning, resource allocation, and operational governance activities.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Partner with Business Operations to oversee the Legal department's budget, forecasting, accrual management, and financial planning processes, including identifing cost optimization