Paralegal, Legal Operations

**About Remote**:
**All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us**

**The position**:
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a **Paralegal, Legal Operations** joining our Legal Team.

We are looking for a talented and eager paralegal to focus on operations of the legal department. As Remote is increasing its global footprint, every expansion to a new country brings corporate, labour, and tax law issues. The legal team is responsible for the legal soundness of the business model, incorporation, and contract templates, along with contract negotiation and redlining, data protection and compliance. Next to this, we perform a legal analysis on new products and services, and advise other teams on legal matters.

**What this job can offer you**:
As a Paralegal in the legal department, your will support our the entire legal team with these tasks. As part of your responsibilities focused on legal operations, this role will also involve:

- Organizing, redirecting, and distributing legal tasks on our project board (ASANA) and legal-help channel (Slack)
- This includes coordinating complex projects and everyday tasks, ensuring that members of the legal team can focus on their work and no one person is taking on too much
- Determining root causes for bottlenecks in our internal processes and recommending and implementing solutions
- This includes tracking, benchmarking, analysing, and reporting on ongoing legal tasks and projects
- Working with other teams at Remote to create efficient processes so that legal questions can be answered in a timely manner
- This includes helping teams "self-serve" and answer their own questions through proper documentation and training

Because Remote is growing rapidly, we need to develop the legal department and this will provide you with the opportunity to develop alongside the legal department in the direction of your choosing. We want to empower you to own (one of our five core values) your projects and tasks as you become a key member of the Legal Team. This will initially be an individual contributor role.

**What you bring**:

- Legal Operations or similar experience working in a legal environment preferred
- Law background a plus but not essential
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills and reading comprehension
- Ability to switch between multiple different projects
- Comfort with Excel/Sheets and generating simple statistics such as average task times, work distribution percentages, etc.

**Practicals**:

- **You'll report to**: Head of Legal; Legal Team
- **Team**: Legal
- **Location**: Anywhere in the World
- **Start date**: As soon as possible

**Remote Compensation Philosophy**:
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

**Application process**:

- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with Legal Hiring Managers
- Interview with other Legal Team members
- Exercise (optional)
- Interview with Head of Legal

**Benefits**:

- unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment

**How you'll plan your day (and life)**:
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your **life-work balance** is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

**How to apply**:
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