Deputy Director & Counsel, Legal Operations

Summary of Role: 

GlobalFoundries is seeking Senior Manager, Legal Operations that will lead the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of GlobalFoundries' legal operations capabilities, with a primary focus on contract lifecycle management (CLM), legal technology, workflow automation, and AI-enabled solutions. This role will drive operational excellence across contracting processes while enabling greater efficiency, compliance, scalability, and business partnership throughout the enterprise. 

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Own and evolve GlobalFoundries' legal operations technology roadmap, including contract lifecycle management platforms, workflow automation tools, and emerging AI capabilities. 

• Lead the administration, optimization, and governance of CLM solutions, including templates, workflows, integrations, reporting, and user experience. 

• Identify, evaluate, and implement AI-enabled solutions that improve contracting efficiency, accelerate legal service delivery, and enhance business support. 

• Partner closely with Legal, IT, Procurement, Sales, Finance, and other stakeholders to streamline contracting and legal workflows across the enterprise. 

• Drive adoption of self-service contracting capabilities, automation tools, playbooks, and standardized processes that improve scalability and consistency. 

• Establish governance frameworks for legal technology and AI solutions, ensuring appropriate controls related to privacy, security, compliance, and risk management. 

• Oversee operational processes supporting commercial agreements, NDAs, procurement contracts, technology agreements, and other legal transactions. 

• Develop and monitor key operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure effectiveness, adoption, cycle times, workload trends, and business impact. 

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing cycle times, improving stakeholder experience, mitigating risk, and increasing operational efficiency. 

• Create and maintain process documentation, standard operating procedures, training materials, and governance frameworks. 

• Manage relationships with external legal technology vendors and service providers, including roadmap planning, upgrades, performance reviews, and contract management. 

• Lead cross-functional projects and change management initiatives that support the modernization and digital transformation of Legal operations. 

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Legal leadership on technology investments, process optimization opportunities, and operational strategy. 

Other Responsibilities: 

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements, and programs. 

Required Qualifications: