Director of Legal Operations

Scopely is seeking a Director, Legal Operations to join our Legal team. This role will lead the Legal Operations function and establish the strategy, operating model, technology roadmap, governance framework, and performance infrastructure for a global, high-growth Legal department. This role will be a hybrid position in our Culver City, CA hub.

• Partner directly with Legal leadership to define and execute a multi-year Legal Operations strategy aligned with Scopely’s business priorities and growth.
• Translate Legal department priorities into an integrated roadmap covering technology, process improvement, data, knowledge management, automation, training, and organizational capability.
• Establish annual and quarterly priorities, success metrics, resource plans, and sequencing recommendations for the Legal Operations team.
• Advise Legal leadership on tradeoffs among business impact, risk, cost, speed, and available team capacity.
• Develop the Legal Operations budget, oversee spend, build business cases for new investments, and manage vendor and renewal strategy.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and simplify Legal processes across Commercial, Corporate, Employment, Product Compliance, and other Legal functions.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop the Sr. Manager, Legal Operations, who owns Ironclad CLM operations, knowledge management infrastructure, and AI implementation.
• Serve as the executive owner of Scopely’s Legal technology portfolio and establish a coherent architecture and investment strategy across CLM, knowledge management, matter management, e-billing, contract analytics, automation, and related tools.
• Own the Legal technology roadmap, including technology selection, implementation sequencing, integration priorities, system rationalization, and long-term scalability.
• Oversee Ironclad CLM as a critical Legal and business system, ensuring that the Sr. Manager has the direction, resources, governance framework, and stakeholder alignment necessary to operate the platform effectively.
• Establish governance standards for workflow design, metadata, templates, permissions, approval logic, integrations, repository integrity, data retention, change management, and system access.
• Review and approve significant platform changes, balancing user experience, business needs, control requirements, data integrity, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with IT, Information Security, Privacy, Procurement, Finance, and external vendors on architecture, security, integrations, implementation, support, and risk management.
• Lead or oversee system migrations, data consolidation efforts, post-acquisition integrations, and other technology transformation initiatives.
• Establish the strategic vision and operating model for Legal knowledge management, including content architecture, taxonomy, ownership, curation, searchability, version control, and access governance.
• Ensure that Legal’s institutional knowledge is captured, structured, maintained, and made accessible in ways that support self-service, consistency, and future AI applications.
• Develop a portfolio of practical AI and automation use cases for Legal in partnership with Legal leadership, IT, and relevant business stakeholders.
• Oversee the implementation and responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools, including chatbots, knowledge-based assistants, workflow automation, contract analytics, and other emerging technologies.
• Direct the Sr. Manager’s hands-on execution of knowledge management and AI initiatives, including platform configuration, testing, content population, user feedback, optimization, and rollout.
• Define success metrics for AI and automation initiatives, including adoption, response quality, time saved, reduction in repetitive inquiries, and measurable improvements to the Legal user experience.
• Stay current on legal technology and AI developments and make informed recommendations regarding opportunities, risks, and investment priorities.
• Serve as a strategic partner to Legal leadership, Procurement, Finance, Information Security, IT, People, Product, and other stakeholders to improve the end-to-end process of contracting and Legal support experience.
• Establish scalable intake, triage, and routing models that direct work to the appropriate Legal or business resource and minimize unnecessary attorney involvement.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to identify recurring friction, diagnose root causes, and implement structural solutions rather than one-off fixes.
• Support Legal leadership to define and adopt practical playbooks, self-service resources, approval frameworks, and standardized processes.

• Proven experience in legal operations leadership, with a track record of building and scaling legal operations functions.
• Deep understanding of legal technology, including CLM systems (e.g., Ironclad), knowledge management, e-billing, and AI-enabled tools.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate business priorities into operational plans.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills, with experience managing senior team members.
• Strong financial acumen, including budget management and business case development.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, ideally in technology or gaming.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and create structure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Hybrid position based in Culver City, CA.
• Opportunity to work in a global, high-growth gaming company.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Collaborative and innovative culture.