Responsibilities
- Build and own Ashby’s legal operations function from the ground up, including systems, processes, and tooling.
- Partner with Commercial Counsel to bring commercial contracting fully in-house, reducing reliance on external counsel and improving speed and consistency.
- Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and ongoing management of contract workflow and management tooling (e.g. workflow automation or CLM).
- Partner closely with Sales and RevOps to support contract tooling rollout, drive adoption, and deliver enablement (playbooks, workflows, training).
- Design and implement a centralized legal intake function (e.g., legal inbox, ticketing system), improving visibility, prioritization, and response times.
- Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve legal workflows, including experimentation with agentic tools and optimization of internal AI usage.
- Establish and maintain contract templates, version control, and documentation to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Build and maintain a centralized legal knowledge base, including playbooks, FAQs, and self-service resources that reduce repetitive inquiries from business teams.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Security, Product, IT, and Finance to implement scalable legal and compliance workflows (e.g., security questionnaires, procurement tools, incident management).
- Own and continuously optimize the legal tech stack, including integrations with tools like CPQ and procurement platforms (e.g., Zip), and identify opportunities to adopt new tooling as the function matures.
- Support broader legal and company initiatives as needed, including fundraising or M&A data room management, compliance workflows, and cross-functional projects.
- Manage vendor and external counsel operations, including billing, budgeting, and performance tracking.
- Build reporting and dashboards to provide visibility into legal metrics (e.g., contract turnaround time, volume, bottlenecks).
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in legal operations with at least 2 years’ experience working in legal operations within a high-growth technology company or startup. You have built or materially scaled legal operations infrastructure before, not just maintained it.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating, implementing and managing legal technology (e.g., CLM/workflow automation, intake/ticketing systems, contract repositories).
- Experience evaluating, implementing and experimenting with AI tools in legal or operational workflows.
- Strong understanding of commercial contracting workflows and the needs of GTM teams.
- Experience working cross-functionally with teams like Sales, RevOps, Security, Product, or Finance.
- Highly organized with strong project management skills - able to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously and bring structure to ambiguity.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to identify inefficiencies and design scalable solutions.
- Excellent communication skills - able to translate legal and operational concepts into clear, actionable processes.
- High ownership and execution focus - you don’t just design systems, you implement and iterate on them.
Nice to Have
- Participation in relevant legal ops communities is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year. Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it 😅.
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.
Team
Team size: 220+. Structure: high-growth technology company or startup
Additional Information
- We run the end-to-end hiring process through our own platform, and ensure a level playing field for all candidates. Reaching out to hiring managers or recruiters directly won't improve your odds of success and we are unable to respond to individual reachout. To maintain an equitable process, please apply directly and focus your energy on the quality of your application.
- We are a rapidly growing team and company, and the ability to stay flexible and thrive amid change is key to success here.
