Chief of Staff, Legal & Compliance Operations (Remote)
Myriad Genetics•Salt Lake City, UT
•Remote
About The Position
This role serves as an operational leader and strategic partner to the Chief Legal Officer, responsible for scaling Legal and Compliance operations while acting as Chief of Staff to ensure execution of priorities, alignment across functions, and effective leadership cadence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 8–12+ year's experience in legal operations, compliance operations, consulting, or strategy/ops roles required
- Experience working directly with senior executives (CLO, GC, CCO, or equivalent) required
- Strong business acumen and comfort operating in regulated environments
- Proven ability to manage ambiguity and drive execution across multiple priorities
- Exceptional communication, judgment, and executive presence
Nice To Haves
- Legal or Compliance experience in a regulated industry is preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead Legal and Compliance operational strategy, planning, and execution
- Own department budgeting, vendor management, outside counsel engagement strategy, and spend optimization
- Drive process improvement across outside counsel spend, contract lifecycle, matter and document management, and compliance workflows
- Partner with Compliance leadership to align operating models, reporting, and risk management
- Implement and optimize legal technology and data analytics
- Establish and track KPIs and update dashboards for Legal and Compliance performance
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CLO on priorities, sequencing, and execution
- Translate CLO vision into actionable operating plans and track progress
- Own leadership cadence: ELT prep, Legal and Compliance leadership meetings, offsites, and communications
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives involving Legal, Compliance, GA, Finance, HR, IT, and Commercial
- Act as delegate for the CLO in meetings and initiatives when appropriate
- Drive special projects, partnership and M&A integration work, and enterprise initiatives as assigned
- Enable Legal and Compliance leaders to operate at a higher strategic level
- Improve decision quality and speed through structure, data, and clarity
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders across the enterprise
- Build scalable systems that reduce friction and increase organizational trust in Compliance and Legal
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
