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Legal Operations Associate

Rippling

Rippling

Legal, Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jun 27, 2024
About Rippling
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @Rippling.com addresses.
About the role
We are looking for a sharp, highly-motivated, and innately curious Legal Operations Associate to support our growing legal team. This role will build efficient and scalable operations across multiple legal functions, primarily supporting our commercial, litigation, and employment teams. Among other projects, you will help manage our commercial and sales enablement programs; work with our commercial legal team to evaluate new opportunities; draft internal processes for managing litigation and employment matters; and handle data collection, review, and production procedures. The role will report directly to the Deputy General Counsel, but will work closely with other legal and compliance team members and cross-functional stakeholders.
The successful candidate is extremely detail-oriented, responsive in a fast-paced environment, and able to juggle competing priorities. A curious go-getter with strong judgment, highly tuned organizational skills, a positive attitude, and a sense of humor would excel in this role.
* Must be located in San Francisco and come into the office on a hybrid-remote basis.
What you will do
  • Build and support legal operations, including for Rippling’s litigation, employment, and commercial legal teams
  • Create scalable processes for managing commercial relationships and sales enablement, including operations to support efficient resolution of terms of service questions, non-disclosure agreements, partnership agreements, and other contract management issues
  • Coordinate internal litigation and discovery needs, including legal holds, data collection and processing, organization, and document production
  • Create and drive processes around employment legal compliance, including auditing key training and employment document execution and partnering with the legal and recruiting team on processes for other employment document needs
  • Develop, implement, and continually improve legal operations policies, processes, and procedures
What you will need
  • 5+ years experience in a legal operations or paralegal capacity, preferably with a combination of in-house technology company and law firm experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Ability to prioritize, drive and respond to multiple competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex problems in new areas
  • Team player who takes initiative and demonstrates curiosity about how our company and business works
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, self-starting, and comfortable working in a highly dynamic environment
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
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