Senior Paralegal, Legal Operations
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Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150000 - 225000
Posted on:
7 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Senior Paralegal Legal Operations will partner closely with the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) to support legal strategy execution and operational priorities across the company. This role serves as a key connector between legal and the business with a particular focus on litigation and dispute support internal discovery leadership data-driven analysis and the development and implementation of scalable legal processes and workflows.
This role also provides direct support to the Chief Legal Officer in managing day-to-day priorities including managing the CLOs calendar meetings and key deliverables. The position requires strong organizational skills and the ability to anticipate needs manage competing priorities and ensure the CLOs time and focus are aligned with the companys most critical legal and strategic initiatives.
This individual will lead internal efforts related to document collection organization and analysis in connection with litigation partnership deliverables regulatory matters and other legal initiatives. The role requires working closely with development finance operations and other teams to gather and validate information reconcile data across sources and support defensible legal and business positions.
In addition to litigation support this role will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable legal operations processes including tracking legal matters managing documentation workflows and supporting executive-level deliverables.
The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in ambiguity highly detail-oriented and able to translate complex legal and business information into clear organized work product. This individual demonstrates strong judgment professionalism and discretion when handling sensitive and confidential matters.
The ideal candidate demonstrates strong judgment professionalism discretion and a collaborative high-integrity approach.
This is a hybrid role and the ideal candidate must be willing to work in the Denver office three times per week.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Litigation & Dispute Support
- Support active litigation and dispute matters including managing document collection organizing case materials and coordinating with outside counsel
- Lead internal discovery efforts working cross-functionally to identify collect and validate relevant documents and information
- Track deadlines requests and deliverables related to litigation and regulatory matters
- Assist in preparing materials for legal strategy filings and internal decision-making
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Partner with executive leadership team leads and cross-functional stakeholders across development finance operations and other functions
- Serve as a key interface between legal the business and third parties ensuring alignment and timely execution of legal-related requests
- Independently source gather and validate data and documentation across multiple internal systems and external sources
- Translate legal requests into clear actionable guidance for internal teams and follow through to completion
- Identify and resolve inconsistencies across legal documents financial models and operational data
- Formulate clear thoughtful and well-supported responses to internal and external inquiries
Data Systems & Deliverables
- Own the compilation validation and packaging of complex cross-functional deliverables including materials supporting litigation regulatory matters and executive decision-making
- Utilize internal systems data platforms and software tools to locate extract and analyze relevant information in support of legal matters
- Develop a strong working knowledge of company data systems (e.g. project tracking tools document repositories financial models)
- Perform detailed QA/QC across legal documents financial models and operational data to ensure consistency and defensibility
- Reconcile discrepancies across data sources and proactively identify gaps inconsistencies or risks
- Produce clear well-structured outputs suitable for executive investor or external use
- Support the development of more efficient data retrieval reporting and documentation processes
Legal Operations
- Own and manage legal tracking systems including matter tracking document repositories and workflow tools
- Build evaluate and refine scalable processes for document management and cross-functional coordination
- Support the creation of internal templates trackers and best practices
- Prepare summaries presentations and internal communications related to legal matters and business initiatives
- Support executive-level reporting and materials as needed
Executive Support to CLO
- Manage the CLOs calendar including scheduling meetings prioritizing time and coordinating across internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate and prepare materials for executive meetings board interactions and key internal discussions
- Track and manage follow-ups action items and deadlines on behalf of the CLO
- Assist in prioritizing incoming requests and ensuring timely responses
- Support preparation of presentations communications and executive-level materials
- Serve as a central point of coordination for the CLO ensuring efficient communication and alignment across teams
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience as a paralegal legal operations professional or similar role (litigation experience strongly preferred)
- Experience supporting litigation including discovery document management and coordination with outside counsel
- Experience supporting senior executives including calendar management meeting coordination and executive-level deliverables
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with executive leadership senior stakeholders and external partners
- Experience supporting executive and board-level processes including preparing materials coordinating cross-functional inputs developing presentations and managing timelines for recurring meetings (e.g. monthly or quarterly reviews)
- Strong analytical and data capability including the ability to independently source analyze and reconcile legal financial and operational information to support decision-making and produce defensible outputs
- Experience working with internal tools and software platforms to extract and manage data (e.g. document management systems project tracking tools financial systems)
- Ability to connect and reconcile legal operational and financial information to support decision-making and produce defensible outputs
- Highly organized and process-oriented with a demonstrated track record of building refining and scaling workflows and operational processes
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to drive alignment and move workstreams forward across diverse teams
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills including the ability to formulate thoughtful well-supported responses to internal and external inquiries
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced evolving environment while maintaining accuracy and accountability
- Demonstrated sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive matters
$150000 - $225000 a year
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
The estimated base salary range for this position is $150000 - $225000 along with eligibility for the companys substantial bonus plan with a target bonus of 30% of annual salary (prorated in the first year based on start date). Compensation will be based on factors such as location level job-related knowledge certifications skills and experience.
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees placing an emphasis on company culture and a focus on our people. To that end Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:
- Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
- Four weeks of vacation (prorated in first year)
- Company-paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) matching
- Home Office set-up stipend for new employees
- Public transit reimbursement
- PTO for volunteering in the community
- Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
- Professional development and educational reimbursements
A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.
Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops finances builds owns and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nations electricity increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denvers Best Places to Work we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment thriving society and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental social and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community our employees customers shareholders and the more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot our core values guide our work internally and externally:
Impact We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people communities and the planet
Balance Put family first; work hard/have fun
Determination Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
Professionalism Impress everyone we touch be a team player
Honesty Be truthful and transparent externally and internally
Kindness Create an environment where kindness empathy and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture rooted in mutual respect that supports a workforce of different generations races gender identities sexual orientations ability statuses religions and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building celebrates each others successes and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings assessments and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices such as employee allyship building cross-cultural communications and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes empowers and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
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Senior IC
