Senior Manager, Legal Operations

Kindeva Drug Delivery • Woodbury, MN

15h • Remote

About The Position

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.
The Impact You Will Make
We are seeking a strategic, process-minded Legal Operations Manager to help scale and optimize our Legal function. This role is critical to improving efficiency, implementing technology, managing key workflows, and enabling the Legal team to operate like a modern, data-driven business unit.
The Legal Operations Manager will work with the department attorneys and leadership to manage legal department operations and to execute projects to improve the process for delivery of legal services to the company. This position plays a key role in managing administrative processes, supporting department leadership, ensuring fiscal responsibility, managing other legal operations team members, and helping to drive continuous improvement within the legal department. The manager will utilize strong organizational skills and experience building efficient systems and teams to enable the legal department to collaborate effectively across the company and to deliver excellent legal services to the organization.

Requirements

• Undergrad Degree
• 5+ years of experience in legal operations, project management, business operations, or similar roles within a legal department or legal service provider.
• Strong understanding of legal department processes, technology, and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience managing systems such as CLM platforms, e‑billing tools, or matter management solutions.
• Excellent analytical, financial, and project management skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across diverse teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in corporate in‑house legal departments.
• Familiarity with legal spend management and budgeting.
• Process improvement certifications (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) are a plus.
• Experience supporting a fast‑growing or operationally maturing organization.
• The ideal candidate is an analytical problem solver with strong organizational skills and a deep understanding of how high-performing in-house legal departments run.

Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence
• Design, improve, and manage core legal workflows (intake, contracting, compliance tracking, outside counsel requests).
• Implement and maintain scalable legal processes and playbooks.
• Build KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to track team performance and workload.
• Technology & Systems
• Lead selection, deployment and ongoing optimization of legal technology solutions (e.g., CLM, e-billing, matter management, document management, e-signature tools).
• Partner with IT and cross functional teams to ensure systems integrate effectively with enterprise tools.
• Serve as system administrator for legal tech platforms, including troubleshooting, configuration, and user training.
• Financial Management
• Manage the legal department budget, forecasting, and spend analysis.
• Oversee outside counsel engagement, rate negotiations, and performance tracking.
• Implement and maintain e-billing or invoice review processes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Act as the process and project lead for legal-driven company initiatives.
• Work closely with Finance, HR, IT, and business units to streamline cross-department workflows.
• Strategic Planning & Project Management
• Lead or support strategic legal initiatives, including team planning, vendor consolidation, and operational roadmaps.
• Drive change management and adoption of new processes and tools.
• Support the CLO with departmental metrics, headcount planning, and operational reviews.

Benefits

• this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental, & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences, and 401k Benefits, etc.)

What This Job Offers

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