Legal Operations Manager

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets’ electrification-as-a-service (EaaS) model aims to make electric school buses and other clean heavy duty vehicles attainable for every district across the US and Canada. Our turnkey solution tackles financing, vehicle procurement, infrastructure upgrade and maintenance to create a reliable and affordable fleet for our customers.

We know that cleaner buses create healthier communities and it’s our mission to eliminate the barriers to better student health and cleaner air - just 10 electric buses will reduce the pediatric asthma risk for 1,500 students!*

We are looking for candidates that want to help support this mission…

*Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Based on estimates for Highland customer with large fleet

Summary:

We are looking for a Legal Operations Manager to join our growing legal team. First and foremost, this role will develop and implement strategies for the legal team, as well as cross-functional, to accelerate and effectively manage our commercial workflows. The role will also include day-to-day operations to help manage customer pipeline, financial closings and related due diligence, and compliance matters.

The ideal candidate has at least five years of legal operations experience. We are not seeking attorney applicants in this role, however a comfort level around commercial contracts is necessary to develop an understanding of our products and ultimately be successful. Prior experience at businesses that sell to government or that provide energy or financial service services is a plus.

The candidate will work in fast-paced startup environment and will be comfortable taking on an array of matters. As a dynamic and fast-growing company in a relatively new space, it is common for the roles and responsibilities of our team members to change over time. However, the primary focus in this role will be to support the legal team and our internal clients to drive better processes (and results) by leveraging technologies and integrating complex cross department workflows.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop strategies to enhance user-experience within CLM platform for legal and business team members;
• Drive CLM platform data and document integrity;
• Evaluate existing and new technologies to support legal team needs;
• Coordinate with Information Systems team members to integrate operational workflows among technologies managed by Operations, Finance, Legal and Sales teams;
• Develop reports and dashboards to support compliance and commercial objectives;
• Support legal, finance, and corporate development teams in building data rooms and supporting closings for finance and M&A transactions;
• Provide pragmatic, business-minded guidance on contract-related issues;
• Support Head of Legal in managing legal budgeting, reporting, and vendor management, including outside counsel and technology vendors;
• Organize legal team meetings, take notes, and follow-up with team members on action items;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by legal team members; and
• Work cross-functionally with other teams in connection with the foregoing.

Additional Responsibilities May Include:

• Coordinate with legal team members to develop training and reference resources – and identify appropriate technology platforms to share resources – for internal clients on recurring legal issues and legal developments;
• Support legal team knowledge management with research and document repositories;
• Develop contract approval processes with legal and business team members;
• Continuously assess and improve legal processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness;
• Work with other departments to update document management practices and folders;
• Support document confidentiality, retention, and similar internal document management policies;
• Handle discovery processes; and
• Find ways to support Highland and its employees using your unique skillset and background.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in legal operations, commercial operations, and compliance
• Understanding of and experience with CLM, CRM, project management, entity management, billing, legal knowledge, data room and similar legal technologies
• Strong, clear and to-the-point communicator with good interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability and availability to work at least two (2) days a week in-office at the company’s Beverly, MA headquarters
• Bachelors degree
• Eligible to work in the United States (visa support not provided)

What You Can Expect from Highland:

· Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program

· A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment

· Opportunities to make a difference, be heard, add value, and be recognized

· Growth and development with a leader in this new and exciting industry

· Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues

· Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents

· Life insurance, public transportation assistance

· Generous Paid Time Off

· 401(k) program and company match

Highland Electric Fleets provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Highland Electric Fleets complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.