Sr. Manager Legal Operations

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Position Summary:

F5 Legal is seeking a Senior Manager to lead and scale the operational infrastructure of our global Legal Department. This role reports to the Senior Director Legal Operations and is responsible for driving operational excellence across all aspects of the legal function. You will partner closely with Legal leadership Finance IT Compliance Sales and other teams to ensure the Legal organization operates with measurable efficiency and technological excellence to meet the demands of a fast-moving dynamic global technology company.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage guide and mentor the Legal Operations team ensuring clear ownership alignment and accountability for major initiatives.
• Oversee our suite of legal tools and technology ensuring they are optimized well-integrated and aligned with business needs.
• Lead core Legal Operations functional areas including but not limited to: Financial Management Vendor and Outside Counsel Management Innovation Technology and Tool Management Knowledge Management Communications and Practice Operations.
• Drive the Legal technology stack to increase efficiency improve data-driven decision-making and free legal talent for high-value strategic work.
• Partner with the F5 IT/Digital team to leverage and build solutions for legal analytics dashboards knowledge management contract insights and operational reporting.
• Design solutions that connect business needs with technology.
• Support the Legal Department budget management (outside counsel technology spend and internal expenses) including forecasting accruals and variance analysis in partnership with Finance.
• Manage outside counsel and external vendor spend and guidelines to ensure effective partnerships and strong ROI.
• Develop and maintain strong knowledge management collateral including repositories data integrity standards and review cadences.
• Serve as the voice of the Legal Department through clear strategic communications and targeted campaigns.

• Build and sustain strong Legal Operations support that enables the team to focus on high-impact far-reaching initiatives.
• Maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience building and leveraging data analytics and dashboard capability to measure performance inform resource planning and enable data-driven strategic decision making.
• Experience leading or supporting AI automation or data-driven transformation initiatives within a legal department.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate Legal Operations teams with urgency and focus driving high-quality results through ownership and collaboration.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen.
• Embodies a positive high-performance human-first get it done mindset that is receptive to feedback pushes for excellence and inspires others to overcome challenges.
• Working knowledge of workflow and automation systems (e.g. ServiceNow Ironclad Salesforce Icertis.)
• Excellent communication problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of Operations experience
• 8 years in Legal Operations with 35 years of people management experience.
• Global technology industry experience strongly preferred with the ability to collaborate quickly remain agile and embrace change in a fast-faced environment.
• Bachelors degree in legal studies business or accounting (JD LLM or MBA a plus but not required).
• 2 years of experience developing reports and data analytics to track KPIs.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .