Senior Paralegal

Sourceability•Austin, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Sourceability® is a global digital distributor of electronic components transforming how modern businesses bring products to market. With innovation, quality and logistics as the backbone of the company, Sourceability’s cutting-edge products and services expedite the procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. We are seeking an experienced Senior Paralegal to join our legal team and support a broad range of legal operations, commercial, employment, compliance, investigations, corporate, and operational legal matters across the company’s global business. The Senior Paralegal will serve as a key member of the legal department and provide practical, hands-on support across a wide range of in-house legal functions. This is an in-house generalist role with a significant focus on legal operations, commercial contracts, employment-related matters, compliance work, internal investigations, and day-to-day legal support. The ideal candidate has at least 8 years of relevant paralegal or legal operations experience, strong experience with contract review and drafting support, and the ability to manage legal workflows in a fast-paced business environment. The successful candidate should be highly organized, detail-oriented, business-minded, and comfortable supporting a broad range of legal matters, including issues outside their primary areas of experience. The Senior Paralegal will report to the General Counsel. This is a hybrid role working from Austin, TX.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of relevant paralegal, legal operations, or in-house legal support experience.
Strong experience supporting commercial contracts, contract review, contract drafting, and contract lifecycle management.
Experience supporting legal operations, matter management, legal department workflows, reporting, and process improvement.
Experience supporting employment, compliance, investigations, corporate governance, or general corporate legal matters.
Prior in-house legal department experience strongly preferred.
Experience with legal technology tools, e-signature platforms, document management systems, contract lifecycle management systems, and Microsoft Office required.
Paralegal certificate or bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a company with international operations is a plus.
Experience with distribution, supply chain, technology, electronics, manufacturing, or similar industries is a plus.
Familiarity with trade compliance, export controls, sanctions, anti-corruption, data privacy, employment compliance, and related legal or compliance matters is helpful.
Strong understanding of commercial contracts and legal document workflows.
Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders in a fast-paced, global business environment.
Sound judgment and ability to identify when legal, business, employment, compliance, or investigation issues should be escalated.
Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills.
High degree of professionalism, discretion, confidentiality, and integrity, especially when handling sensitive employment, compliance, and investigation matters.
Practical, business-minded, proactive, and solutions-oriented approach.
Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with attorneys, Human Resources, compliance, business teams, outside counsel, and international stakeholders.
Strong technology skills and willingness to help improve legal department systems and processes.
Ability and willingness to support legal matters outside core areas of experience as business needs require.

Responsibilities

Support the review, drafting, organization, and management of a wide range of commercial agreements, including customer agreements, supplier agreements, distribution agreements, services agreements, NDAs, terms and conditions, amendments, statements of work, and related business contracts.
Assist attorneys and business stakeholders with contract intake, preliminary review, redline management, version control, approvals, signature coordination, contract tracking, and contract lifecycle management.
Identify and escalate unusual contract terms, legal issues, approval requirements, commercial risks, and deviations from company templates or playbooks.
Maintain and improve contract templates, clause libraries, legal playbooks, approval workflows, filing systems, and contract management processes.
Support legal operations initiatives, including matter intake, project tracking, outside counsel coordination, budget tracking, invoice review, legal technology tools, reporting, knowledge management, and process improvement.
Assist with employment-related matters in partnership with attorneys and Human Resources, including employee relations documentation, policy updates, separations, restrictive covenants, accommodations, investigations, wage and hour support, and employment compliance processes.
Support internal investigations, including intake tracking, document collection and organization, chronology preparation, interview scheduling, evidence management, investigation files, findings documentation, remediation tracking, and related reporting.
Assist with compliance initiatives, including anti-corruption, trade compliance, sanctions, export controls, data privacy, conflicts of interest, ethics, policy management, training materials, questionnaires, certifications, audits, and internal controls.
Support legal issues related to global electronics distribution, including supply chain, procurement, sales, logistics, warranties, product issues, international operations, and customer or supplier disputes.
Assist with corporate governance and entity management matters, including corporate records, resolutions, consents, officer and director records, registrations, annual filings, organizational charts, and coordination with registered agents and outside counsel.
Support disputes, claims, subpoenas, demand letters, litigation holds, document preservation, document collection, and coordination with outside counsel.
Track key legal deadlines, renewals, obligations, filings, investigation milestones, compliance tasks, and contract-related dates.
Prepare reports, summaries, presentations, training materials, process documents, and legal department communications for internal use.
Work cross-functionally with business teams in the United States and internationally.
Handle additional legal matters and special projects as necessary to support the company’s evolving business needs.