F5
Legal Operations Specialist
Seattle · Mid
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About the role
- The Legal Operations Specialist is a key member of F5's Office of the General Counsel, reporting to the Sr.
- Success in this role requires professionalism, sound judgment, collaboration, and the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion while helping the legal team work more efficiently and effectively.
- Collaboration Tools: Oversee organization and maintenance of shared collaboration tools and resources, including SharePoint sites, Teams channels, and Outlook distribution lists, ensuring efficient team communication and documentation management.
Responsibilities
- Support Legal Operations Technology and Tool Enablement
- E-Billing Platform Support: Assist with legal e-billing platform operations, including matter setup, invoice processing and workflows, budget and accrual tracking, user support, and reporting.
- Enterprise Legal Training Platform Support: Coordinate legal training launches, manage training platform support, prepare reporting, and assist team members with access, completion, and follow-up needs.
- CLM Operational Support: Provide operational support for the Legal Operations CLM team and attorney users as needed, including tool support, process assistance, issue coordination, and contract signatures.
- Dashboard & Reporting Support: Maintain and update standard dashboards and reports within Legal Operations tools, track key metrics and trends, and prepare recurring reporting.
- Support rate reviews and vendor onboarding, track outside counsel guidelines, addressing law firm questions related to matters and invoicing, and assisting with quarterly budgeting, monthly accruals, financial reporting, dashboard updates, purchase order tracking, and other financial management activities.
- Knowledge Management: Document legal operations processes, maintain legal document version control, and help legal team members use tools, templates, and technology effectively through guides and resource documentation.
Requirements
- Associates degree or higher (Business, Legal Studies, Operations, Finance, Technology, or related field) or relevant number of years of experience
- 3+ years of legal operations, legal administrative, paralegal, or business operations experience
- Strong computer skills and ability to quickly learn new software platforms
- Working knowledge of AI workplace tools (Gemini, Copilot, etc.), with demonstrated ability to use them to improve proficiency and efficiency
- Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook)
- Experience with DocuSign, Adobe products, or similar business applications
- Certified Notary Public or willing to obtain license
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience coordinating across multiple teams and external stakeholders in different time zones or locations
- Work Location Requirement: This role requires working onsite at the F5 Tower in downtown Seattle a minimum of four days per week, subject to business needs. In-office requirements may be adjusted in accordance with F5 workplace policies and business needs.
- This role may require occasional weekend, holiday or outside business hours work to support business priorities.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with basic reporting, data tracking, and dashboards (Power BI experience a plus)
- Exposure to legal department tools (Legal Tracker, ServiceNow, Contract Lifecycle Management software)
- Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
- This role requires occasional travel (
- Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- In-office requirements may be adjusted in accordance with F5 workplace policies and business needs.
- The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job.
- However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Skills
- Experience supporting an in-house legal department and understanding legal operations practices and stakeholder needs.
- Comfortable embracing quick change and administering and adopting new technologies and tools.
- Familiar with enterprise AI solutions, agents, and workflows; experience with Gemini is a plus.
- Communicates clearly, professionally, and effectively across a variety of audiences.
- Facilitate Outside Counsel, Vendor and Financial Management
- Drive Knowledge Management and Communications
- Operational Execution
Compensation
- $58,600.00 - $87,800.00
- F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5's differing products, industries, and lines of business.
- The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
- You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
Benefits
- https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
- This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.
- Legal Team Education Platform: Administer the online legal education platform, manage user access, promote course awareness, and support ongoing education for the legal team.
Company info
- At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life.
- Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world.
- We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
- Everything we do centers around people.
- That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better.
- And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
- Job Business Title:
- Legal Operations Specialist
- Seattle - hybrid - four days per week in office
- Job Family and Level:
- More details about F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
Equal opportunity
- It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws.
- F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.
- Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary.
- F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job.
This listing is sourced directly from F5's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.