Legal Operations Manager
Peregrine Technologies
Backed by leading investors from Silicon Valley, Peregrine supports public safety agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to Louisville to Atlanta — empowering public servants to improve operations and make better decisions in the moments that matter. Today, our technology is used by customers to serve more than 30 million Americans. We’re motivated to build technologies by partnering with our customers; we listen to their needs, learn from their experiences, and develop effective solutions to help them achieve transformational outcomes. Together, we’re creating safer communities, protecting privacy and civil liberties, and helping everyone in America thrive.
We are a team of public service entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving hard problems. We trust and help each other, and love diving into challenges together. We believe empathy, curiosity, integrity, courage, and excellent execution are key to building impactful software. If mission-focused work is your north star, come build with us. We’re just getting started.
The Role
We’re hiring a Legal Operations Manager to scale and support the growing legal function at Peregrine. We’re looking for a detail-oriented self-starter to partner with internal legal counsel and cross-functionally with other Peregrine teams to design, build, and improve legal operations processes and workflows to create operational efficiencies during a pivotal growth period for the Company. If you are the type of legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves to impact growth by optimizing operational excellence, this role is for you.
What You'll Do
- Drive legal technology initiatives by evaluating, implementing and maintaining tools, resources and systems to optimize legal team efficiency and excellence, including contract lifecycle, legal intake and knowledge management initiatives
- Oversee legal file management from end to end, including vendor, corporate and commercial contract records
- Maintain corporate compliance, including registrations, annual reports and related administrative filings
- Provide assistance with legal template generation and management across the organization
- Manage administration of outside counsel relationships, including tracking and review of invoices and maintenance of outside counsel roster
- Partner with cross-functional teams to create, maintain, track and record company policies (i.e. document retention practices, etc).
- Identify, design and build process improvements and change management strategies across vendor management, customer contracting and employee-facing legal workflows
- Assist General Counsel and Senior Counsel with contract drafting, administration and other ad hoc projects as needed, including in connection with business expansion across new verticals
- Create and manage legal trainings with the internal legal and cross-functional business teams
What We Look For
- 5+ years of experience in legal operations or related fields (i.e. business operations, paralegal functions), ideally within a start-up in-house environment
- Legal training (JD, LLM) is a plus but not required
- Strong project management skills with a high degree of ownership; you’re able to roll up your sleeves and manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders with clarity and follow-through
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills — you’re someone who doesn’t let things fall through the cracks
- Strong written and verbal communication — you’re warm, clear, and confident when presenting or interacting with new hires and teammates
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and adapting quickly in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience or familiarity with the following tools and platforms preferred: Notion, Ironclad (or related CLM), Salesforce
- Located in or commutable to San Francisco and open to working in office
Salary Range: $125,000 - $165,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is here.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
