Legal Project Manager

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

PayPal’s Legal Operations team is seeking a Legal Project Manager to manage large outside counsel matters throughout their lifecycle to ensure they are run efficiently. In this role, they will provide world-class matter planning, firm selection support, monitoring, and reporting to optimize each project from start to finish in a cost-effective manner. The ideal candidate is a passionate legal project management professional who is organized, detail-oriented, data-driven, and proactive. They are a self-starter who enjoys closely managing and optimizing projects, improving processes, and working collaboratively on complex problems.

The Legal Operations team enables the legal department by providing strategic planning, financial management, process optimization, outside counsel management, and technology expertise. You will report to the Senior Manager of Legal Operations, responsible for overseeing outside counsel management and legal project management.

Job Description:

Your day to day:

• Manage assigned matters to maximize efficiency, with a focus on planning, monitoring, and reporting

• Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost control

• Help build and enhance the company’s legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices

• Serve as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader

• Coordinate RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs

• Drive collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders

• Build and maintain legal project management guidelines, trainings, and playbooks to support the Legal Department

• Proactively seek ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function

• Assist eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed

• Provide project support, reporting, and analysis as requested in relation to outside counsel management and legal operations

What do you need to bring:

• 5+ years of work experience in legal project management; experience in a law firm or large in-house legal team preferred

• Legal Project Manager Certification required

• High level of professionalism, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills; comfortable dealing with all levels in the organization and communic