Senior Legal Operations Specialist
About InterDigital
InterDigital is a global research and development company focused primarily on wireless, video, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and related technologies. We design and develop foundational technologies that enable connected, immersive experiences in a broad range of communications and entertainment products and services. We license our innovations worldwide to companies providing such products and services, including makers of wireless communications devices, consumer electronics, IoT devices, cars and other motor vehicles, and providers of cloud-based services such as video streaming. As a leader in wireless technology, our engineers have designed and developed a wide range of innovations that are used in wireless products and networks, from the earliest digital cellular systems to 5G and today’s most advanced Wi-Fi technologies. We are also a leader in video processing and video encoding/decoding technology, with a significant AI research effort that intersects with both wireless and video technologies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on Nasdaq.
InterDigital is a registered trademark of InterDigital, Inc.
For more information, visit: www.interdigital.com.
Summary
This position operates at the intersection of legal operations, project management, and litigation support, with a focus on executing core processes and continuously improving upon them to empower department operations and litigation. This position will be based in InterDigital’s Wilmington, Delaware office and will report to the Head of Legal Operations.
The successful candidate must have: five or more years of previous experience working within a Legal Department; knowledge of legal e-billing tools and processes; strong communication skills; passion for rendering customer-service oriented support; and the ability to think critically, problem-solve, meet deadlines, manage competing priorities and deliver high quality work product. This role requires someone who thrives in a fast paced, dynamic culture with many challenges and opportunities and is execution-focused, detailed oriented and exceptional at working cross-functionally with professionals throughout the InterDigital organization.
Responsibilities
Job Functions: The position incumbent will be responsible for carrying out the following functions and tasks:
Legal Invoicing & Vendor Management – 30%
- Provide the day-to-day management of matters in Legal Tracker, including new matter creation, first level review of invoices, and report creation.
- Ensure a timely and smooth onboarding process for new legal vendors.
- Provide the primary day-to-day support and resolution of questions, errors, or other issues for legal vendors (e.g., law firms, experts, legal service providers).
- Active collaboration and communication with colleagues in finance, accounting, information systems, patents and legal globally.
Legal Project Management – 40%
Provide project management support for Legal Department process and technology initiatives as directed by the Head of Legal Operations.
This may include:
- Developing and maintaining project plans, timelines, and status reporting.
- Fostering collaboration and accountability across stakeholders to ensure timely execution.
- Applying structured problem-solving and prioritizing action to keep projects moving forward
- Champion technology solutions, automation, and AI-driven tools to improve quality, efficiency, and scalability.
- Actively identify inefficiencies, and support process improvement initiatives
- Document and standardize processes to enable consistency and knowledge sharing.
- Support training and enablement for new systems, processes and workflows.
Litigation Support – 30%
Provide support to the InterDigital Litigation Team that includes the following:
- Active management of team communications, organization, and filing of legal pleadings
- Support the management of document collections and discovery processes, coordinating with internal teams, outside counsel, and vendors
- Facilitating legalizations and coordinating notarizations of corporate documents as needed
- Communicating with outside counsel, experts and consultants as instructed
- Performing legal research or preparing documents as instructed
Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of previous experience working within a corporate legal department, law firm, or legal service provider as a paralegal and/ or in a legal operations role, preferably in litigation, the technology sector or a highly regulated industry.
- A minimum education requirement of an Associate’s Degree. A Paralegal certification and/or Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and deliver high quality work-product, balancing a high level of attention to detail with timely execution
- Experience operating with attention to detail and rendering customer-service oriented support
- A curious mindset, adaptable approach, and independent problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency with legal technology, with knowledge and experience using legal e-billing tools, preferably Legal Tracker.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, as well as AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Gemini).
- A minimum of 3 years of legal project management experience. PMP certification preferred.
Location : Wilmington, Delaware Preferred; 3 days in the office required.
InterDigital is an equal employment opportunity employer. InterDigital will not engage in or tolerate unlawful discrimination with regard to any employment decision, policy or practice based on a person’s sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), age, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, assignments, evaluations, coaching, promotion, discipline, discharge and layoff.
