Dolby Careers Director, Legal Operations

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby science meets art and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team youll see and hear the results of your work everywhere from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create deliver and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that we need the absolute best talent. Were big enough to give you all the resources you need and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture challenging projects and excellent compensation and benefits.

For this high functioning team the nature of the work benefits from frequent in-office presence and employees may be expected to work from a company office up to four days per week. While we remain committed to flexibility this teams rhythm includes regular in-person connection to support collaboration learning and impact.

TheLegalDepartment provides core legal support to all Dolby functions runs several IP-centric businesses and leads government relations.

The Director of Legal Operations is a strategic leader responsible for enabling a high-performing data-driven and technology-enabled Legal organization. This role oversees the operational infrastructure supporting Dolbys global Legal organization and partners closely with executive leaders across Legal Finance IT People & Places Security and business functions.

The Director will lead a team of legal operations professionals and serve as a catalyst for operational excellence transformation and organizational effectiveness. This role will drive the Legal departments strategy planning communications technology roadmap vendor management knowledge management capabilities.

A critical aspect of this role is identifying implementing and scaling emerging technologies including generative AI and legal-specific artificial intelligence solutions to enhance productivity improve decision-making reduce risk and enable the department to focus on higher-value work.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of operational rigor business acumen change leadership and demonstrated success leveraging technology and AI to transform legal service delivery in a complex global environment.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Lead coach and develop a high-performing legal operations team.
• Foster a culture of innovation accountability collaboration inclusion continuous learning and operational excellence.
• Build organizational capability in legal technology process improvement analytics and AI adoption.

Strategic Planning & Transformation

• Partner with Legal leadership to define and execute the departments long-term strategic roadmap.
• Drive change management initiatives that improve organizational effectiveness scalability and employee experience.
• Establish annual objectives key results metrics and operational priorities aligned with business goals.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts across legal processes services and operating models.

AI Automation & Technology Innovation

• Develop and lead the Legal organizations technology and AI strategy.
• Identify evaluate implement and govern legal technology platforms including contract lifecycle management e-billing matter management intellectual property systems document automation knowledge management and AI-enabled legal solutions.
• Champion responsible adoption of generative AI tools and workflows to improve efficiency knowledge retrieval contract review legal research matter management drafting and reporting.
• Establish governance risk management security compliance and ethical use frameworks for AI-enabled legal technologies.
• Partner with IT Security and Privacy teams to ensure legal technology solutions meet enterprise standards.
• Monitor emerging legal technology and AI trends and recommend innovative solutions that create measurable business value.

Operational Excellence

• Design and implement scalable processes policies and operating procedures that improve efficiency service quality and risk management across the Legal function.
• Create and maintain operational frameworks that support a growing global legal organization.
• Lead departmental planning resource allocation and operational governance activities.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Partner with Business Operations to oversee the Legal departments budget forecasting accrual management and financial planning processes including identifing cost optimization opportunities and improve spend transparency.
• Manage outside counsel and legal service providers including selection performance oversight fee negotiations billing guideline compliance and vendor governance.
• Implement data-driven approaches to managing legal spend and maximizing return on external resources.

Knowledge Management & Productivity

• Lead enterprise-class knowledge management initiatives that improve access to legal expertise templates policies playbooks and institutional knowledge.
• Implement AI-enabled knowledge discovery and content management capabilities that improve attorney productivity and consistency.
• Promote standardization and reuse of legal resources across the global organization.

Employee Engagement

• Lead Legal department employee engagement initiatives and large-scale organizational events including all-employee meetings leadership forums and global summits.
• Ensure employees are informed aligned and connected to department priorities and business objectives.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Build strong partnerships across Legal Finance IT Security Procurement People & Places and business organizations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on operational strategy technology investments AI adoption and organizational effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Operations Information Systems Legal Studies or related field.
• 10 years of progressive experience in Legal Operations Legal Technology Contract Administration or related functions.
• 5 years of people leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated success leading legal operations within a complex global publicly traded organization.
• Direct experience implementing and scaling legal technology platforms including CLM e-billing matter management intellectual property systems knowledge management tools or similar technologies.
• Proven experience evaluating implementing and driving adoption of AI-enabled solutions within legal compliance or corporate functions.
• Strong understanding of AI governance responsible AI principles data privacy information security and regulatory considerations affecting legal technology.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar budgets vendor relationships and outside counsel programs.
• Strong analytical financial project management and change leadership skills.
• Exceptional executive communication stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• J.D. MBA or other advanced degree.
• Certification in Legal Operations Project Management Process Improvement or Change Management.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.
• Deep familiarity with generative AI platforms legal AI solutions workflow automation technologies and emerging legal technology trends.

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is 212300 - 292000 which can vary if outside this locationplus bonus benefits and some roles may also include equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills competencies experience market demands internal parity and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code Article 49 and Administrative Code Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Dolby is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race religious creed color age sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin religion marital status family status medical condition disability military service pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal state and local laws and ordinances.