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Position Description

We are immediately hiring an experienced Legal Operations Manager to join our dynamic team in Redwood City on a hybrid schedule.

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in optimizing legal processes, managing legal technology platforms, and supporting strategic initiatives to empower our in-house attorneys and drive operational excellence.

As a key member of the Legal Operations team, you will oversee critical systems such as contract lifecycle management (CLM), digital signature, and legal billing solutions. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Sales, Finance, Human Resources, IT, and Procurement to ensure seamless legal support across the organization.

The ideal candidate will take ownership of commercial contract workflows, corporate governance, compliance, reporting, and process improvement initiatives. Additionally, this role will provide vital support for special projects and other tasks assigned by the Associate Director of Legal Operations, with opportunities to broaden their expertise across various areas of legal operations.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced, tech-driven organization while being a force multiplier for the legal department and broader business functions.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with managing the company’s CLM platform (Ironclad), including workflow coding and creation, daily task management, and maintaining the contract repository.
• Develop and iterate on workflows to accommodate the evolving template library and optimize contract processes.
• Track contract expirations, renewals, and other key terms to ensure timely actions and compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Ensure smooth integration of CLM with other systems and platforms, including Salesforce.
• Draft, review, and process contracts for signature using our digital signature platform (AdobeSign) and ensure proper documentation.
• Support the administration, optimization and ongoing support and troubleshooting of legal technology solutions, including, but not limited to, AdobeSign and Streamline.ai.
• Identify and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to enhance efficiency usuing our legal technology solutions.
• Support cross-functional projects requiring legal operations expertise, including procurement, audit and regulatory inquiries.
• Coordinate document searches and productions for legal matters as needed.
• Manage legal billing processes with internal and external stakeholders and communications with outside counsel.
• Assist with global training initiatives to ensure company-wide alignment with legal processes and best practices.
• Develop playbooks, compliance materials, and other supporting and training documents for the legal department.
• Assist in corporate entity maintenance and management.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree; ABA paralegal certificate preferred.
• 4-6 years of experience in legal operations, contract management, or as a paralegal.
• Hands-on experience managing CLM platforms (Ironclad experience strongly preferred).
• Proven ability to design and optimize workflows and processes, with a focus on automation.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and deliver on deadlines.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in training and leading process adoption across global teams.
• Process-oriented mindset with a proactive approach to identifying and solving inefficiencies.
• High level of technical proficiency, including experience with legal tech solutions such as e-signature and legal task management platforms (AdobeSign and Streamline.ai strongly preferred)
• Experience in AdTech or a tech-driven industry preferred.

Compensation And Benefits:

Base + Bonus Compensation Range: $115,000 - $125,000

In accordance with applicable law, the above range provided is PubMatic’s reasonable estimate of the total cash compensation for this role. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units and a competitive benefits package.