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Ares Management · 1 week ago

Associate Vice President, Legal Knowledge & Workflow Management

Bellevue: WA: 10500 NE 8th St. Suite 625

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$150K/yr - $180K/yr

7+ years exp

Ares Management is a leading investment management firm that is seeking a former transactional attorney to join its Legal Strategy + Innovation team. The role focuses on building and operationalizing Ares Legal’s knowledge ecosystem and ensuring consistent legal outcomes through effective workflow design and management.

Asset ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCreditFinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design, document and optimize standardized end-to-end legal workflows that surface authoritative guidance, precedent and decision support at key points in the matter lifecycle

Define intake gates and data requirements that ensure complete, reliable information is captured at the right point in the process to enable systematic knowledge capture, reuse and analytics

Establish approval, escalation and routing logic that drives consistency, accountability and visibility across geographies and lines of business

Develop shared operating standards that allow internal teams and external providers to work from the same playbooks, systems and KPIs

Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to embed knowledge assets and data capture into CLM and related workflow systems

Support Legal Vendor Strategy & Management in embedding playbook adherence, knowledge reuse expectations, data access and insights and performance metrics into service provider governance

Translate legal and business experience into structured playbooks, templates and matter frameworks

Integrate playbook content into CLM and workflow tools to drive compliance and streamline execution

Maintain a single source of truth for process standards and legal guidance and continuously refine content based on user feedback, usage patterns and performance data

Lead pilots and rollouts for new workflows and playbooks, measuring adoption and effectiveness

Define and monitor KPIs such as cycle times, intake completeness and process compliance

Drive a continuous improvement loop using metrics, feedback and automation opportunities

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to standardize workflows and align legal knowledge structures and standards with technology implementation and reporting

Serve as a liaison between practicing attorneys, operations and technology teams to capture expertise and operationalize it at scale

Qualification

Transactional attorneyLegal workflow designKnowledge managementCLM systemsData analysisProject managementCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

JD required. Member in good standing of a U.S. state bar

7+ years total experience, including at least 5+ years as a practicing transactional attorney (corporate, finance, M&A, private equity or fund formations)

Proven ability to design, document and improve legal workflows and processes

Strong understanding of legal service delivery, knowledge management and matter governance

Experience collaborating across legal, business and technology teams to operationalize legal knowledge, standards and decision frameworks

Excellent communication, documentation and project management skills with the ability to translate legal judgment into clear, reusable guidance

Preferred

Experience as an in-house counsel in a regulated or data/process-intensive industry with demonstrated responsibility for precedent, guidance or playbook development

Experience in legal operations, consulting or business process design with a focus on knowledge enablement or operating model design

Familiarity with CLM, workflow automation and matter management systems

Comfort using data and KPIs to track knowledge adoption and process performance and drive decisions