Senior Legal Operations Manager

9Fin

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

Hybrid

Experience

Senior · 5+ years

Job description

A legal operations role at 9fin for a highly organised operator to run legal operations end-to-end, owning the company's Ironclad CLM and building repeatable workflows and reporting. It is aimed at someone who has run legal or contracts operations before and can build the function in a scale-up environment.

At a glance

Work mode: Hybrid
Languages: English

What you'll do

Own the company's Ironclad CLM
Run legal operations end-to-end
Design workflows for repeatability and build order out of scale-up complexity
Own legal or cross-functional projects including timelines, risks, stakeholders and outcomes
Build clean dashboards, work with a KPI framework and translate metrics into actionable stories
Set up outside counsel spend tracking, panel management or legal project management

What we're looking for

Highly organised with a systems mindset
Commercial, action-biased and comfortable with ambiguity
Hands-on experience with Ironclad or a directly comparable enterprise CLM (for example Juro, LinkSquares, Icertis, Agiloft, Leah)
At least five years' experience running legal operations, contracts operations or a closely adjacent function (compliance operations, legal project management, or legal chief-of-staff), ideally in a scale-up or in-house legal team
End-to-end project delivery: owned legal or cross-functional projects including timelines, risks, stakeholders and outcomes
Reporting and data fluency: build clean dashboards, work with a KPI framework, translate metrics into a story someone can act on

Nice to have

Experience setting up spend tracking, panel management or legal project management
Experience as a team's first or only legal-ops hire, or a member of a small team in the early stage of building out a legal ops function

Benefits

Competitive Salary (salary bands benchmarked at the top end of the market)
Equity
Pension (minimum contributions 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
Private Medical Insurance
Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
Group Life Assurance
Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
25 holiday days per year
Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available
Professional learning and development budget
AI experimentation budget of £800 (UK) per employee to trial AI tools
Quarterly team socials
Summer and Winter company social events

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About 9fin

Key facts

Hybrid company; from January 2027, all employees will work from their designated 9fin office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Some teams may be asked to be in the office more often
Scaling start up that reinvests success in its people