Legal Analyst

BigCommerce • Austin, TX

3d • $60,218 - $90,328 • Hybrid

About The Position

Commerce is looking for a Legal Analyst to join our Legal team at our Austin, Texas headquarters. This is a high-impact role at the center of the Legal function – partnering closely with attorneys and cross-functional teams to keep work moving quickly and accurately – the in-house equivalent of a law firm paralegal. You’ll support commercial contracting, litigation/dispute support, and Legal team initiatives, owning matters end-to-end from intake through execution. Project management is essential: you’ll coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder projects where organization and clear communication drive outcomes. You’ll also rely heavily on AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to accelerate work product and build scalable processes.

Requirements

• Strong project management ability: you can plan work, drive timelines, track dependencies, and communicate clearly with many stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can translate complex issues into clear next steps and status updates.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail; you can manage competing priorities and still deliver accurate work.
• Sound judgment and discretion handling sensitive/confidential information.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, taking ownership, and seeing projects through to completion.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 1–4+ years in a paralegal, legal analyst, legal operations, contracts support, or similar role (law firm or in-house).
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with contract tooling and e-signature platforms is a plus (e.g., Salesforce, IronClad, DocuSign, etc.).
• Comfort learning new systems and improving how the team uses them.

Responsibilities

• Commercial Contracts
• Triage and manage intake for legal review requests; gather context, clarify business needs, and route work appropriately.
• Perform initial contract reviews against internal thresholds and criteria; flag risks and missing terms; propose practical options for resolution.
• Draft, review, and negotiate routine agreements, including NDAs and other standard commercial documents (e.g., customer, partner, and procurement agreements), with attorney support as needed.
• Assist attorneys with preparation, review, and negotiation of more complex legal documents and redlines.
• Support redlining workflows by preparing markups, tracking open points, and coordinating responses between Legal and business stakeholders.
• Ensure contracts are complete and accurate (signatures, exhibits, required information) and shepherd agreements through execution.
• Project Management
• Lead and manage large, multi-workstream legal projects involving multiple attorneys, cross-functional teams, and external parties
• Build and maintain project plans, track milestones, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks
• Serve as a central communications hub — keeping stakeholders informed, deadlines on track, and decisions documented
• Identify bottlenecks and proactively problem-solve to keep projects moving forward
• Legal Operations
• Develop and maintain repositories of legal responses, templates, playbooks, and other legal resources for use across the organization
• Assist with building and refining best practices and automation across various contract and legal workflows
• Monitor and maintain data quality within the contract management system
• Manage contracting process by tracking authorizations and correspondence
• Draft routine legal correspondence, internal communications, and other legal documents as needed
• Litigation & Legal Research
• Assist attorneys with litigation-related tasks including document management, discovery support, and coordination with outside counsel
• Conduct research and prepare analyses to help attorneys and internal stakeholders make informed decisions
• Investigate escalated legal requests, analyze risk vs. benefit, anticipate areas of conflict, and present findings and recommendations with proposed solutions
• AI & Technology
• Leverage AI platforms — including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others — to create work product, streamline research, and build scalable processes
• Stay current on emerging legal tech tools and identify opportunities to integrate them into team workflows

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level