Snapshot
The Google DeepMind Legal team provides proactive and strategic legal counseling to accelerate DeepMinds best-in-class research ensure smooth operations and enable fast-paced progress towards our mission. We are looking for an adept and enthusiastic Head of Legal Ops to oversee our legal operations support with a focus on legal team efficiency.
About Us
Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanitys most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind were a team of scientists engineers machine learning experts and more working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery and collaborate with others on critical challenges ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.
The Role
In this role you will partner closely with teams from across Google DeepMind to provide legal ops support.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the Legal Operations team managing a high performing team of legal ops professionals driving strategic planning and execution for a growing legal department and overseeing daily operations of the legal team.
- Develop and manage the legal departments annual budget including forecasting spend tracking cost-saving initiatives
- Manage the departments technology stack. Lead the exploration development and integration of AI-powered tools and other legal tech solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Oversee and manage relationships with legal vendors including law firms and technology providers ensuring optimal service delivery and cost-effectiveness.
- Drive the identification development and implementation of streamlined and efficient processes across the legal department to improve productivity scalability service delivery and support operational risk mitigation.
- Develop and implement a data-driven approach by establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) generating regular reports and providing actionable insights to inform decision-making.
- Champion and implement effective knowledge management strategies and systems to ensure critical legal information precedents and resources are organized accessible and leveraged across the team.
- Partner closely with other teams across Google DeepMind and Alphabet to ensure alignment and support for legal initiatives and operations.
About You
In order to set you up for success as a Head of Legal Operations at Google DeepMind we look for the following skills and experience:
- You are a strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills capable of seeing the bigger picture while also paying attention to detail. You have a strong commitment to continuous improvement and are always looking for ways to make things better faster or more efficient.
- You are strategic in your thinking around legal resource deployment leading and prioritizing efficiency efforts for a growing legal team.
- You thrive in dynamic environments enjoy variety in your work and have a get-stuck-in mentality where no task is too big or too small.
- You are resourceful enjoy managing your own work and projects autonomously and demonstrate strong ownership and accountability. You take the initiative to identify needs solve problems and drive projects forward.
- You possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly and collaborate and build strong relationships across all levels.
- You are skilled at synthesizing complex information and briefing senior leadership concisely and effectively to support decision-making.
- You are adept at balancing legal considerations with cultural nuances and business objectives consistently producing practical solution-focused advice and outcomes.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $192000 - $270000 bonus equity benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.
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