Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nearmap provides aerial imagery, AI-driven analytics, and geospatial tools for understanding the built environment. The Manager, Legal Operations & Compliance leads the legal operations team, manages legal technology and contracting workflows, and supports entity governance, insurance, privacy, and compliance programs.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the legal operations team by strategically allocating work, cross-training across teams/verticals, and managing leave/coverage plans to avoid single points of failure
- Oversee the RFQ/RFP process, working closely with the Contracts and Proposal Manager and cross-functionally to build a scalable process ensuring timely and efficient submission of proposals and completed questionnaires
- Own and triage the Legal Jira intake queue, ensuring requests are correctly routed, assigned, and progressed per the intake workflow. Explore ways to optimize
- Serve as primary approver on Salesforce quotes requiring legal review, applying the quote approval process and escalating to delegates as needed
- Support Sales and account teams on legal matters, including training on contract risk, handling customer-facing legal enquiries, and managing recurring requests (NDAs, sole source letters, imagery permissions, COIs)
- Review and negotiate NDAs and similar agreements, balancing risk identification with Nearmap's business needs, and collaborate on global legal projects led by regional Counsel
- Own the legal technology strategy and stack, including Conga/CPQ, Checkbox, Agiloft, DocuSign, and the Salesforce Legal Queue, driving adoption, configuration, and vendor management
- Maintain the contract management system, global contracts register, template/clause library, and document retention practices
- Define and maintain legal operations KPIs and dashboards (ticket volume, turnaround time, contract cycle time, outside counsel spend), using data to guide resourcing and process improvements
- Manage Nearmap's quoting and contracting process, including Schedule 1 terms and Order Level Materials
- Support entity governance across all jurisdictions, including registrations, annual renewals, registered agents, filings, and license renewals
- Own the annual insurance renewal process with Nearmap's broker and manage certificate of insurance requests from customers and vendors
- Support the Company's data privacy program and maintain the Legal Ops-owned policy library, ensuring version control, brand compliance, and regular review
- Own compliance operations, regulatory statement delivery, and stand up an outside counsel management program covering engagement guidelines, spend, and business reviews
Skills
- Paralegal studies or diploma in law and 4+ years' experience in a legal operations role, ideally by way of implementing a legal operations function at a major law firm or in-house
- Substantive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and correspondence, with broad commercial and corporate law knowledge, particularly IP, licensing, SaaS, revenue recognition, and privacy in a technology context
- Proven ability to manage complex problems and business needs in a fast-paced environment, balancing risk against quality with minimal supervision
- People management experience, including performance management, workload allocation, and building team capability and capacity
- Experience administering contract lifecycle management and legal workflow platforms (e.g., Conga/CPQ, Checkbox, Agiloft, DocuSign), with a strong systems and process orientation
- Data-driven approach, using analytics and reporting to unlock team capacity and inform decision-making
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills. High attention to detail and proficiency in MS Office
- You're a clear communicator. You connect and communicate effectively with people at every level, translating complex legal and commercial concepts into language anyone can act on
- You're commercially minded. You don't just flag risk, you help find the path through it, giving advice that's grounded in what actually moves the business forward
- You're a natural collaborator. You build strong partnerships across functions, and people seek you out because you make cross-team work feel easy
- You're adaptable. A fast-moving product roadmap doesn't faze you. You flex your approach as the business evolves and find the right fit for what's needed next
- You're a people developer. You know how to build team capability and coverage, growing the people around you while keeping the operation resilient no matter what comes your way
- You're tech-curious. APIs, integrations, and the tools behind aerial imagery genuinely interest you, and you're always looking to understand how the technology connects to the business
- Experience with entity management, corporate governance, and administering compliance programs preferred
- Exposure to RFP management and government contracting (federal and local), including GSA Schedule contracts, preferred
- Experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote work for candidates within the continental United States
- Inclusive, supportive culture
- A safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves
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