Discord

Legal Vendor Program Manager

San Francisco Bay Area · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$144k-$162kDetected 5 days ago

Data VisualizationNegotiationForecastingExcelVendor ManagementProcurementCommunication

About the role

Discord is looking for a Legal Vendor Program Manager to join our growing legal team.
You will work closely with Discord's attorneys, Finance, Procurement, and other cross-functional teams.
This role reports to the Director, Global Litigation.

Own Discord's outside counsel and legal service provider relationships end-to-end, including requests for proposals, performance tracking, service level monitoring, and spend management against organizational expectations and competitive benchmarks
Develop and maintain outside counsel terms of engagement, billing guidelines, secondment agreements, and other documentation to ensure law firm adherence to company requirements
Partner with Finance to build and maintain legal spend accruals and forecasting mechanisms, outside counsel cost benchmarking, and ad-hoc legal analytics
Drive the development of playbooks, tools, systems, and processes that enable automation, scale, and optionality in legal vendor management across cross-functional stakeholders
Prepare and deliver regular reports to attorneys and Finance on outside counsel spend, vendor performance, and key metrics and trends
Own the end-to-end process for onboarding and off-boarding legal service providers, including collaborating with internal teams on conflict and security review and troubleshooting setup and access issues
Experience developing or refining outside counsel guidelines and rate frameworks
This role is based in San Francisco with a 2 day per week in-office expectation to support close partnership with our Finance team.

5+ years of experience in legal operations, legal vendor management, or a related role, including experience at a technology company
Hands-on experience with e-billing and matter management platforms
familiarity with invoice review, compliance workflows, and budget alignment processes
Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables and data visualization
Experience with Brightflag, LawVu, or similar e-billing and matter management platforms
Hands-on experience with e-billing and matter management platforms; familiarity with invoice review, compliance workflows, and budget alignment processes

Develop, administer, and enforce cost control strategies, including outside counsel rate structures, annual rate review and negotiation cycles, and alternative fee arrangements
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000 to $162,000 + equity + benefits.
Our salary ranges are determined by role and level.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team.
We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.

This listing is sourced directly from Discord's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.