About the Role

We’re looking for a legal operations rockstar to join our fast-growing legal team and serve as the operational and financial backbone of Verkada’s legal function. You'll be joining a team of one, reporting directly to the Head of Legal Operations (a direct report to the General Counsel). Together, you’ll be an army of two owning all aspects of legal operations.

This role is all about building. To start, you will focus on upleveling our legal spend management program: budgeting, forecasting, vendor oversight, and financial operations across the entire Legal organization. At the same time, you'll lean more and more into helping build the engine that keeps the legal team running and modernizing it with AI over time. You will need to be highly organized, analytically sharp, and comfortable owning complex, cross-functional workstreams. Strong accounting, budgeting, and forecasting skills will go a long way here! If you love rolling up your sleeves and building things, this role is for you!

We are an “in the office” company and based in our headquarters in San Mateo, CA.

What You'll Do

• Own the legal spend, top to bottom. Take full ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and planning. Build and maintain dashboards and reporting, manage legal vendors through our billing platform, and drive spend discipline and vendor accountability.
• Partner with Finance. Work closely with Verkada’s Finance team on budgeting cycles and fiscal year planning.
• Build the backbone. Drive a wide variety of initiatives that improve how the legal team functions, including internal and external workflows, record-keeping standards, and file organization systems.
• Automate and modernize. Solve problems by automating manual processes using AI tools, APIs, platform integrations, and process design.
• Support legal functions across the board. Build and refine processes for a variety of legal functions, including litigation, IP management, product, privacy, and employment.
• Own the contracting lifecycle. Take ownership of operational support across the contracting lifecycle, including driving adoption and optimization of our CLM system.

What You Bring

• 3 to 6+ years in legal operations, legal financial management, paralegal work, or a comparable in-house role with ownership of complex workflows.
• Solid experience with budgeting, forecasting, accruals, spend management, vendor oversight, and eBilling platforms, as well as strong spreadsheet skills in Google Sheets or Excel.
• Experience with CLM tools and eDiscovery and legal hold processes.
• A proven ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and move work forward without hand holding, coupled with exceptional attention to detail and follow through.
• Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with our core platforms: Google Workspace, SimpleLegal (preferred), MS 365, Drivetrain, Logikcull, Ironclad, DocuSign, Slack, and Monday.com.
• Comfort thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where the needs and opportunities evolve quickly.

Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.