Legal Operations and Innovation Manager

A Career with Point72's Legal Team

Our Legal team’s mission is to deliver exceptional legal services in a manner that promotes the firm’s performance with the utmost integrity. Our Legal department supports all Point72 groups globally with practical advice on a variety of complex legal and regulatory matters in an ever-changing, dynamic environment.

What you'll do

Build and own the operational backbone for the Legal department, partnering with the General Counsel and department leadership to execute long-term strategy, set priorities, and align resources with firm goals

Develop and manage the annual legal department budget, track legal spend, identify cost-saving opportunities, and streamline invoice processing

Improve core legal processes, including matter intake, triage, workflow routing, document management, knowledge management, and operational onboarding

Design data infrastructure, reporting, and dashboards that show matter volumes, assignments, capacity, cycle times, throughput, and spend trends

Lead the legal technology roadmap, including the evaluation, implementation, integration, administration, and adoption of systems and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled workflows

Govern automation and AI use to preserve privilege, respect information barriers, and meet regulatory defensibility expectations

Manage operational relationships with legal technology vendors and outside counsel, including onboarding, billing guidelines, invoice review, and performance tracking

Oversee entity management, corporate housekeeping, regulatory calendars, filings tracking, renewals, and operational support for fund-regulation workstreams

Maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, precedents, data taxonomies, and capture standards that enable consistent reporting and downstream automation

What's required

At least eight years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, or a comparable operational role

Experience working in a law firm, asset manager, bank, or other regulated financial institution

Hands-on experience implementing, administering, or operating a document management system

Demonstrated ownership of legal processes, vendor and outside counsel management, metrics, and reporting

Strong project management skills with the ability to run multiple workstreams to completion with minimal oversight

Excellent judgment when handling confidentiality, privilege, and sensitive information in a high-trust environment

Strong data orientation, including designing taxonomies, defining data capture requirements, and translating operational data into actionable reporting

Comfort with legal technology, automation, and AI-enabled workflows, with a practical understanding of how they can improve legal work

Proven ability to drive process and technology adoption across teams through training, measurement, and stakeholder engagement

Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

Fully-paid health care benefits

Generous parental and family leave policies

Volunteer opportunities

Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community

Mental and physical wellness programs

Tuition assistance

A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.