Strategy Associate – Legal

Role Overview

• Lead high-impact strategic initiatives that improve how the Legal team delivers value, from problem definition through experimentation and iteration.
• Support strategic planning, goal setting, and performance management across the Legal organization, including defining operating rhythms and priorities.
• Help translate company-level objectives into clear Legal team goals and execution plans.
• Track progress against strategic initiatives and surface risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities for leadership.
• Diagnose friction points in Legal workflows and design streamlined, scalable processes that improve speed, clarity, and quality.
• Develop and maintain clear standard work, playbooks, and SOPs that support consistency and scalability.
• Apply continuous improvement principles to test new approaches, gather feedback, and refine processes over time.
• Ensure new workflows are practical, adopted, and aligned with how the business actually operates.
• Define the operational and strategic data that matters most for the Legal team and how it should be measured.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools that provide visibility into workload, throughput, and impact.
• Evaluate, test, and implement technology and AI tools that improve productivity, insight, and knowledge management.
• Partner with attorneys to develop AI-ready playbooks and guardrails that enable safe, effective use of new tools.
• Create clear, compelling executive-level presentations that synthesize complex information into persuasive narratives.
• Support the General Counsel in framing strategic issues and preparing materials for senior leadership discussions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure Legal initiatives align with broader company goals and expectations.
• Act as a connective tissue across teams, helping translate needs, constraints, and priorities into actionable plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree a plus.
• 3+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, operations, legal operations, or a similar analytical role.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and solve novel problems with minimal guidance.
• Strong analytical and research skills, including the ability to synthesize best practices, build methodologies based on empirical evidence, and apply external frameworks to internal needs.
• Advanced presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to build clear, compelling executive-level decks.
• Strong data skills, including comfort working with messy data, building models, and creating dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to design structured, data-driven solutions.
• High level of autonomy, curiosity, and bias toward action in fast-moving environments.
• Excellent judgment, professionalism, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
• Practical experience with generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) and advanced prompt engineering.
• Experience in a high-growth startup or rapidly scaling organization is preferred.
• Prior experience in management consulting or internal strategy/operations roles is preferred.

Benefits

• WFH Flexible