# Legal Innovation & Operations Lead

**Company**: Block
**Location**: Bay Area, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Zone A:$217,800-$326,800 USD
Zone B: $217,800-$326,800 USD
Zone C:$217,800-$326,800 USD
Zone D:$217,800-$326,800 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a collaborative, curious operations professional with a passion for leading our Legal Innovation & Operations (LIO) team within our Counsel organization.

You will manage multiple workstreams, from continuing the work to improve the organization's technology and automation initiatives to managing our budget and reducing third-party spend where possible.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the charge on defining and driving our legal tech strategy, including setting the vision, building the roadmap, and delivering tools that make our team faster, smarter, and more connected.

- Oversee our suite of legal systems, ensuring they're optimized, well-integrated, and aligned with how the business actually works.

- Manage our core digital platforms, keeping them efficient, intuitive, and budget-conscious.

- Partner across Legal, Policy, IT, Finance, Business Operations and beyond to evaluate and roll out technology and solutions that streamlines work and improves the experience for everyone who touches it.

- Design elegant solutions and connecting the dots between business needs and technology.

- Build and maintain relationships with vendors, ensuring we get measurable value from our tech investments.

- Lead multi-quarter, cross-functional projects that push automation, AI, and data-driven insights deeper into how we deliver our work throughout the organization.

- Help create operational excellence wherever opportunities exist.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience in legal operations, tech strategy, or a related operations-focused role.

- Experience leading automation or AI initiatives that drive measurable improvements.

- Capacity for managing budgets, timelines, and stakeholders, with a sharp eye for detail and follow-through.

- Adaptive communication methods, translating technical detail into clear business value.

- A collaborative and curious mindset, unafraid to experiment or rethink how things are done.

- Familiarity with platforms like DocuSign CLM or workflow automation tools.

- Experience building trust quickly and working well with everyone from senior leadership to individual contributors.

## Skills

### Required
- legal operations
- tech strategy
- automation
- AI
- budget management
- stakeholder management
- communication
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- DocuSign CLM
- workflow automation tools
- implementation experience

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