# Head of Legal Operations & Chief of Staff

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $238,000-$327,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Head of Legal Operations & Chief of Staff is a strategic and operational leadership role serving as the operational proxy to the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) while directly leading and managing the Legal Operations function.

You will bridge legal practice and corporate functional areas, drive vendor and budget efficiency, lead legal technology and AI use cases, and streamline cross-functional workflows to scale Okta's global legal operations in a high-velocity environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Strategic Proxy & Executive Partnership: Serve as trusted proxy and advisor to the CLO in executive forums and key decision-making bodies.

- Department Alignment: Connect leadership across Legal Department specialties to ensure legal programs align directly with business goals.

- Organizational Alignment: Connect with chiefs of staff and leadership across all company departments to ensure legal strategy and budgets align directly with business goals.

- Special Initiatives: Lead high-impact, cross-functional legal and corporate programs from design through execution.

- Legal Operations & Technology Leadership: Direct and scale enterprise-wide Legal Operations infrastructure, intake models, and workflow automation.

- Legal Tech & AI Roadmap: Oversee evaluation and rollout of legal technology stacks and incorporate practical AI tools into daily workflows.

- Metrics & Analytics: Establish legal KPIs and operational dashboards to track team performance, turnaround times, and department ROI.

- Vendor & Outside Counsel Management: Direct outside counsel guidelines, fee negotiations, billing compliance, and alternative fee arrangements.

- Business Operations & Financial Stewardship: Manage global Legal Department operating budgets and external legal spend in partnership with Finance and the legal leadership team.

Core Qualifications:

- Experience: 10+ years in legal operations, chief of staff, or strategic legal/business operations within a high-growth tech environment.

- Legal Operations Mastery: Proven success scaling legal operations, implementing CLM/e-Billing and AI enabled tech, creating and improving legal department processes and managing outside counsel spend.

- Financial & Business Acumen: Strong background managing departmental budgets, vendor negotiations, and data-driven reporting.

- Executive Presence and Management: Ability to partner effectively with C-suite leadership and influence cross-functional teams, as well as manage cross functional teams.

- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; JD or MBA strongly preferred.

The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $238,000-$327,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- legal operations
- chief of staff
- strategic legal/business operations
- CLM/e-Billing
- AI enabled tech
- budget management
- vendor negotiations
- data-driven reporting
- executive presence
- management

### Nice to have
- JD
- MBA

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