Hiring: Legal Operations Lead Company: HUD Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:25:35 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote About the job Experience: •Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial technology agreements, with the judgment to distinguish routine issues from matters that require specialist legal advice •Comfort working with legal technology, workflow tools, and AI, and an interest in using them to make legal work materially faster and more scalable •Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance legal risk against speed, customer needs, and business priorities •Excellent written communication, attention to detail, and the confidence to push back constructively on sophisticated customers, vendors, and internal stakeholders •Strong Candidates May Also Have Required Skills: •We’re looking for a Legal Operations Lead to build and own the systems, processes, and commercial frameworks enable HUD to move more quickly as our volume and complexity of agreements grows. •This is not a traditional in-house counsel role. We’re looking for someone who combines strong legal and contracting judgment with an operator’s instinct for systems, tooling, and leverage. You should be comfortable handling a contract directly one day and redesigning the process so it barely needs manual intervention the next. •Own day-to-day legal operations - drafting and negotiating SOWs, chasing signatures, and monitoring timelines for invoicing will be 25-50% of your time •Build and continuously improve templates and negotiation playbooks so recurring issues such as data rights and usage restrictions can be handled quickly and consistently •Identify opportunities to automate or streamline high-volume legal workflows using software and AI, while preserving appropriate human review for judgment-heavy issues •Establish clear rules for what should be handled internally, what can be standardized or automated, and what should be escalated to founders or outside counsel •Manage outside counsel strategically, including scoping work, preparing issues efficiently, controlling legal spend, and ensuring external lawyers are used primarily for high-value or specialist questions Qualifications: •Draft, review, and negotiate routine commercial agreements across buyers, data vendors, and other partners, including MSAs, SOWs, data licenses, SLAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, and other bespoke arrangements Compensation: •$120,000 - $200,000 / year •100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!