The opportunity
Upwork Inc. 's (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled.
What you'll do
Budget Management: Oversee the department budget by partnering with FP&A and Accounting on monthly accruals, forecasts, and annual planning. Identify vendor savings opportunities to self-fund incremental resources.
Vendor Management: Oversee law firm and other vendor billing. Manage POs and invoices, and track vendor spend and alternative fee arrangements.
Technology Implementation: Play a key role in driving AI initiatives and pushing adoption across the team. Evaluate and manage the Legal tech stack.
Process Development & Improvement: Identify resource gaps, streamline workflows, and drive operational efficiencies across the Legal team.
Team Leadership & Culture: Promote team culture through events, recognition, and operating cadences that keep the Legal team connected and engaged. Plan and coordinate in-person team offsites. Manage agendas for team meetings.
Reporting & Analytics: Collect and analyze team metrics, compiling them into monthly and quarterly business reports. Prepare executive presentations, reports, and documentation.
What they're looking for
- Strategic Initiatives: Manage team-wide and cross-functional projects to support strategic initiatives, ensuring successful execution.
- You have 5+ years of experience in Legal operations, business operations,: strategic project/program management, or related fields with progression into increasing responsibility and strategic scope, preferably with an in-house Legal team.
- Strong financial acumen with experience managing a department budget
- Experience using AI and automation tools to improve efficiency; experience: with evaluating and implementing AI tools is a plus
