Atlassian · 22 hours ago
Head of Legal Technology, Innovation and Operations
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$187K/yr - $294K/yr
10+ years expAtlassian is a leading SaaS company focused on unleashing the potential of every team through innovative software solutions. The Head of Legal Technology, Innovation and Operations will lead a team to drive productivity and innovation within the legal department, implementing technology and processes to enhance operational efficiencies and improve legal workflows.
CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
You will drive and own the Legal technology roadmap and implement AI, tooling, and systems that promote Legal team effectiveness and operational efficiencies. This includes delivering technology and processes that improve contract management, litigation, IP portfolios, entity management, privacy by design, knowledge management and legal spend. In a nutshell, anything that helps our Legal team accelerate positive business impact
You will be responsible for building the Legal team’s tech stack while ensuring the strategic, responsible, and ethical rollout of AI across the team
You will develop trusted relationships with IT and Product leaders and influence their roadmaps and investment areas based on Legal team use cases and priorities, holding regular business reviews with Legal's cross-functional partners
You will develop new ways to track return on investment for our legal technology investments with an eye towards doing more with each tool we use
Be a champion of Atlassian products with other legal teams! Advocate for Atlassian on customer calls, demos, webinars, events, and conferences
Be the “Voice of the Customer,” sharing customer insights and feedback with Atlassian Product teams to shape product strategy and development. In this role, success will look like delivering direct and significant impact on product decisions and roadmaps
Run Legal like a business! You will continue to up-level our systems to collect and report on relevant spend data to improve the efficiency of our legal operations
You will manage the budget for the Legal team and coordinate spend with the General Counsel Leadership Team and our partners in the Finance and People teams
You will manage Legal institutional knowledge and trainings, working closely with Legal’s Program Management Office to up level our centralized knowledge management repository, and standardize processes, practices, ways of working, nomenclature, and templates
Qualification
Required
10+ years of legal technology experience, with direct involvement working with the General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer
Strategic vision with the ability to translate business goals into actionable technology roadmaps in a legal setting. The ability to tell a compelling story and explain the 'why' behind this strategic vision
A history of trusted collaboration with IT and R&D teams and building a culture of ongoing process improvement, open feedback loops, and tracking success metrics
Deep experience with generative AI solutions used in legal practice, as well as Atlassian's own products, eBilling, litigation management, knowledge management, and CLMS platforms
Understanding of IT infrastructure, software development, data management, cybersecurity, and AI best practices
Previous success in leading a Legal Technology, Legal Operations, or Practice Innovation team, in hiring world class talent, and developing their careers
A process-oriented approach with experience reducing manual work and increasing operational efficiencies
The ability to retain clear-eyed focus in an ever evolving and maturing environment
A team-oriented and collaborative approach to working
Benefits
Health and wellbeing resources
Paid volunteer days
Company
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company that offers proprietary software products for teamwork, project management, and software development.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$210MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceAccel
2015-12-10IPO
2014-04-08Secondary Market· $150M
2010-07-14Series A· $60M
Leadership Team
Michael Cannon-Brookes
CEO and Co-Founder
Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder and Board Member
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