Sr. Legal Ops Manager & Paralegal

Position Overview:

ContourGlobal Energy is recruiting a full-time Legal Operations Manager & Senior Paralegal Specialist to support ContourGlobal’s growth in the pursuit of advancing energy storage-focused solutions. The successful candidate will work closely with ContourGlobal’s legal team to support the design, creation and implementation of an efficient and effective legal function for our stand-alone storage, hybrid storage, and distributed generation solar business. The Senior Paralegal & Legal Operations Specialist will be responsible for designing, managing, and executing processes related to our legal function, and will also advise on general corporate matters including corporate entity structure and management, compliance, and corporate policies. The candidate will report to the General Counsel and will engage directly with the various internal business units, including the business development, investment, asset management, strategy, engineering, and operations teams in their day-to-day functions.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Design, create, implement, improve, and run processes and tools that support a growing legal department, overseeing a variety of operations — managing a legal control environment, contract approval and repository technology, managing legal e-billing, and budgeting
• Legal entity management of U.S. and international subsidiaries; liaise with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and other departments to provide documentations related to subsidiary management, and respond to audit requests;
• Negotiate draft and review NDAs based on company template and guidelines
• Due diligence for financing, M&A deals, and other corporate transactions, business activities, and special projects
• Develop and implement metrics and dashboards of outside counsel expenses, manage project budgets, and provide expense control, collaborating with Accounting team (and FP&A, if applicable) to analyze and conduct spending trends
• Facilitate contract lifecycle process and day-to-day management, collaborate with IT to simplify tracking, retention, and coordination of execution
• Manage and coordinate Board of Directors, Shareholders, and other Committee meeting preparation, retention of secure records and distribution of materials, if required
• Create templates or standard forms for recurring agreements
• Draft and review vendor agreements, amendments, and other legal documents
• Supported internal lawyers with legal research, project management, filing, and other ad-hoc assignments as instructed
• Support, as needed on litigation, employment/immigration, compliance/regulatory support and legal research needs
• Collaborate with and support HR and employment counsel on investigations, coordinating company-wide employee trainings
• Draft and maintain sensitive documents and records with discretion 
• Support the internal legal team, as required.

Behavioral Skills:

• Self-starter who is passionate about the Energy Transition and mitigating legal risk
• A practical thinker known for choosing the simple, robust solutions where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results
• A curious professional who wants to use their solid skills to advance exciting business opportunities
• A patient puzzle-solver; you have the composure and skill to approach a problem from many angles over time until you can unlock a solution
• Ethical and highly-principled; knowledgeable about the most rigorous standards for ethical relations with government and counterparties, which you exemplify in all situations
• Adept at identifying and mitigating risks in management of a legal department
• A systematic and highly-organized professional who takes personal accountability for tracking numerous activities across workstreams and driving them all to successful conclusion
• Keen understanding of what drives key stakeholder decisions
• Effective in a fast-moving and complex environment
• Superb writer with exceptional understanding of contracts and corporate legal issues, as well as effective persuasive techniques with internal and external business clients
• Well organized, systematic, detail oriented and calm under pressure
• Highly-skilled communicator who has proven success in translating complex concepts into persuasive advocacy to non-legal audiences
• Adaptable/Flexible - You can easily adjust to new routines, systems, situations, procedures and people

• Team player - You are willing to and capable of group work to reach a common goal
• You are able to give and receive guidance and feedback that’s both kind and clear, regular, specific and sincere. The legal team at ContourGlobal practices the theory of Radical Candor.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in paralegal and/or legal operations roles, with increasing responsibility
• Experience in designing and managing implementation of legal processes for a new legal department
• Experience with power, energy, and/or infrastructure companies and projects
• Demonstrated exceptional ability to use industry standard technical programs, including but not limited to excellent Microsoft Office skills, Westlaw and Lexis Nexus legal research programs and contract management software
• Strong command of the nexus of accounting and legal compliance
• Fluency and exceptional writing skills in the English language, Spanish skills a plus
• Public company reporting and controls experience preferred

Education:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university required. Advanced degree(s) preferred.