Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blaize is building a hybrid AI platform engineered to support edge-to-cloud intelligence at scale. They are seeking an experienced Manager – Paralegal & Legal Operations to support the Legal team across corporate, commercial, compliance, and operational matters, managing legal processes and operations including contracts administration and compliance coordination.
Responsibilities
- Conduct intake, review, negotiate, organize, and administer all NDAs and potentially other template-based agreements, with assistance from attorneys where needed
- Maintain contract lifecycle management (CLM) database and ensure proper documentation, tracking, and compliance processes
- Create and manage contract execution workflows and manage legal intake requests
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, Procurement, Sales, and Operations to support legal processes and business initiatives
- Leverage AI tools and technology to streamline contract review, improve document processing, and enhance legal operations efficiency and reporting
- Assist with corporate governance activities, including Board of Directors and Committee materials and legal entity management activities
- Support compliance initiatives, policy tracking, and audit-related requests
- Help maintain organized, scalable, and audit-ready legal processes and records
- Track legal obligations, renewals, and critical deadlines
- Support dispute management, litigation coordination, legal holds, and document collection as needed
- Assist with legal research and preparation of summaries, reports, and presentations
- Maintain confidentiality and ensure proper handling of sensitive information
- Identify opportunities to improve legal workflows, document management, and operational efficiency
- Help implement scalable legal operations processes and best practices
- Support reporting, metrics, and KPI tracking for legal operations activities
Skills
- 5–8 years of legal operations, paralegal, or corporate legal support experience
- Experience supporting in-house legal teams in a start-up or similar fast-paced business environment (i.e., outside of a traditional law firm environment)
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with business and operational teams
- Strong knowledge of contract management and legal documentation processes
- Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills
- Experience working collaboratively and cross-functionally with business and operational teams
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining strong attention to detail
- Proficiency with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and Microsoft Office Suite required
- Bachelor's degree and/or Paralegal Certification
Company Overview
Blaize is an AI computing platforms company that develops products for the automotive, smart vision, and enterprise computing markets. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.blaize.com.