Legal Operations Manager

Description

Aryaka is looking for a “can-do” professional to join its legal team. This position will have a hands-on role in all aspects of the legal team, with a primary focus on contracts management and legal operations. This position reports to directly to our General Counsel and will have visibility into other functions, including our HR team. This is a critical role that requires strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.

Job Duties:

• Ability to dynamically draft and review key terms in NDAs, SOWs and Order Forms based on customer requirements and in line with business risk.
• Cooperate with Sales Operations to maintain and improve Sales Operations and Deal Desk processes.
• Maintain legal technology to streamline new or existing processes, including maintenance of legal intake system.
• Aggregate metrics from various systems and accurately summarize legal team efforts in executive-level decks as needed.
• Proactively address inefficiencies, eliminating processes or driving improvements in existing processes for the legal team.
• Manage the legal team budget, including opening and closing POs with Finance, working with legal professionals to obtain data necessary for forecasting and accruals, and accurately processing invoices.
• Primary administrator of the Company’s equity management system, with primary responsibility for running reports, uploading data, accurate recordkeeping and maintaining the Company’s capitalization table.
• Single point of contact for all equity questions from employees worldwide.
• Maintain compliance with worldwide equity laws and making equity-related compliance filings around the world.

Requirements:

• Attention to detail is an absolute must for this position.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Strong sense of accountability, integrity and taking ownership over projects and responsibilities and resolving issues proactively.
• “Learner’s mindset” – it is critical that this person is comfortable operating in the grey, using resources to find solutions to issues not yet encountered, or testing technology not yet used before (such as AI-based systems).
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Has at least 2 years of experience with exposure to commercial sales processes and, ideally with equity management.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in contract management as a member of an in-house legal team, preferably supporting a scaling sales organization at a fast-growing tech company.
• Experience with stock administration and cap table management, including familiarity with equity compensation concepts such as options, RSUs, and other equity awards.

Who we are: Aryaka is the leader in delivering Unified SASE as a Service, a fully integrated solution combining networking, security, and observability. Built for the demands of Generative AI as well as today’s multi-cloud hybrid world, Aryaka enables enterprises to transform their secure networking to deliver uncompromised performance, agility, simplicity, and security. Aryaka’s flexible delivery options empower businesses to choose their preferred approach for implementation and management. Hundreds of global enterprises, including several in the Fortune 100, depend on Aryaka for their secure networking solutions. For more on Aryaka, please visit www.aryaka.com

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Why Aryaka: We have won “Great Places to Work” World-Wide because we have an amazing company culture that is inviting, collaborative, supportive, and inclusive to our employees.  We encourage our employees to expand their knowledge base and provide the tools to help them get there.  We are always innovating and looking at ways to improve and expand, and we listen to our employees and their ideas.  We have an amazing group of very respected “Thought Leaders” who are always open to mentoring.  Our Benefits are World-Class, and we have a flexible work structure to allow you to maximize your work/life balance.

Compensation: Base salary up to $125,000 + Performance Based Bonus + Equity + Benefits

Aryaka Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and supporter of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. All candidates from all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, and gender identities are strongly encouraged to apply. Aryaka considers the "whole person" without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or veteran status.

Third-Party Agency Notice: Aryaka does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party agencies. Should any agency send a resume to any employee within Aryaka without an explicit invitation, the resume will be considered a gift, and no fee will be paid. All agencies must have a signed contract with Talent Acquisition management prior to any engagement.