Legal Operations Manager
About Us:
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team:
Innovative Mission: We are developing a safe, healthcare-focused large language model (LLM) designed to revolutionize health outcomes on a global scale.
Visionary Leadership: Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from leading institutions, including El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA.
Strategic Investors: We have raised a total of $278 million in funding, backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
World-Class Team: Our team is composed of leading experts in healthcare and artificial intelligence, ensuring our technology is safe, effective, and capable of delivering meaningful improvements to healthcare delivery and outcomes.
For more information, visit www.HippocraticAI.com.
We value in-person teamwork and believe the best ideas happen together. Our team is expected to be in the office five days a week in Palo Alto, CA, unless explicitly noted otherwise in the job description
About the Role
We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented Legal Operations Manager to join our growing legal team. Reporting to our General Counsel, this role will be responsible for driving operational excellence within the legal department, managing key systems and processes, and optimizing how the legal function supports the broader business. The ideal candidate is highly organized, tech-savvy, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM): Lead the administration, optimization, and ongoing improvement of the contract lifecycle management process, ensuring consistency, visibility, and efficiency across contract intake, review, execution, and post-signature obligations.
Contract Management System Administration: Serve as the system owner for the contract management platform, managing user access, workflows, templates, metadata, reporting, and integrations with other enterprise systems (e.g., Salesforce, procurement tools).
Process & Workflow Optimization: Streamline legal processes and implement best practices to increase efficiency and reduce friction across the department.
Technology & Tools Management: Oversee the selection, implementation, and maintenance of legal technology platforms, including CLM, e-billing, matter management, and knowledge management tools.
Knowledge Management: Develop and maintain internal knowledge bases, templates, and playbooks to support consistent legal guidance and reduce repetitive work.
Metrics & Reporting: Define and monitor KPIs for legal performance and provide actionable insights through regular reporting to legal leadership.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between legal and other departments (e.g., sales, procurement, finance, IT, compliance) to ensure smooth communication and alignment.
Project Management: Lead or support legal department projects, including compliance initiatives, audits, and strategic planning efforts.
Qualifications
Must Have:
5+ years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, or contract operations.
Hands-on experience with contract lifecycle management platforms and administration of contract management systems (e.g., ContractSafe, Agiloft, or similar).
Strong understanding of legal department functions, law firm operations, and legal tech landscape.
Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Comfortable working independently and managing multiple priorities.
Bachelor’s degree required; JD or MBA a plus but not required.
Nice to Have:
Experience in a corporate legal department at a fast-growing company.
Familiarity with legal process automation and data visualization tools.
LegalOps certification (e.g., CLOC) or project management credentials (e.g., PMP).
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At Hippocratic AI, we’re on a mission to revolutionize healthcare with our cutting-edge safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM). We're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Legal Operations Manager to join our dynamic legal team based in Palo Alto. This role is about more than just legal matters—it's about creating a strong operational foundation for our growing team. You will be the driving force behind our contract lifecycle management process, ensuring that every contract is efficiently managed and aligns with our strategic goals. With over five years of experience in legal operations, you’ll know how to optimize our contract management systems and enhance cross-departmental collaboration between legal and other teams like sales and IT. If you have excellent analytical skills, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are passionate about making healthcare better through technology, Hippocratic AI is the place for you. We can’t wait to see how your expertise will help shape innovative legal processes that support our mission of improving health outcomes on a global scale. Join us, and let’s make a real difference together!
Hippocratic AI is building a safety-focused large language model (LLM) for the healthcare industry. We believe that generative AI has the potential to massively increase healthcare access the world over but has to be built and tested responsibly. ...
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