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title: "Legal Operations Lead"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-legal-operations-lead-0733122f-4697-49ee-883f-ce61be71d290"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/f4008098-8646-4ac1-9cc2-23acd756e0cc"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: lead
role: operations
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-14T17:12:46.151Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:36.640Z
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# Legal Operations Lead

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/f4008098-8646-4ac1-9cc2-23acd756e0cc

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a foundational legal operations role at a fast-growing AI infrastructure company in the reinforcement learning and model evaluation space. You will own the entire legal operating system, from intake to outside-counsel coordination, and play a direct role in making legal work scalable as commercial volume and complexity grow. It is a hands-on, systems-oriented position that blends contracting work with process design.

##### What You'll Do

- Own the end-to-end legal workflow, including intake, prioritization, approvals, escalation paths, document management, and outside-counsel coordination.

- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements with buyers, data vendors, and partners, including MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, SLAs, NDAs, and vendor contracts.

- Build and refine contract templates and negotiation playbooks to handle recurring issues such as data rights and usage restrictions quickly and consistently.

- Identify opportunities to automate or streamline high-volume legal workflows using software and AI, while preserving human judgment for complex matters.

- Establish clear decision rules for what stays internal, what can be standardized or automated, and what escalates to founders or outside counsel.

- Manage outside counsel strategically to control spend, scope work efficiently, and reserve external lawyers for high-value or specialist matters.

##### What We're Looking For

- Law degree required (LLB or equivalent; EU bachelor of law is acceptable).

- 5 or more years of experience in legal operations, contracts management, commercial operations, or transactional legal work at a fast-growing technology company.

- Demonstrated ability to draft, review, and negotiate commercial technology agreements, with sound judgment on routine versus specialist issues.

- Hands-on experience with US commercial contracting conventions.

- Experience building or scaling legal operations, contract management, or deal desk functions from an early stage.

- Ability to design and implement legal workflows, intake systems, document management processes, and approval frameworks.

- Experience managing outside counsel relationships, including scoping, spend control, and escalation decisions.

- Strong commercial judgment to balance legal risk against speed and business priorities.

- Comfort with legal technology platforms, workflow automation tools, and AI; genuine interest in using them to scale legal work.

- Experience with data licensing, IP-intensive transactions, marketplaces, or businesses where contractual rights tie closely to product functionality is a plus.

- Experience working independently in fast-paced, early-stage startup environments is a plus.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary in the range of **$160,000 to $200,000 USD annually**, plus equity and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k, commuter benefits, and access to leading AI tools. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for strong candidates.

##### Location

On-site in **San Francisco, CA** or Singapore.

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