Manager Legal Design Jobs (NOW HIRING)

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000 plus bonus

Reports to: General Counsel

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

About The Company:

NineDot's name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. As a leading community-scale, clean energy developer with a growing portfolio of projects across a range of technologies, NineDot Energy is creating innovative energy solutions that support a more resilient electric grid, deliver economic savings, address environmental justice and reduce carbon emissions. We plan to develop, build and operate more than 400 MW of clean energy systems by 2026 that will strengthen the local power grid infrastructure and provide clean, reliable and resilient power to tens of thousands of New York households and businesses. This is all in support of New York State's mission to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040.

With the backing of Manulife Investment Management and The Carlyle Group - two of the world's leading infrastructure investors - NineDot is continuing to expand its core battery energy storage pipeline, deliver enhanced products and services, explore new regions and consider potential acquisitions all to advance the decarbonization of New York's grid. This is an exciting opportunity to build a platform from the ground-up with a world-class team of developers and innovators.

Job Summary

Reporting to the General Counsel, the Manager, Legal Operations will support and improve the legal team's operational processes, systems, and workflows to help the department operate efficiently and scale with the business.. This role will oversee legal processes, technology platforms, workflows, reporting, contract lifecycle management, outside counsel operations, and knowledge management to improve consistency, visibility, and execution across the function.

The ideal candidate brings strong legal operations and project management experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with the ability to implement practical systems, streamline cross-functional workflows, and support complex business operations. This role partners closely with Legal and teams across development, finance, construction, procurement, compliance, and asset management to drive efficient, business-focused legal support.

Responsibilities:

• Own the legal team's operations, including intake, matter management, prioritization, workflow design, reporting, templates, playbooks, approvals, and recordkeeping.
• Serve as the administrator and business owner for the Company's contract lifecycle management ("CLM") platform, including legacy archives, templates, clause libraries, approval workflows, signature processes, dashboards, user training, and continuous improvement.
• Improve and maintain legal intake processes that help business teams route requests efficiently, provide complete information, and understand expected turnaround times.
• Assist with reporting and KPI tracking for the General Counsel and the legal team, including matter volume, cycle times, contract status, outside counsel spend, workload distribution, and business team service levels.
• Partner with the legal team, project finance, development, construction, procurement, finance, asset management, and other teams to improve legal support for project development, financing, construction, procurement, corporate governance, litigation, and operational matters.
• Coordinate outside counsel operations, including engagement letters, billing guidelines, budgets, accruals, invoice review, spend tracking, and matter setup.
• Provide legal operations support for corporate governance and entity management processes, including workflow coordination, records organization, filing calendars, board and committee materials, signature authority, and related process tracking.
• Create and maintain legal team playbooks, standard operating procedures, contract templates, fallback positions, checklists, and self-service resources for business teams.
• Support implementation, administration, and optimization of legal technology platforms, including requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, pilot management, rollout planning, adoption, and ongoing administration.
• Support process improvement initiatives, including workflow automation and efficiency tools where appropriate to reduce manual work, improve consistency, and increase legal team capacity.
• Manage legal team knowledge management, including document storage, naming conventions, precedent organization, legal research repositories, contract metadata, and institutional knowledge capture.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support efficient legal workflows and information sharing.
• Support budget planning, legal department planning, quarterly priorities, team meetings, and other operational rhythms for the legal function.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the General Counsel or the Company.

Core Competencies:

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Drives Results - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
• Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Tech Savvy - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

Required education and experience:

• 6+ years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, legal technology, paralegal management, contract operations, business operations, or a related function.
• Experience building or materially improving legal operations in an in-house legal department.
• Experience administering or implementing one or more of the following legal technology platforms: contract lifecycle management (CLM), matter management, e-billing, document management, e-signature, or workflow management systems.
• Strong understanding of contract workflows, approval processes, template management, contract repositories, and legal intake.
• Experience developing KPIs, dashboards, reporting processes, and executive-ready operational updates.
• Experience managing outside counsel operations, including budgets, billing guidelines, invoice review, matter tracking, and spend reporting.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to define scope, manage timelines, coordinate stakeholders, and drive work to completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced, and growing company.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in renewable energy, battery energy storage, infrastructure, project finance, construction, real estate development, utilities, climate tech, or another capital-intensive industry.
• Experience providing operations support for corporate governance, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, construction, procurement, litigation, insurance, or other legal workflows within an in-house legal department or law firm.
• Experience with AI-enabled legal tools, workflow automation platforms, data room platforms, e-billing systems, and legal analytics solutions.
• Professional credentials such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) certification, paralegal certification, or a similar process, change management, legal operations, or project management credential.
• Demonstrated comfort working with both attorneys and non-attorneys to translate legal requirements into practical, repeatable business processes that can be adopted across multiple functional teams.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

At NineDot Energy, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and are the foundation of our success. As such, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, age, or any other status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

If you're passionate about this role but don't meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other opportunities with us. We're committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and skills.

NineDot Employee benefits include but are not limited to:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 5% employer match on your 401k retirement account
• 20 paid vacation days off, plus 7 sick days, 9 federal holidays and 3 personal floating holidays
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for both the primary and secondary caregiver within the first year of birth or adoption
• Wellness initiatives including a $1,000 stipend
• 16 volunteer hours plus two planned company-wide volunteer outings per year