Head of Legal Operations & Chief of Staff, Scale AI
$180.6-225.8k
Training and validation data for AI applications
Be an early applicant
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180.6-225.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, with a solid background in Legal Operations, Strategy, or Management Consulting in a high-growth environment
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required. An Engineering degree, MBA, or JD is a significant plus
- Technical Proficiency: Practical experience with legal technology (e.g., Ironclad, Brightflag) and a curiosity for how AI/automation can solve routine legal hurdles. Familiarity with litigation-specific tools (e.g., Logikcull, Relativity, or specialized legal hold software) is highly preferred
- Analytical & Risk Modeling: Ability to design and maintain strategic risk registers and financial models. You can translate raw data from various workstreams into a cohesive risk landscape (e.g., impact vs. likelihood heatmaps) that informs executive decision-making. Partner with the GC and Legal Leadership to model potential exposure, manage entity-related risks, and inform corporate reserves
- Mindset: A pragmatic, "get it done" attitude. You can navigate ambiguity, represent the GC in executive forums, and prioritize the tasks that provide the most value to the department
- Communication: Exceptional ability to translate operational data into clear, concise updates for the GC and executive leadership
What the job involves
- The Head of Legal Operations and Chief of Staff acts as the primary strategic partner to the General Counsel, ensuring the department’s operational goals are in lockstep with the company’s broader vision
- This role is responsible for turning the Legal & Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team into a high-performing business unit–- providing the processes, technology, and data insights necessary to enable a 30+-person global team
- You will lead a 2-person Legal Operations team, focusing on high-level strategy and enabling your team to lead their respective workstreams with high degrees of autonomy and accountability
- Strategic Partnership (Chief of Staff): Partner with the GC and Legal Leadership (Commercial, Corporate, Litigation, Product, GRC, and Public Sector) to define and execute long-term strategy. Own operational planning cycles, including the OKR process, roadmap development, and All-Hands meetings, to ensure cross-functional alignment and maximize the team’s impact
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Manage and mentor the Contracts Manager and Legal Program Manager, empowering them to lead their functional areas with high autonomy. Provide mentorship on a dotted-line basis to subject matter experts (e.g., Corporate Paralegal, Privacy Program Manager), ensuring process consistency and high-standard workstreams across the broader Legal & GRC organization
- Success Management: Design and own the reporting framework for tracking departmental success. Oversee the development of automated dashboards that provide real-time progress against goals, utilizing AI to synthesize data into actionable insights for the GC and Legal Leadership Team
- Legal Finance & Vendor Strategy: Manage the global Legal budget, forecasting, and accruals. While partnering with the Procurement team for general needs, you will directly lead the strategy for Legal-specific vendors, including outside counsel and legal tech providers. Drive outside counsel management strategy, emphasizing data-driven performance reviews and the negotiation of arrangements that optimize litigation and specialty matter spend
- Process & Technology: Maintain and optimize a world-class Legal & GRC tech stack (e.g., CLM, e-billing, and litigation tools). Drive business velocity by designing streamlined intake and triage systems for Product and Engineering teams and implementing practical, automated workflow solutions
- Risk & Litigation Operations: Direct the litigation technology strategy, including the legal hold lifecycle and e-discovery workflows, to ensure defensible compliance in partnership with IT and Security. Develop and maintain strategic risk registers that provide the GC, Legal Leadership, and executive leadership with a clear, data-driven view of the company’s risk landscape
Our take
When training AI models, lack of access to large scale, high quality, labelled data is often the barrier preventing machine learning teams from building something great. In fact, labelled data is even more essential than the algorithms themselves. Scale AI is solving this by providing easy access through developer APIs to a huge variety of labelled data sets covering a large range of areas within computer vision and natural language processing.
It seems that almost every company now is offering artificial intelligence enabled products to automate every aspect of our lives. So, by positioning themselves as the go-to source for high quality tagged data, Scale AI is in an excellent position as the AI sector continues it's exponential growth.
With innovative AI projects across a range of sectors including retail, energy, and healthcare, Scale AI is now a leader in the industry alongside OpenAI. It continues to forge partnerships with fintech tools and software engine developers such as Brex and Luminar to continue its evolution of digital markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1bn
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing: Our holistic approach to supporting Scaliens includes comprehensive health coverage, dental and vision insurance, mental healthcare services, and more. PTO policies and accommodating schedules ensure you’ll get time off when you need it to relax and recharge. Note that our offerings may vary by region as we strive to respond to the unique needs of Scaliens around the globe.
- Personal & Career Growth: Continuously learn and grow through annual learning & development stipend, attending leadership breakfasts, manager training, speaker series, and joining an ERG.
- Building Scale Community: We welcome guests to our offices, and you can expect to see Scalien families and friends around. Join local happy hours, and accept invites to game nights, book clubs, and many other employee-led community events.
- Parental Support: Balancing work and family is essential, and Scale understands the importance of having adequate leave policies in place to promote a healthy home and work life.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexandr Wang
(Founder & CEO)Previously, Alexandr was an Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading, a Tech Lead and Quora and a Software Engineer at Addepar.
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