Senior Legal Operations Associate

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a

Legal Operations Senior Associate

, joining our Legal Team, joining our Legal team to help us propel our team mission, namely:

supercharging our business through the provision of excellent legal advice and solid legal processes

and reporting to the Legal Ops Manager.

As a senior member of the Legal Ops function, you'll play a critical role in building and scaling the infrastructure, workflows, and technology that enable the Legal team to operate efficiently and deliver high-impact service across the business. You’ll own key initiatives, collaborate cross-functionally, and serve as a go-to expert on how Legal work gets done. Your work will directly support Remote’s rapid international growth and our Legal team’s mission to deliver excellent legal advice through scalable, automated, and user-friendly processes.

This role sits at the intersection of operations, technology, and legal enablement, and is ideal for someone with a legal background who thrives in systems thinking, project management, and process design.

Remote's well established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences.

Remote’s

Legal Team

is responsible for delivering pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and services, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. As Remote adds new products to the platform and rapidly scales its new and existing customer base, so too does the volume and complexity of legal issues. Each new venture, customer, or external employee could bring a myriad of legal issues across 90+ jurisdictions.

What You Bring

Experience in legal operations, paralegal, legal project management, or similar roles within an in-house legal team, law firm, or legal tech environment

Demonstrable ownership of legal operations or enablement projects with measurable impact (e.g. intake system optimization, legal request triage, external counsel process improvement)

Strong organizational, project management, and stakeholder coordination skills

Experience Working With Legal Tech Tools And Productivity Platforms (needed: Zapier, Notion, Slack, Sigma, Gdrive)

Strong programming knowledge (e.g. Python or JavaScript, Elixir a plus), experienced in working with Git, logic control flow, API integrations, and webhook automation.

Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (CLM), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), task management systems (experience with Zendesk is not mandatory but is a plus).

Familiarity with legal workflows including contract management, external counsel coordination, and internal knowledge bases

Expertise in working with data and metrics reporting

A collaborative, proactive, customer-centric, and analytical mindset, with an eye for solving inefficiencies and enabling legal service delivery at scale.

Comfort with a remote-first, fast-moving, cross-functional work environment

Writes and speaks fluent English with excellent communication skills

As a Legal Ops Sr. Associate in the Legal department, you will provide vital support for the entire legal team, including Employment Specialists and Data Protection.

Reporting to the Legal Ops Manager, you will play an instrumental part in defining and evolving the Legal Operations function at Remote—enabling efficient legal service delivery, leveraging technology and automation (including AI), and ensuring a seamless, positive stakeholder experience (“LUXops”). Your work will help empower our legal professionals and drive the continued growth and excellence of the team.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Task & Project Coordination

Own and manage Remote Legal’s intake, task assignment, project board, and metrics workflows (e.g. Notion, Sigma, KissFlow, Slack, legal inbox), ensuring visibility, balance, and accountability across team members

Serve as the go-to person for legal work orchestration, helping the team stay focused, unblocked, and on track

Process Improvement & Workflow Design

Lead the identification and resolution of process bottlenecks in legal service delivery

Design, implement, and maintain scalable workflows for high-volume request types (e.g. contract review, employee queries, data access requests)

Track and report legal team KPIs and project progress, using dashboards and metrics to guide decision-making

Knowledge Management & Legal Enablement

Own and continuously improve Legal’s internal and external knowledge bases (e.g. Notion, country wikis, external counsel repository)

Partner with legal subject matter experts to ensure guidance, playbooks, and templates are up-to-date and searchable

Drive self-service enablement initiatives to empower internal stakeholders with legal knowledge

Cross-functional Collaboration

Work closely with Legal sub-teams, Product, Operations, Finance, Sales, and Compliance to streamline cross-team processes involving Legal

Support the rollout and adoption of legal tech and automation tools that improve collaboration and reduce turnaround time

External Counsel & Vendor Management

Manage day-to-day operations of external counsel relationships, including instruction, follow-up, and fee tracking

Support vendor onboarding and documentation processes related to legal tools and services

Evaluate opportunities to improve cost-efficiency and service delivery from external legal partners

Advanced Legal Ops Projects

Own one or more strategic Legal Ops projects (e.g. contract lifecycle system rollout, AI-based legal triage, quarterly performance reporting)

Coordinate with Legal Ops leadership on roadmap planning and quarterly team OKRs

Additional Support

Provide high-quality legal research, light contract review, and vendor assessments as needed based on expertise

Serve as a resource and mentor to junior team members on tools, templates, and processes

Additional key responsibilities

Assisting with limited contract review

Supporting limited vendor review as required

Conducting legal research on a variety of topics

Providing additional legal, advisory, and compliance support as needed

Practicals

You'll Report To

Legal Ops Manager

Team

Legal

Location

: Anywhere in the World

Start Date

: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's

Total Rewards philosophy

is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair

equity

Pay

along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $35,200 to $99,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application Process

(async) Profile reviewInterview with recruiter

Interview with Legal Hiring Managers

Interview with other Legal Team members

Exercise (optional)

Interview with General Counsel

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Prior employment verification check

Remote's

Total Rewards philosophy

is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair

equity

Pay

along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.