As the Senior Manager, Corporate & Legal Operations you will be a key member of the legal team, responsible for strategically implementing day-to-day legal operations, managing workflows, and driving efficiency across the department and cross-functional processes. This role will serve as the operational backbone of the legal department, responsible for building the systems, workflows, and infrastructure that allow the legal team to scale with the Company’s rapid growth. This role combines substantive paralegal work with legal operations responsibilities, requiring someone who can move fluidly between hands-on legal support and process improvement. The position includes direct involvement in corporate finance transactions, supporting debt financing and equity raise processes from document management through closing.
Responsibilities:
- Review and organize contracts, corporate documents, and correspondence
- Manage legal entities, corporate governance filings, and maintenance of corporate records
- Support vendor/third party and corporate due diligence, litigation holds, and document production
- Maintain and organize the legal team's document management systems, templates, and precedent libraries
- Support equity raise transactions, including organization and management of term sheets, stock purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, voting agreements, and related schedules and exhibits
- Manage document workflows for debt financing transactions, including credit agreements, promissory notes, security agreements, guarantees, UCC filings, and ancillary closing documents
- Coordinate closing checklists, signature pages, and closing binders/sets across internal teams, outside counsel, investors, and lenders
- Track and manage conditions precedent and post-closing deliverables, ensuring all parties meet deadlines
- Organize and maintain virtual data rooms for fundraising and due diligence processes
- Assist with KYC/AML documentation requests from lenders and financial institutions
- Design and optimize legal department workflows, including contract lifecycle management, matter intake, and approval routing
Implement and administer technology tools (e.g., CLM platforms, e-billing systems, matter management software) - Manage relationships with technology providers and external legal vendors
- Build reporting dashboards tracking relevant and actionable legal department metrics
- Manage legal department budget tracking, outside counsel spend, invoice review and audit processes, in partnership with Finance
- Develop and maintain playbooks, process documentation, and training materials for recurring legal workflows, including transaction closing procedures
- Coordinate cross-functionally with finance, procurement, HR, and business teams to support legal processes
- Identify opportunities to streamline operations, reduce bottlenecks, and improve the team's efficiency and responsiveness
- Manage contract renewals and deadlines and compliance reporting obligations
- Lead or support special projects as assigned, including policy rollouts, system implementations, and process redesigns
- Ownership mindset: Takes initiative, follows through without prompting, and treats the legal team's work as their own
- Transaction readiness: Comfortable working under tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams during active financings
- Process orientation: Naturally identifies inefficiencies and proposes practical solutions
- Discretion: Handles confidential and sensitive information, including material nonpublic information related to financings, with sound judgment
- Collaboration: Works effectively with attorneys, business partners, investors, lenders, and external vendors at all levels
- Adaptability: Comfortable shifting between strategic projects and tactical execution as priorities evolve
Paralegal Support
Corporate Finance Transaction Support
Legal Operations
Administration & Project Management
Competencies
Requirements:
- 8–12 years of professional experience, including corporate paralegal, legal operations, consulting, or related operational roles; 3+ years of experience in legal operations, legal department management, or legal technology implementation
- Direct experience supporting debt financing, equity raise transactions or complex corporate transactions, including document management, virtual data room management, closing coordination, and post-closing administration
- Strong working knowledge of contract management, corporate governance, and general business law concepts
- Familiarity with common transaction documents (credit agreements, stock purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, UCC filings, and related instruments)
- Experience coordinating complex legal workflows across multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Pro, and document management systems
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program or equivalent credential
- Experience building or scaling legal operations functions in a high-growth company, including process mapping, reporting, and vendor management
- Familiarity with litigation support processes
- Experience implementing CLM or other legal technology platforms.
- Experience managing legal department budgets and outside counsel spend
- Experience supporting regulatory compliance or data privacy programs
- Project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM, or equivalent)
- 100% employer-paid health card
- 401k & Retirement Plans
- Weekly Paid Office Lunches
- End of Year Bonuses
- Fully stocked breakrooms
- Stock Options
- Paid Parental Leave
- Unlimited PTO (exempt) and generous accrued PTO (non-exempt), plus 12
federal holidays off - Pet Insurance
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of professional experience, including corporate paralegal, legal operations, consulting, or related operational roles
- 3+ years of experience in legal operations, legal department management, or legal technology implementation
- Direct experience supporting debt financing, equity raise transactions or complex corporate transactions
- Strong working knowledge of contract management, corporate governance, and general business law concepts
- Familiarity with common transaction documents such as credit agreements and stock purchase agreements
- Experience coordinating complex legal workflows across multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and document management systems
- Paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program or equivalent credential
- Experience building or scaling legal operations functions in a high-growth company
- Familiarity with litigation support processes
- Experience implementing CLM or other legal technology platforms
- Experience managing legal department budgets and outside counsel spend
- Project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM, or equivalent)
Hermeus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hermeus and has not been reviewed or approved by Hermeus.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as employer-paid for employees and dependents, including dental and vision. Feedback suggests this substantially reduces healthcare burden and strengthens overall total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes unlimited PTO for exempt employees, generous accrued PTO for non‑exempt staff, and observed federal holidays. Feedback suggests this breadth aims to support work‑life balance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are guaranteed with all full‑time offers, with potential for additional grants based on performance. Feedback suggests this provides ownership upside alongside base pay and bonuses.
Hermeus Insights
What We Do
Hermeus is a high-speed aircraft manufacturer focused on the rapid design, build, and test of high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the national interest. Working directly with the Department of Defense, Hermeus delivers capabilities that will ensure that our nation, and our allies, maintain an asymmetric advantage over any and all potential adversaries. Utilizing an integrated, hardware-rich, iterative development approach to aircraft design and build, Hermeus aims to deliver advanced air power at a pace not seen in the U.S. since the 1950s. Hermeus’ current Quarterhorse Program is actively unlocking unmanned high-speed flight. One program, four aircraft – each purpose-built to unlock a specific technical challenge, advance learnings, and incrementally de-risk critical technology in the pursuit of hypersonic aircraft. Today, Hermeus is building its second Quarterhorse vehicle, Mk 2, after having designed, built, and flight tested its predecessor, Mk 1, in 18 months. Capable of reaching speeds of Mach 3+, Quarterhorse Mk 2 will be the fastest uncrewed military aircraft in service for national defense. The final iteration of Quarterhorse, Mk 4, will be capable of transitioning from turbofan to ramjet mode utilizing a Hermeus-developed turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion system to achieve sustained speeds of Mach 5+. Hermeus' approach of build-fly-build lays the groundwork for unlocking hypersonic flight at a pace and cost previously deemed impossible. America needs fast planes fast – and Hermeus is delivering them.
Why Work With Us
We prioritize hardware and people. Cutting-edge technology is only made possible by bringing together a world-class team. At Hermeus, you will be challenged – but also empowered. We encourage calculated risks taking and learning from our mistakes. Iteration is the name of the game.
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