Sr. Legal Operations Specialist

Lyten•San Jose, CA

1d•$116,600 - $175,000

About The Position

Lyten is seeking a Sr Legal Operations Specialist to shape how the legal department works as the company rapidly scales. This role will help define Legal’s AI roadmap, uplevel the team’s operating performance, and run the systems and programs that allow a lean legal team to scale with the business. Success requires being both a builder and an architect: someone who can develop a long-term vision for world-class legal operations while also rolling up their sleeves to drive execution.

Requirements

JD Degree and experience in legal operations, legal technology, and contract management, ideally in-house at a technology or industrial company OR Masters degree and 3 years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, and contract management, ideally in-house at a technology or industrial company OR Bachelors Degree and 5 years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, and contract management, ideally in-house at a technology or industrial company.
Fluency operating at the configuration layer of a CLM platform (e.g., Ironclad), including building and evolving workflows, integrations, and reporting.
Experience shaping outside counsel engagements, rate negotiations, alternative fee arrangements, accruals, and spend optimization in partnership with Finance.
Strong execution and project management skills with a demonstrated ownership mindset and comfort navigating ambiguity, able to concurrently drive multiple workstreams and deadlines; experience defining key results and building dashboards a plus.
Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluently between a legal conversation and a Finance, Sales, Product, or Engineering conversation.
U.S. citizenship required.

Nice To Haves

Significant experience using GenAI tools to build AI-powered legal workflows.
Experience supporting a legal function through periods of significant growth.
Experience with legal operations across multiple international entities/jurisdictions.
Experience running outside counsel RFPs or panel reviews, and building legal department KPI or dashboard reporting.
Certification or training in legal operations (e.g., CLOC-affiliated programs) a plus.

Responsibilities

Help define Legal’s AI roadmap: identify workflows that can be transformed with AI, guide build-vs-buy decisions, drive adoption, and measure impact.
Configure, administer, and continuously improve Lyten's contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, including its workflows, integrations, reporting, and any AI-driven tools layered on top of it.
Own outside counsel and legal vendor management end-to-end, including invoice review, rate negotiation, alternative fee arrangements, engagement, panel reviews/RFPs, and spend/accrual tracking and reporting; evaluate and operate an e-billing platform as spend grows.
Build and maintain the legal department’s workflows, intake/triage processes, approval routing, and knowledge infrastructure (precedent library, playbooks, SOPs, internal hubs) so the business knows when and how to loop in legal.
Uplevel the legal team's operating system: support annual planning, define key results and metrics, build dashboards, and serve as project manager for high-impact legal initiatives.
Support the department’s governance and compliance hygiene, including records retention and litigation holds, internal controls documentation, D&O insurance renewal, and internal audit/compliance testing cycles.
Administer Lyten's cap table and equity management platform (e.g., Carta), including stock option and RSU grant processing, 409A valuation coordination, and stakeholder and investor reporting.
Onboard and train new legal department hires, and proactively spot process gaps and create scalable solutions.
Lean into other legal department needs as they arise to support the broader legal team given its lean size.