Legal Operations, Billing & Spend Management
Verkada, a leader in cloud-based physical security solutions, is seeking a Legal Operations professional to join their expanding legal team in San Mateo, CA. This role focuses on managing the financial and operational aspects of Verkada's legal function, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor oversight, and financial operations. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, analytically strong, and comfortable managing complex, cross-functional workstreams.
Key responsibilities include overseeing the entire budget for Verkada's legal team, encompassing expenses such as outside counsel, software, professional services, headcount, travel, and other operational costs. The role also involves collaborating closely with the finance team on budgeting, accruals, variance analysis, and fiscal year planning. Additional duties include managing the legal billing platform, developing dashboards and reports for legal leadership, leading vendor and outside counsel management workflows, and driving operational initiatives to improve the Legal team's functions.
Candidates should have 3–8+ years of experience in legal operations, legal financial management, paralegal work, or a comparable in-house role with ownership of complex workflows. Deep experience with budgeting, forecasting, accruals, spend management, vendor oversight, and eBilling platforms is required. Strong experience with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and eDiscovery/legal hold tools and processes is also essential. The ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and move work forward without detailed instruction is crucial, along with clear, confident written and verbal communication skills. Familiarity with tools such as Google Workspace, SimpleLegal, MS 365, Pigment, Logikcull, Ironclad, DocuSign, Slack, and Monday is preferred.
Verkada offers a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare programs with premiums 100% covered for employees under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans. Additional benefits include nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage, Health Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions, Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax-saving options, expanded mental health support, paid parental leave policy, and fertility benefits. Employees also enjoy paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible paid time off (PTO), personal sick time, a professional development stipend, wellness/fitness benefits, healthy lunches provided daily, and commuter benefits.
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and well-being of its employees and their families. The company values a thriving in-office culture and is looking for individuals who enjoy building from the ground up. This role requires on-site presence at Verkada's headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and reports to the Legal Operations Senior Manager.