Legal Operations Coordinator

What You'll Do

As our Legal Operations Coordinator, you will provide operational and administrative support to the legal team through implementing and maintaining projects and processes designed to increase efficiency and provide reporting and data analysis to support informed decision-making and identify ongoing opportunities for improvement. You are passionate about driving process improvements, efficiencies, confidence, and accountability while working collaboratively throughout the company and geographies

Every day you will complete daily operations and administration of core legal technology processes, including vendor invoicing and matter management (Brightflag and NetSuite), contract negotiation and repository system management (Ironclad), legal ticket intake triage (Jira), and team events and meetings (Outlook and Zoom).

You will support colleagues in the US/UK and include supporting team members around the world. This role is based in Avalara's Durham office. This is an intern position and you will report to Corporate Counsel at Avalara.

• Analyze legal department data to identify trends, patterns, and areas of potential process optimization and improvement.
• Design and generate reports, dashboards, and data visualizations to measure and evaluate legal department operations.
• Support requirements gathering, design, testing, and change management for implementation of new legal technology solutions.
• Create knowledge-management and operational documentation such as user manuals, training materials, and process maps.
• Support our mission for training, and technical support to legal professionals on technology, tools, and procedures.
• Manage the onboarding of legal vendors and assist with onboarding and offboarding of legal team members.
• Ensure team compliance with legal and business standards.
• Promote legal knowledge management; manage a repository of company forms, agreements, and templates for accuracy and relevance.
• Coordinate and handle legal projects, ensuring understanding of organizational goals and timelines.
• Provide back-up support for contract management.
• Support the general counsel and other legal team members with ad hoc administrative tasks

What You'll Need to be Successful

What you will need to be successful:

• You've worked in an environment where you learned Microsoft Word, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive.
• Experience with Ironclad and Jira
• Undergraduate student or recent undergrad
• Demonstrated experience with, adapting to changing circumstances and dynamics.
• You feel confident working across the legal team's geographic locations
• You know how to utilize new business processes and technologies with an eye to integrating them with existing frameworks.
• Basic knowledge of legal department operations.
• At least 1-2 years related experience.
• Some experience with legal technology or working in a law firm/legal department.

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How We'll Take Care of You

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness

Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity

Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

About Avalara

We're Avalara. We're defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We've already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.

Last year, our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there's nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we're not slowing down - not until we've achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We're bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we've designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We've been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company - we don't want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.