Legal Operations Lead

Modal Labs, Inc. operates Modal, a serverless cloud and AI infrastructure platform for developers running inference, training, batch processing, and isolated sandboxes.

Series CRecently funded33 current maintainers8 active leads16 lead step-downs5 early lead departuresTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

New York City, United States
About Modal

Modal provides code-first, elastic CPU/GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads, including model inference, fine-tuning and training, large-scale batch jobs, and secure ephemeral execution environments.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build contract lifecycle workflows, legal intake processes, AI-enabled tooling, corporate records, and knowledge-management systems. You will manage compliance filings, stock administration, cap-table hygiene, outside counsel, and legal spend.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or a corporate paralegal role
  • Ability to build and document processes from the ground up
  • Experience configuring Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management workflows and templates
  • Experience with AI tools
  • Sound judgment about handling and escalating matters

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain contract operations, lifecycle workflows, and approval logic
  • Design legal intake processes for internal stakeholders
  • Build and configure AI-enabled legal tooling
  • Manage corporate administration, records, signatures, and knowledge management
  • Manage corporate compliance, entity management, filings, and registered-agent coordination
  • Support stock administration and cap-table hygiene
  • Manage outside counsel and legal spend