Legal Operations Manager

Datadog

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
—
Salary
$96,000–$128,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $164k
This role $112k
$84k most similar roles pay here $206k

This role pays less than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $134,887–$193,587 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $112k versus about $164k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 255 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $171,500–$235,000 across 130 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Datadog

At a glance

TL;DR · Legal Operations Manager

Legal Operations Manager The Legal Operations Manager joins the Legal Operations subgroup to scale, modernize, and automate global legal team operations while driving the adoption of AI-powered tools and workflows. This individual will own end-to-end legal processes, create standard operating procedures, and manage technology used by the legal team, including Brightflag, Salesforce, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate systems, troubleshoot issues, analyze data for forecasting, and support outside counsel operations. To succeed, the candidate must possess experience in contract or program management within a SaaS or technology environment. They will act as a change agent by championing new systems and translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. The role addresses the challenge of providing legal services across a dynamic technology company involving contracts, compliance efforts, and intellectual property protection.

What you'll do

  • Own and improve end-to-end legal processes through optimization and automation.
  • Liaise with technical teams to implement systems and troubleshoot issues for the legal department.
  • Create and manage standard operating procedures (SOPs) for cross-functional projects.
  • Analyze data and AI-generated insights to drive forecasting, planning, and reporting.
  • Manage and serve as a superuser for legal technology tools like Salesforce and AI platforms.
  • Champion new systems and emerging AI capabilities within the legal organization.
  • Manage outside counsel operations and support shared services models.

What we're looking for

  • Experience as a legal operations or program manager with at least 6 years of contract, program, or project management experience.
  • Experience working within a SaaS or technology company is preferred.
  • Familiarity with program management tools and techniques including roadmapping, task breakdown, and reporting.
  • Hands-on experience evaluating or deploying AI and automation tools in a legal or business operations context.
  • Ability to translate technical or AI-related concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple projects and deadlines.
  • High integrity and sound judgment regarding the responsible use of AI with sensitive data.

More like this

Similar roles

Legal Operations Analyst

Datadog

2 days ago $70,000–$93,000
Google Workspace Brightflag Docusign Salesforce Coupa Confluence Jira Office365 Contract Management Project Management
2+ yrs exp Hybrid

Legal Operations Analyst II

Affirm

Remote 35 days ago $100,000–$150,000
Ironclad CLM Zip Salesforce Jira Notion Contentful Google API Data Analysis Reporting Process Automation Project Management Knowledge Management
3+ yrs exp Remote

Senior Data Architect, Legal Operations

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA 174 days ago $184,700–$277,600
Data Architecture Data Modeling Dimensional Modeling Snowflake SQL Python dbt Fivetran ETL ELT Master Data Management Knowledge Graphs Neo4j Vector Databases RAG Data Governance Data Quality Data Observability
10+ yrs exp

Lifecycle Marketing Operations Manager

Hippo

Austin, TX 56 days ago $150,000–$180,000
ESP Braze Customer.io Iterable Salesforce Marketing Cloud CRM CDP SQL Data Governance Reporting Dashboards Data Literacy Marketing Operations Compliance TCPA CAN-SPAM CCPA
3+ yrs exp