Chief of Staff, Legal

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Chief of Staff partnering with OpenLoop’s General Counsel to guide legal strategy, transactions, budgets and operations. Supporting a telehealth platform serving patients across all 50 states.

Responsibilities:

  • Shape the Legal department's strategy and annual priorities with the General Counsel
  • Translate business objectives into actionable plans and make trade-offs across priorities, resources and investments
  • Drive the General Counsel's strategic initiatives across Legal, Compliance and business leadership
  • Partner with VP and SVP leaders to influence decisions and drive alignment
  • Lead Legal's involvement in acquisitions, fundraising and strategic partnerships
  • Coordinate diligence, data rooms and cross-functional transaction execution
  • Act as a strategic advisor and representative of the General Counsel in leadership discussions
  • Own leadership meetings, offsites and planning cycles
  • Establish an operating rhythm and hold leaders accountable for commitments and results
  • Own leadership communications, executive updates and Board discussion materials
  • Lead strategic transformation across Legal
  • Improve organizational effectiveness and cross-functional collaboration
  • Own the legal budget, outside counsel spend and departmental performance reporting
  • Set direction for Legal's use of AI, automation, contract management and intake tools
  • Partner with IT and build the legal operations capability and team as the department scales

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience, including several years as a Chief of Staff, strategy lead or senior operator working directly with senior executives
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex strategic initiatives and their execution
  • Experience leading or significantly contributing to major corporate transactions, including fundraising, acquisitions or other complex strategic processes
  • Exposure to due diligence, data rooms and stakeholder coordination
  • Record of leading cross-functional transformation, including AI and automation adoption delivering measurable operational improvements
  • Experience in large-scale or rapidly scaling organizations
  • Strong working knowledge of legal operations, including CLM, intake and legal technology
  • Experience owning departmental budgets, resource planning or outside counsel spend
  • Experience leading teams and developing people
  • Executive judgment, credibility and presence to influence VP and SVP leaders without direct authority
  • Strong strategic and commercial judgment
  • Healthcare or regulated industry experience preferred
  • Experience with Ironclad preferred
  • Background spanning consulting, strategy or operations as well as legal preferred
  • Experience working directly with a General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer or executive leadership team preferred

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) + Company Match
  • Life Insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Autonomy, Competence and Belonging company values
  • Flat organizational structure with encouragement to bring ideas forward and make things happen