Director, Legal Operations

Scopely is seeking a Director Legal Operations to join our Legal team. This role will lead the Legal Operations function and establish the strategy operating model technology roadmap governance framework and performance infrastructure for a global high-growth Legal department. This role will be a hybrid position in our Culver City CA hub.

The Director will directly manage the Sr. Manager Legal Operations who owns day-to-day Ironclad CLM operations knowledge management infrastructure and AI-enabled legal technology implementation. The Director will provide strategic direction prioritize the teams roadmap manage resources and vendors and remain accountable for the quality adoption and business impact of these programs.

This is a senior people-leadership and functional-building role for someone who can translate Legal leaderships priorities into scalable systems processes and measurable outcomes. The right candidate will combine strategic judgment operational discipline technical fluency executive presence and the ability to build trusted partnerships across Legal and the broader business . as a strategic business partner not just a support or systems-administration function. They will be comfortable operating in ambiguity creating structure where none exists and leading through influence in a fast-paced global gaming company.

What You Will Do

Legal Operations Strategy & Functional Leadership

• Partner directly with Legal leadership to define and execute a multi-year Legal Operations strategy aligned with Scopelys business priorities and growth
• Translate Legal department priorities into an integrated roadmap covering technology process improvement data knowledge management automation training and organizational capability
• Establish annual and quarterly priorities success metrics resource plans and sequencing recommendations for the Legal Operations team
• Advise Legal leadership on tradeoffs among business impact risk cost speed and available team capacity
• Develop the Legal Operations budget oversee spend build business cases for new investments and manage vendor and renewal strategy
• Identify opportunities to standardize automate and simplify Legal processes across Commercial Corporate Employment Product Compliance and other Legal functions
• Directly manage coach and develop the Sr. Manager Legal Operations who owns Ironclad CLM operations knowledge management infrastructure and AI implementation

Legal Technology Strategy & Governance

• Serve as the executive owner of Scopelys Legal technology portfolio and establish a coherent architecture and investment strategy across CLM knowledge management matter management e-billing contract analytics automation and related tools
• Own the Legal technology roadmap including technology selection implementation sequencing integration priorities system rationalization and long-term scalability
• Oversee Ironclad CLM as a critical Legal and business system ensuring that the Sr. Manager has the direction resources governance framework and stakeholder alignment necessary to operate the platform effectively
• Establish governance standards for workflow design metadata templates permissions approval logic integrations repository integrity data retention change management and system access
• Review and approve significant platform changes balancing user experience business needs control requirements data integrity and long-term maintainability
• Partner with IT Information Security Privacy Procurement Finance and external vendors on architecture security integrations implementation support and risk management
• Lead or oversee system migrations data consolidation efforts post-acquisition integrations and other technology transformation initiatives

Knowledge Management Automation & AI

• Establish the strategic vision and operating model for Legal knowledge management including content architecture taxonomy ownership curation searchability version control and access governance
• Ensure that Legals institutional knowledge is captured structured maintained and made accessible in ways that support self-service consistency and future AI applications
• Develop a portfolio of practical AI and automation use cases for Legal in partnership with Legal leadership IT and relevant business stakeholders
• Oversee the implementation and responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools including chatbots knowledge-based assistants workflow automation contract analytics and other emerging technologies
• Direct the Sr. Managers hands-on execution of knowledge management and AI initiatives including platform configuration testing content population user feedback optimization and rollout
• Define success metrics for AI and automation initiatives including adoption response quality time saved reduction in repetitive inquiries and measurable improvements to the Legal user experience
• Stay current on legal technology and AI developments and make informed recommendations regarding opportunities risks and investment priorities

Process Improvement & Business Partnership

• Serve as a strategic partner to Legal leadership Procurement Finance Information Security IT People Product and other stakeholders to improve the end-to-end process of contracting and Legal support experience
• Establish scalable intake triage and routing models that direct work to the appropriate Legal or business resource and minimize unnecessary attorney involvement
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to identify recurring friction diagnose root causes and implement structural solutions rather than one-off fixes
• Support Legal leadership to define and adopt practical playbooks self-service resources approval frameworks and standardized workflows

Data Analytics & Performance Management

• Act as a strategic partner with Commercial Legal to design and monitor metrics such as contracting cycle times intake volumes routing accuracy self-service rates workflow adoption support trends system reliability automation impact and stakeholder satisfaction
• Establish a Legal Operations performance framework that measures the efficiency quality adoption capacity and business impact of Legal services and systems
• Create executive-ready dashboards and reporting for Legal leadership highlighting trends risks opportunities and recommended actions
• Use data to support capacity planning prioritization investment decisions vendor management and continuous improvement

What Were Looking For

• 7-10 years of experience in Legal Operations legal technology business operations process transformation consulting or a related field with clear progression in scope responsibility and organizational leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading or building a Legal Operations function within a high-growth technology gaming entertainment digital media or similarly complex global company
• At least 35 years of experience managing coaching and developing professionals including experience setting priorities delegating ownership giving feedback and building team capability
• Experience establishing a Legal Operations strategy operating model roadmap budget governance framework and performance-measurement program
• Significant experience with enterprise CLM programs including Ironclad or a comparable platform. Direct Ironclad administration experience is strongly preferred; the candidate must have sufficient technical depth to evaluate platform architecture workflow design data governance integrations controls and adoption
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets negotiate with vendors assess technology investments and measure realized value
• Experience overseeing legal technology portfolios beyond CLM such as knowledge management e-billing matter management contract analytics automation compliance or AI-enabled tools
• Proven ability to build or mature a knowledge management function and translate institutional knowledge into structured searchable reusable content
• Experience evaluating implementing governing or scaling AI and automation tools in a professional-services legal technology or corporate environment
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills with the ability to identify patterns diagnose root causes and design solutions that scale
• Excellent executive presence and communication skills with the ability to influence senior Legal and business leaders and translate technical or operational issues into clear business decisions
• Strong project and change-management skills including the ability to lead complex initiatives across multiple teams with competing priorities
• A highly collaborative practical and service-oriented leadership style with the judgment to balance user experience business enablement risk management and operational discipline
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced evolving environment and the ability to create clarity structure and momentum amid ambiguity

Nice to Have

• Experience leading Legal Operations in a gaming interactive entertainment digital media or consumer technology company
• Direct experience with Ironclad contract analytics legal knowledge platforms or similar tools
• Experience with post-acquisition Legal technology integrations data migrations or operating-model integration
• Experience managing outside counsel legal vendors e-billing matter management or Legal department spend
• Experience developing responsible-use standards or governance frameworks for AI in a Legal or regulated environment
• Experience partnering with geographically distributed teams and supporting global Legal operations
• A sense of humor and a passion for mobile gaming

What Success Looks Like

Within the first year the Director will have established a clear Legal Operations strategy and roadmap; created a well-functioning operating model for the Legal Operations team; enabled the Sr. Manager to own day-to-day CLM knowledge management and AI execution; implemented a consistent performance-reporting framework; strengthened governance across Legal technology; and delivered measurable improvements in self-service workflow adoption contracting efficiency and Legal team capacity.

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Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Scopely Explore games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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