Legal Ops Manager

Waste Solution Services•Lawrence, NY

11h•Onsite

About The Position

Waste Solution Services (WSS) helps multifamily and commercial property management companies reduce and stabilize waste expenses by managing vendor relationships, auditing invoices, optimizing contracts, and resolving service issues. As the company grows, it is expanding its operations, infrastructure, and internal capabilities. The Legal Operations Manager is the primary internal point of contact for legal matters across the organization and works directly with the CEO and department leadership. This hands-on role owns day-to-day legal needs and builds the processes, templates, and systems required to support a growing business. The manager operates independently, exercises sound judgment, and determines which matters can be handled internally and which require outside counsel. The role establishes and continually improves the company’s legal operations by creating standardized procedures, contract templates, and workflows, and by bringing structure and accountability to legal matters. Its objective is to create a centralized legal function so leadership can focus on running the business while legal matters are handled efficiently, proactively, and appropriately. The position is full-time and in-office in Lawrence, New York, with annual compensation of $100,000–$130,000, and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in corporate, commercial, or business-focused legal roles.
Previous in-house legal experience is strongly preferred.
Experience serving as a primary legal point of contact or operating with limited supervision.
Strong background in contract drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and redlining.
Experience managing outside counsel and coordinating legal matters.
Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to exercise sound independent judgment and prioritize competing legal matters.
Comfort working directly with executive leadership and department heads.
Proactive and resourceful, with the ability to build processes rather than simply follow existing ones.

Nice To Haves

Experience as an in-house corporate paralegal, legal operations manager, or senior legal professional.
Background working in a small or growing company with a lean legal function.
Experience developing legal SOPs, contract templates, and standardized workflows.
Familiarity with commercial collections, demand letters, liens, and litigation coordination.
Experience managing contract repositories, legal matter tracking, and document management systems.
Experience supporting multiple entities or operating companies.
Ability to balance hands-on legal execution with broader operational and process-building responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary internal point of contact for legal matters across the organization.
Manage legal requests from Finance, HR, Sales, Operations, and other departments.
Draft, review, negotiate, and redline routine commercial agreements, vendor contracts, customer agreements, NDAs, and other business documents.
Develop and implement legal SOPs, standardized templates, contract workflows, approval processes, and internal procedures.
Establish and maintain a centralized contract management system and organized legal document repository.
Manage demand letters, payment disputes, collections-related legal matters, liens, small claims preparation, and judgment tracking.
Coordinate with outside counsel on complex litigation, regulatory matters, employment issues, and matters requiring specialized legal support.
Manage outside counsel relationships, including selecting firms, coordinating assignments, monitoring deliverables, and tracking legal spend.
Establish systems for tracking legal deadlines, filings, outstanding matters, and required follow-ups.
Identify potential legal risks and proactively bring issues to leadership’s attention.
Determine which matters can be resolved internally and which require escalation to outside counsel.
Continuously evaluate and improve the company’s legal processes as the organization grows.