Paralegal

Job Description

Paralegal | Giga Energy

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Giga Energy, located remotely. Giga Energy is dedicated to building the foundational power infrastructure for the AI revolution, operating at a rapid pace to define the future of AI. This Paralegal role is crucial for enabling the company’s speed and impact by independently managing critical legal processes, ensuring legal operations are organized, responsive, and efficient as Giga scales.

The TL;DR
• Role: Senior
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote

• Team: Individual Contributor within the Legal team
• Mission: This person owns the end-to-end NDA and legal intake processes to ensure efficient and organized legal operations across the company.
• Tech Stack: e-signature tools, contract repositories, contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• NDA Ownership: Own the end-to-end NDA process, including drafting, negotiating, and driving NDAs to execution independently, escalating only true edge cases to attorneys.
• Legal Intake System: Design and own a centralized legal intake process, replacing informal communication channels with a single, clear front door for all legal requests.
• Intake Enforcement: Consistently enforce the company-wide legal intake process, redirecting requesters who bypass the established workflow to ensure adherence.
• Signature Management: Manage the full signature pipeline from end-to-end, including queuing documents, sending them for e-signature, and tracking their completion.
• Contract Repository: Maintain and organize the contract repository to ensure all agreements are easily findable, trackable, and reportable for the legal function and business teams.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Paralegal or legal operations professional with a focus on process ownership and independent legal support.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience as a paralegal or in a similar legal operations role, with proven ability to independently manage NDAs from drafting through execution and to build, run, or significantly improve legal intake or triage processes.
• Skills: Working knowledge of e-signature tools, contract repositories, and contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools; ability to work autonomously with minimal oversight while exercising sound judgment on when to escalate; comfort enforcing processes consistently while adapting to shifting priorities.
• Bonus: Paralegal certificate; 10+ years of experience in legal operations or a paralegal role; experience standing up legal intake or operations processes from scratch; experience supporting legal teams at a high-growth or fast-paced company; experience preparing legal notes or executive briefs.