Legal Operations and Innovation Manager
Point72 Asset Management
- Location
- Stamford, CT
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- H-1B history
- 5 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- 2h ago
About this role
A Career with Point72's Legal Team
Our Legal team’s mission is to deliver exceptional legal services in a manner that promotes the firm’s performance with the utmost integrity. Our Legal department supports all Point72 groups globally with practical advice on a variety of complex legal and regulatory matters in an ever-changing, dynamic environment.
What you'll do
• Build and own the operational backbone for the Legal department, partnering with the General Counsel and department leadership to execute long-term strategy, set priorities, and align resources with firm goals
• Develop and manage the annual legal department budget, track legal spend, identify cost-saving opportunities, and streamline invoice processing
• Improve core legal processes, including matter intake, triage, workflow routing, document management, knowledge management, and operational onboarding
• Design data infrastructure, reporting, and dashboards that show matter volumes, assignments, capacity, cycle times, throughput, and spend trends
• Lead the legal technology roadmap, including the evaluation, implementation, integration, administration, and adoption of systems and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled workflows
• Govern automation and AI use to preserve privilege, respect information barriers, and meet regulatory defensibility expectations
• Manage operational relationships with legal technology vendors and outside counsel, including onboarding, billing guidelines, invoice review, and performance tracking
• Oversee entity management, corporate housekeeping, regulatory calendars, filings tracking, renewals, and operational support for fund-regulation workstreams
• Maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, precedents, data taxonomies, and capture standards that enable consistent reporting and downstream automation
What's required
• At least eight years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, or a comparable operational role
• Experience working in a law firm, asset manager, bank, or other regulated financial institution
• Hands-on experience implementing, administering, or operating a document management system
• Demonstrated ownership of legal processes, vendor and outside counsel management, metrics, and reporting
• Strong project management skills with the ability to run multiple workstreams to completion with minimal oversight
• Excellent judgment when handling confidentiality, privilege, and sensitive information in a high-trust environment
• Strong data orientation, including designing taxonomies, defining data capture requirements, and translating operational data into actionable reporting
• Comfort with legal technology, automation, and AI-enabled workflows, with a practical understanding of how they can improve legal work
• Proven ability to drive process and technology adoption across teams through training, measurement, and stakeholder engagement
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
About Point72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through