Senior Paralegal

Airtable•San Francisco, CA

81d•Remote

About The Position

Airtable's Legal team provides proactive, realistic, and strategic advice that drives maximum business impact and reflects Airtable's integrity, creativity, and ambition. This Senior Paralegal position presents a unique opportunity to be a part of our talented, connected, and innovative legal team! We are looking to add our first paralegal - a versatile generalist who thrives on variety, loves solving problems, and can tackle everything from dispute support to contract negotiations to legal operations initiatives within a fast-moving and collaborative environment.

Requirements

You have a paralegal certificate or equivalent experience, with 7-10 years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department, including in-house experience with a technology company
You have experience using the Airtable product or, at a minimum, would be committed to developing greater fluency with Airtable in order to use it in the course of your day-to-day work
You have broad experience across multiple legal practice areas-you're comfortable jumping from litigation support to contract review to compliance projects, all in the same day
You are comfortable with eDiscovery, legal holds, and document management
You're excited about a growth opportunity that combines hands-on execution with exposure to strategic initiatives and mentorship
You bring project management and organizational skills with a track record of building scalable processes and driving operational improvements
You are curious about AI and its potential to transform legal practice, with experience experimenting with AI technologies and developing AI-powered workflows to solve legal challenges
You're an effective and thoughtful communicator who can draft clear, precise documents and translate legal concepts into a digestible format for business partners
You're collaborative, flexible, resourceful, and solution-oriented. You are excited to shape and strengthen Airtable's legal function by building scalable processes and repeatable frameworks. You're both comfortable admitting you don't have the answer, and confident in your ability to go find it
You can execute, prioritize, and stay focused in a fast-paced, evolving environment
You have high integrity and excellent judgment, with the ability to be both strategic and detail-oriented
You're skilled at building authentic relationships with all kinds of people across many functional teams

Responsibilities

Assist with intake and triage of legal requests, ensuring matters are properly routed, tracked, and addressed efficiently
Serve as a key point of contact for internal teams seeking legal support, and as a liaison between Legal and other departments
Manage responses to subpoenas and government inquiries, including document review and coordination with internal stakeholders
Administer legal holds and coordinate eDiscovery processes
Partner with our Customer Support team to resolve disputes and legal inquiries
Work with cross-functional partners to coordinate customer email campaigns for privacy policy updates, subprocessor changes, and other similar notices
Support our global sanctions compliance program, including monitoring our automated screening system
Build and maintain playbooks, process documentation, templates, and self-service guides
Deliver training and create enablement materials for internal business partners
Project-manage cross-functional legal initiatives
Help with aspects of Legal team administration, including team meeting coordination and offsite preparation
Alongside our commercial legal team, negotiate and manage certain commercial agreements, such as NDAs and vendor contracts
Alongside our corporate and compliance counsel, support corporate governance and corporate transactions, entity management, and ESG initiatives
Alongside our Legal Operations Lead: identify opportunities to streamline processes and increase team efficiency; implement and optimize legal technology tools; drive projects to leverage AI to transform how the legal team works; and track metrics and develop dashboards to provide data-driven insights on legal team performance