Legal Operations & Compliance Lead

Join Twelve Labs as a Legal Operations & Compliance Lead. In this role, you will build and manage the operational backbone of our Legal function, supporting a fast-growing global business. You will own various systems, processes, and records, and identify opportunities for automation and standardization. Additionally, you will coordinate compliance projects across multiple departments and serve as a point of contact for legal processes and inquiries. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in legal operations, strong project management skills, and experience with legal technology.

• Own the systems, processes, and records that let a small Legal team support a fast-growing global business, spanning contract operations, corporate governance administration, outside-counsel management, IP portfolio coordination, compliance-program administration, and legal technology.
• Identify opportunities to replace repetitive manual work with standardized workflows, self-service tools, or automation, and lead requirements gathering for future legal technology.
• Coordinate compliance projects across Legal, Security, Engineering, Product, Finance, People, and other operational owners, and support the legal and administrative components of SOC 2, CMMC, privacy, accessibility, AI governance, and similar initiatives.

• Comfort with confidential and privileged information, and the ability to work autonomously while keeping Legal leadership informed
• This role may require participation in on-site interviews and/or completion of in-person onboarding processes
• 5+ years in legal operations, senior paralegal, corporate governance, contract operations, or compliance operations, ideally in-house at a tech/software/AI company
• Strong project management across functions, high attention to detail, and good judgment on when to escalate to an attorney
• Experience with a CLM or matter-management system, contract repositories/metadata/renewals, and corporate governance recordkeeping
• A track record of designing and owning processes, not just administering existing ones
• Experience tracking outside-counsel budgets, invoices, or matter data
• Experience with SpotDraft, Ironclad, DocuSign, HubSpot, Carta, or similar applications
• Paralegal certificate, project management credential, or legal-ops certification
• Experience supporting an international business or a venture-backed Series B/C company
• Experience supporting privacy, security, AI, or accessibility compliance programs (SOC 2, CMMC, GDPR)