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Scopely, a digital entertainment company, is seeking a Director of Legal Operations to lead and build out the Legal Operations function. This is a hybrid role based in Culver City, CA, reporting to Legal leadership.
You will own the strategy, operating model, technology roadmap, governance framework, and performance infrastructure for a global, high-growth Legal department. You will directly manage a Senior Manager of Legal Operations who handles day-to-day Ironclad CLM operations, knowledge management infrastructure, and AI-enabled legal technology implementation.
Key responsibilities include:
**Legal Operations Strategy & Functional Leadership**: Partner with Legal leadership to define and execute a multi-year Legal Operations strategy aligned with business priorities. Translate Legal department priorities into an integrated roadmap covering technology, process improvement, data, knowledge management, automation, training, and organizational capability. Establish annual and quarterly priorities, success metrics, and resource plans. Advise on tradeoffs among business impact, risk, cost, speed, and team capacity. Develop the Legal Operations budget, oversee spend, and manage vendor strategy. Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and simplify Legal processes across Commercial, Corporate, Employment, Product Compliance, and other functions. Directly manage, coach, and develop your Sr. Manager.
**Legal Technology Strategy & Governance**: Serve as executive owner of Scopely's Legal technology portfolio and establish coherent architecture and investment strategy across CLM, knowledge management, matter management, e-billing, contract analytics, and related tools. Own the Legal technology roadmap including selection, implementation sequencing, integration priorities, and long-term scalability. Oversee Ironclad CLM as a critical system, ensuring proper direction, resources, governance, and stakeholder alignment. Establish governance standards for workflow design, metadata, templates, permissions, approval logic, integrations, data retention, and system access. Review and approve significant platform changes. Partner with IT, Information Security, Privacy, Procurement, Finance, and external vendors. Lead system migrations, data consolidation, post-acquisition integrations, and technology transformation initiatives.
**Knowledge Management, Automation & AI**: Establish strategic vision and operating model for Legal knowledge management, including content architecture, taxonomy, ownership, curation, searchability, and access governance. Ensure institutional knowledge is captured, structured, maintained, and accessible to support self-service, consistency, and future AI applications. Develop a portfolio of practical AI and automation use cases in partnership with Legal leadership, IT, and business stakeholders. Oversee implementation and responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools including chatbots, knowledge-based assistants, workflow automation, and contract analytics. Direct your Sr. Manager's hands-on execution of knowledge management and AI initiatives. Define success metrics for AI and automation initiatives. Stay current on legal technology and AI developments.
You will combine strategic judgment, operational discipline, technical fluency, executive presence, and the ability to build trusted partnerships across Legal and the broader business. You will operate as a strategic business partner, not just a support function. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, creating structure where none exists, and leading through influence in a fast-paced global gaming company.
