Legal Operations / Paralegal

The Role

As Legal Operations / Paralegal at Surge, you’ll keep our legal function running. You’ll handle the day-to-day work, from corporate filings to deadline tracking to vendor management, and you’ll build the processes and tools that help a growing legal team stay organized. You’ll work directly with our General Counsel and the rest of the legal team.

This role is ideal for a corporate paralegal or legal operations professional who is detail-oriented, likes fixing and creating processes, and is excited to build with AI tools.

What You’ll Do

• Manage corporate filings and records, and follow up with government agencies and other organizations to get documents and approvals.
• Track legal deadlines, renewals, and obligations across the company, so nothing is missed.
• Run how legal requests come in and get handled, so the team can see what’s open, who owns it, and what’s next.
• Improve legal processes and workflows, and document them.
• Forecast and oversee the legal budget, including review of outside counsel invoices.
• Manage legal vendors and billing.
• Evaluate, set up, and run legal technology, and build new workflows with AI tools where they help.
• Support the lawyers on matters as needed.

What We’re Looking for

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations or as a corporate paralegal, at a law firm, in-house, or both.
• Experience with corporate filings and governmental follow-up, and a reliable system for tracking deadlines.
• Strong organization. You can run many things at once and nothing slips.
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, or billing review.
• Familiarity with legal tech tools, and an interest in using AI to build better workflows. Experience building with AI tools is a plus.
• Clear written communication and good judgment with confidential information.
• Comfortable building process in a fast-moving environment, and willing to figure things out as you go.