Are you passionate about building out new processes that help scale growth and increase team member efficiency? How would you like to be the first person to help build out a legal operations function at MongoDB? The legal team at MongoDB has a great reputation for being forward thinking and operating at a high level in supporting a fast growing and highly successful business.

In this role, you'll be responsible for building the legal operations function, including developing processes and implementing solutions to improve the day-to-day productivity of the team. You will also help manage our contracts management platform, working with our Conga Administrator on improving our use case. This role will be instrumental in crafting the future of the legal team and legal operations at MongoDB.

This is a full-time position based in Silicon Valley, but we will consider other locations, including working remotely, for the right candidate. You will be reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel and work with the entire legal team, including the General Counsel on strategic projects impacting the legal function.

Responsibilities

• Build out the legal operations function
• Identify Legal Team pain points and implement solutions to scale the operations of the Legal Team (i.e., handle design, rollout, and training for new tools, systems, and processes)
• Coordinate daily management and maintenance of Conga contract management system
• Identify and improve our contract management process
• Create external counsel billing guidelines, and manage billing matters
• Assist with crafting an onboarding program for new Legal Team hires
• Assist with management of Legal Team’s intranet site
• Build relationships across other teams such as Finance, Procurement, and Business Systems
• Support and handle a variety of ad hoc projects within the team as they arise

Our ideal candidate will have

• 3+ years of in-house legal operations or operations experience at a law firm
• Excellent project-management skills and pay great attention to detail
• Self-starter mentality with a high degree of follow through
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with a consistent track record of collaborating with other teams
• Passion for problem-solving
• Proficiency with business applications such as Microsoft Office, GSuite, Conga and Salesforce
• Growth attitude with a desire to work on various legal matters and consider multiple solutions to issues
• Passion for learning about new technology solutions in the legal industry
• Phenomenal sense of humor and does not take himself/herself too seriously
• Celebrates team success over individual achievement

MongoDB provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws