Legal Operations & Legal Tech Lead

Mews

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

At Mews, we’re building the future of hospitality. As we scale, our Legal & Compliance function needs to become faster, smarter and more effective without becoming more bureaucratic. We’re hiring a Senior Legal Operations & AI Enablement Lead to help make that happen. This is not a standard legal ops coordinator role. We’re looking for someone with the judgement, technical curiosity and delivery strength to modernise workflows, improve tooling, introduce high-quality AI-enabled ways of working and act as a force multiplier for a lean legal team. You’ll combine legal operations depth with strong legal tech and process design instincts. You’ll help shape a more scalable, data-driven operating model for Legal & Compliance, while improving service delivery, knowledge systems and the way work flows across the function.

Requirements

Strong experience in legal operations, legal transformation, legal programme management or a comparable enablement role in a tech, SaaS or fintech environment.
A clear track record of implementing better tooling, workflows and service models rather than simply administering what already exists.
Strong legal tech capability, with evidence of evaluating, implementing or scaling tools that changed how work gets done.
Meaningful experience with CLM implementation, optimisation or ownership, ideally in a scaling in-house environment.
Experience designing or improving processes that work across multiple jurisdictions and stakeholder groups.
Hands-on experience applying AI to workflow design, knowledge management, documentation, reporting or service delivery.
Strong judgement on where automation helps, where human review remains critical and how to build safe adoption habits.
A practical, builder-style mindset with high ownership and a bias to execution.
Strong stakeholder skills and the ability to work effectively with lawyers, operators, finance partners and technical teams.
Comfort in ambiguous, under-structured environments where priorities need to be shaped, not just received.
Attorney training is helpful, but not essential. What matters most is a strong record of building better legal systems, tooling and ways of working.
Experience in tech-forward or AI-forward in-house environments, particularly where legal ops helped shape the operating model.
Experience in fintech, payments or similarly regulated environments would also be valuable.

Responsibilities

Redesign legal workflows, intake, triage, prioritisation and routing so the team can operate more effectively at scale.
Own and improve legal tooling, knowledge systems, document workflows and self-service enablement across the function.
Evaluate, implement or optimise CLM and related legal tech, including AI, billing and orchestration tools, to improve speed, consistency and visibility.
Identify and implement practical AI use cases across legal work, including drafting support, knowledge access, contract workflows, intake, reporting and process design.
Partner with the Chief Legal Officer and legal pillar leads on how work should be structured and where it should sit across lawyers, contracts managers, AI-enabled workflows and outside counsel.
Build dashboards, reporting and planning rhythms for legal demand, service levels, spend, risk areas and team priorities.
Own budgets and forecasting for the function, and sharpen outside counsel administration, invoice handling and spend optimisation.
Create scalable templates, playbooks, training materials and working norms for the wider business.
Lead or support transformation projects across Legal, Compliance, Product, Procurement, People and Commercial teams.
Bring order, pace and measurable execution to special projects owned by the CLO organisation.

Benefits

Unlimited paid holiday
Participation in our company share program
Paid parental leave (6 months fully paid for primary caregivers, 2 months for secondary, available after one year of service)
An annual Learning budget of €300 (and more for high performers) to support your development
Monthly "EDGE" time to Explore, Develop, Grow, and Elevate yourself
A work from anywhere policy with flexibility to work abroad for a few weeks each year
Relocation options, available after one year
Flexible, hybrid working options
A home office setup budget to make your workspace your own and a monthly work-from-home allowance
Claude tokens, so you can automate workflows and build smarter, more efficient ways of working