Legal Operations Advisor USA

at  Equinix

LEGAL OPERATIONS ADVISOR

Equinix is one of the fastest-growing data center companies, growing connectivity between clients worldwide. That’s why we’re always looking for creative and forward-thinking people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200+ data centers in over 24 countries spanning across five continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development.
We are passionate about further evolving the specific areas of software development, software and network architecture, network operations, and complex Cloud and application solutions. At Equinix, we make the internet work faster, better, and more reliably. We hire talented people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, and grow in new directions. Our culture is at the heart of our success, and it’s our authentic, humble, gritty people who create The Magic of Equinix. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do.

JOB SUMMARY

As a part of the Global Legal Operations team, the Legal Operations Advisor will be responsible for working with various stakeholders across the Legal department on projects, from opportunity alignment and requirements gathering through design and delivery. The focus for this role will be on technology projects that drive digital transformation across the Legal practice areas, from enhancing current systems, supporting system integrations to developing business requirements and common processes for new system deployments. The Legal Operations Advisor will need to juggle responsibilities across various projects with a wide range of complexities and assist with the development, maintenance and improvement of Legal Operations processes and systems.
We are seeking a bright, enthusiastic, and results-oriented professional with solid technology experience and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams. To excel in this role, you will have a background in business analysis and project management with the ability to foster relationships with staff across the Legal department globally to achieve a positive result. Successful candidates will have experiencing deploying digital technology to a legal practice area or a complimentary function with transferable skills.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years completing similar tasks to those above, and within a Legal or IT environment, preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience with Legal technology and processes required
• Project Management qualifications preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills preferred
• Ability to make decisions independently, knowing how and when to escalate issues
• Experience working with business teams and stakeholders
• Knowledge of Project Management Technology, such as SharePoint, Smartsheet, Tableau, Box.
• Experience in Legal domain preferred, including but not limited to Contracts Management, Compliance, Privacy and Entity Management
• Intermediate Microsoft Office knowledge

• Assists with development of training materials
• Delivers process and systems training
• Identifies existing process and systems gaps
• Enforces and disseminates processes in coordination with process and content leads
• Identifies and analyzes content and template inefficiencies and proposes recommendations for improvement
• Diagnoses and resolves system failures and malfunctions using standard practices and procedures
• Liaises with IT for resolution of standard systems failures and user setting issues
• Maintains, reviews, audits, and modifies data, records and templates
• Proposes improvements, policies, procedures and processes with respect to data and records
• Ensures compliance with data and records policies, procedures and processes
• Sets up appropriate user roles and security settings within existing and future systems
• Maintains, prepares and configures contracts related content to be used within the contracts systems
• Responds to requests for support or info related to content or templates