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Salary: USD 96,000 - 128,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking an experienced Legal Operations Manager to join the Legal Operations subgroup. You will partner with stakeholders across the organization to scale, modernize, and automate how the global legal team operates, including driving adoption of AI-powered tools and workflows. The Legal team supports Datadog's rapid growth by providing legal services across a dynamic technology company, from driving new business via contracts and compliance to protecting intellectual property. The legal team collaborates with virtually every team across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and continuously improve legal processes end-to-end, partnering with legal and non-legal process owners to drive improvements, optimization, and automation
- Liaise with technical and cross-functional teams to implement solutions, integrate systems, and troubleshoot issues reported by the legal team
- Create and manage SOPs and collaborate with legal and non-legal colleagues on cross-functional projects
- Analyze and use data, including AI-generated insights and dashboards, to drive initiatives, support forecasting and planning, and deliver reporting to legal leadership and other stakeholders
- Manage technology used by the legal team (current tools include Brightflag, Salesforce, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) and become a superuser of new tools
- Champion new systems and emerging AI capabilities
- Support the legal team's outside counsel operations
- Cross-train across functions to operate as a flexible member of a shared services model, enabling coverage, resource-sharing, and consistent process standards
Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. The company values people from all walks of life and encourages applications from those passionate about technology who want to grow their skills.
Requirements:
- At least 6 years of contract, program, or project management experience, ideally within a SaaS or technology company
- Familiarity with program management tools and techniques, including breaking down tasks, roadmapping, assigning owners with timelines, and reporting
- Genuine passion for technology with hands-on experience evaluating or deploying AI and automation tools in a legal or business operations context
- Ability to move forward in times of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge; comfortable acting as a change agent for new ways of working
- Effective communicator and detail-oriented; able to translate technical or AI-related concepts for non-technical legal stakeholders
- High integrity and strong judgment, including sound judgment about the appropriate and responsible use of AI with sensitive legal and business data
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines
