[Remote] Director of Legal Operations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aprio Talent Solutions is seeking a Director to lead legal operations, contractor lifecycle management, privacy and security governance, and enterprise risk and compliance. The role establishes accountable, repeatable cross-functional processes and coordinates internal teams and external experts; it is not a General Counsel or technical security role.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial contract intake, triage, review coordination, redlines, and negotiation support
• Manage templates and workflows for MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, signatures, renewals, expirations, and contractual obligations
• Oversee the contract repository, clause library, and related document-governance standards
• Coordinate outside counsel engagements, legal matters, spend, disputes, employment matters, intellectual property filings, corporate governance, and M&A support
• Lead the end-to-end contractor process, from request intake and classification through contracting, activation, engagement management, offboarding, and final payment
• Administer contractor agreements, SOWs, NDAs, insurance documentation, background-check requirements, and approval workflows
• Maintain contractor rosters, renewal tracking, scope-change governance, records retention, and compliance with contract and insurance requirements
• Partner with Talent Success, Finance, Accounts Payable, IT, and business owners to enable efficient, well-controlled contractor engagements
• Own governance for data protection, privacy policies, information classification, retention, DLP, BAAs, and HIPAA security coordination
• Lead client security questionnaires, maintain a security-response library, and manage supporting evidence for client due diligence
• Coordinate SOC 2 compliance, annual security risk assessments, policy reviews, awareness training, remediation tracking, and executive reporting
• Oversee third-party security partners while collaborating with IT on technical implementation
• Manage broker relationships, insurance renewals, coverage documentation, claims administration, and COI or EOI requests
• Own the enterprise risk register and coordinate vendor risk, contractual risk, business continuity, and executive risk reporting
• Maintain compliance policies, training, attestations, audit coordination, corrective-action tracking, regulatory monitoring, and acquisition diligence support

Skills

• Significant experience in legal operations, contract lifecycle management, or enterprise governance
• Demonstrated success building repeatable, cross-functional processes across legal, HR, finance, IT, and business teams
• Experience coordinating outside counsel and managing legal matters, vendors, budgets, or related workflows
• Working knowledge of contractor classification, onboarding, contracting, insurance, and payment processes
• Exposure to privacy and security governance, SOC 2, HIPAA, client security reviews, and audit evidence management
• Familiarity with insurance, broker management, enterprise risk, or vendor risk programs
• Strong communication, organization, judgment, and stakeholder-management skills
• A hands-on, practical approach suited to a growing, technology-enabled, professional-services, healthcare, or private equity-backed environment
• A law degree is not required

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