Lyten
Sr. Legal Operations Specialist
San Jose, CA · Senior
No sponsorship$120k-$130kDetected 2 hours ago
Project ManagementNegotiationValuationAuditingVendor ManagementContract ManagementCommunicationCollaborationInternal Audit
About the role
- Together, these innovations are making a massive global improvement and driving real-world impact across energy, mobility, construction, and defense.
- We're entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators.
Responsibilities
- Help define Legal's AI roadmap: identify workflows that can be transformed with AI, guide build-vs-buy decisions, drive adoption, and measure impact.
- Own outside counsel and legal vendor management end-to-end, including invoice review, rate negotiation, alternative fee arrangements, engagement, panel reviews/RFPs, and spend/accrual tracking and reporting
- Build and maintain the legal department's workflows, intake/triage processes, approval routing, and knowledge infrastructure (precedent library, playbooks, SOPs, internal hubs) so the business knows when and how to loop in legal.
- Support the department's governance and compliance hygiene, including records retention and litigation holds, internal controls documentation, D&O insurance renewal, and internal audit/compliance testing cycles.
- Onboard and train new legal department hires, and proactively spot process gaps and create scalable solutions.
- Lean into other legal department needs as they arise to support the broader legal team given its lean size.
- Own outside counsel and legal vendor management end-to-end, including invoice review, rate negotiation, alternative fee arrangements, engagement, panel reviews/RFPs, and spend/accrual tracking and reporting; evaluate and operate an e-billing platform as spend grows.
- Join a team of talented, friendly, and down-to-earth innovators who support, challenge, and inspire one another every day.
- Fluency operating at the configuration layer of a CLM platform (e.g., Ironclad), including building and evolving workflows, integrations, and reporting.
Requirements
- Experience shaping outside counsel engagements, rate negotiations, alternative fee arrangements, accruals, and spend optimization in partnership with Finance.
- Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluently between a legal conversation and a Finance, Sales, Product, or Engineering conversation.
- Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a legal function through periods of significant growth.
- Experience with legal operations across multiple international entities/jurisdictions.
- Certification or training in legal operations (e.g., CLOC-affiliated programs) a plus.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Accordingly, applicants must be U.S. citizens.
- This requirement is imposed pursuant to applicable federal export control law and is permitted under the citizenship-based hiring exceptions recognized in Cal.
- Code § 12940 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(2)(C).
- Compensations Range:
Skills
- Lyten is seeking a Sr Legal Operations Specialist to shape how the legal department works as the company rapidly scales.
- Thrive in an environment that celebrates ingenuity, optimism, and meaningful progress - together.
Compensation
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Lyten's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
- We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer.
- The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.
- New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.
- In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity, healthcare, dental, vision, corporate discounts, paid holidays, PTO and sick time, 401K, employee relocation plan (if applicable)
- Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.
Benefits
- someone who can develop a long-term vision for world-class legal operations while also rolling up their sleeves to drive execution.
- Administer Lyten's cap table and equity management platform (e.g., Carta), including stock option and RSU grant processing, 409A valuation coordination, and stakeholder and investor reporting.
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Lyten's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
Company info
- Experience a workplace built on trust, respect, and shared success - where collaboration fuels breakthroughs and everyone's ideas are heard.
- Be part of a fast-moving company entering a commercial growth phase, with opportunities to lead, learn, and make your mark.
Equal opportunity
- Lyten is an equal opportunity employer.
- EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizenship required
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