Legal Operations & Strategy Lead (Remote)

Quora

1d•Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for an experienced legal operations leader to uplevel the way our small but mighty legal team functions. In this high-impact role, you’ll own the design and rollout of core legal processes, systems, and metrics that improve how we manage risk, support growth, and partner with the business using AI and other innovative technology solutions. You will bring specialized experience in strategizing on and delivering regulatory product solutions using operational best practices. You’ll work closely with legal and cross-functional partners – including product, engineering, security, HR, finance, and others – to streamline how work gets done, support key work streams, implement data-driven decision-making, and ensure compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations. You will lead with influence, build structure through ambiguity, and deliver innovative and scalable, technically advanced solutions. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker who knows how to harness legal operations to enable business growth and risk management.

Requirements

Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
8-10+ years of progressive experience in legal operations, regulatory operations, product/legal policy compliance, program management, consulting, or business operations experience with at least 3 years in legal department operations in dynamic environments
Proven experience designing, implementing, and scaling legal policies, processes, playbooks, technology workflows, and governance frameworks
Experience navigating complex regulatory environments
Strong project management skills and demonstrated experience designing, operationalizing and updating large scale regulatory compliance workstreams
Strong technology aptitude and experience with: project management tools, database management, and legal technology, including AI focused tools, contract lifecycle management systems, legal research applications, and workflow platforms
Experience building and scaling contract and procurement processes

Nice To Haves

Experience negotiating, drafting, and advising clients on commercial contracts
Experience working with global technology companies
Experience supporting litigation, including filings and submissions
Familiarity with regulatory requirements applicable to online platforms, marketplaces, social media, and AI products
Experience program managing SOC2 compliance efforts

Responsibilities

Translate emerging regulatory trends into actionable business executions across Quora and Poe platforms
Build and manage scalable regulatory compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions, including developing risk assessments, roadmaps, and tracking timelines
Effectively communicate regulatory insights through guidelines, FAQs, procedures, tutorials, presentations, and training
Partner with cross-functional technical partners to design systems and AI tooling that enable proactive, automated compliance solutions
Help influence cross-functional roadmaps and corporate strategy through deep expertise in regulatory frameworks
Design, implement and scale a variety of innovative legal policies, processes and playbooks to streamline work flows, enable the business, and enhance the legal team’s productivity and impact leveraging AI
Build and improve AI based contract automation and related work flows to streamline contract lifecycle management; draft and negotiate commercial contracts under attorney supervision
Project manage litigation timelines and deliverables
Manage legal vendors and support outside counsel billing, budgeting, and cost optimization
Create and maintain mature information management processes for storing and organizing critical legal documents and data

Benefits

Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.
Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
For more information on benefits, visit this link: https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits

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