[Hiring] Senior Manager, Legal Contracts and Operations @The Channel Company

Role Description

The Channel Company is building its legal function. As Senior Manager, Legal Contracts and Operations, you will be the operational backbone of the legal department, partnering directly with the General Counsel to stand up scalable legal processes, manage the company's contract portfolio, and drive efficiency across all legal workflows. This is a high-visibility, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to shape a legal department, not just support one.

What you'll do

• Contracts & Workflow Management
  • Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle for all commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, sponsorship agreements, event contracts, and vendor agreements.
  • Along with the Operations team, build and manage the company's contract management system, implementing CLM tools and establishing intake, review, and approval workflows.
  • Conduct first-pass review of commercial agreements against company templates and approved fallback positions, escalating non-standard terms to the General Counsel.
  • Under the direction of the General Counsel, develop and maintain the company's template library, playbooks, and clause banks for high-volume agreement types.
  • Track and manage contract obligations, renewal dates, and key milestones across the portfolio.
• Legal Operations & Systems
  • Identify and implement legal technology solutions to scale the department's capacity.
  • Support corporate governance, entity management, and regulatory compliance filings.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and workflows to increase legal department efficiency, including CLM playbook automation and contract review optimization.
• Cross-Functional & Administrative Support
  • Serve as the central point of contact for the legal department, managing the legal, compliance, and contracts inboxes, triaging requests, and ensuring timely responses to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Events, and Finance teams to streamline legal touchpoints and reduce bottlenecks.
  • Support legal needs for sales and live events, including venue contracts, speaker agreements, sponsor agreements, and on-site vendor arrangements.
  • Manage legal department scheduling, meeting coordination, and preparation of agendas, presentations, and briefing materials for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in legal operations, contracts management, or as a paralegal in a corporate legal department or law firm.
• Strong experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts (technology, media, or events industry preferred).
• Familiarity with data privacy agreements and frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, state privacy laws).
• Experience with or strong interest in CLM platforms.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage a high volume of agreements simultaneously.
• Excellent judgment on when to escalate and when to run independently.
• Strong communicator who can translate legal concepts for business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree required; paralegal certificate or legal operations certification (e.g., CLOC, ACC) strongly preferred.

Benefits

• All full-time employees of The Channel Company enjoy benefit offerings such as medical, dental, vision, tele-health, disability, life insurance, health savings accounts, paid parental leave, company matched 401k, unlimited PTO, sick time, and 15 company paid holidays.
• At The Channel Company we truly value work/life balance, are 100% remote, and employees enjoy flexible working hours.
• We are an innovative, collaborative, and inclusive group of employees who come together to overcome challenges and achieve best-in-class results.