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Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.
Our Culture
Who we are:
Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.
How we work:
- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Legal Operations & Contracts Manager to build and run the systems, processes, and tools that let a small Legal team keep pace with a fast-growing AI company. Reporting into our General Counsel you will own Legal’s technology stack, with Ironclad as our system of record for contracts, and you will identify and deploy AI-driven tools that make Legal faster without introducing new risk.
This is a builder role. You will design the workflows, templates, playbooks, and integrations that move deals through Legal quickly and consistently, and you will serve as the operational backbone for Commercial and Enterprise Counsel. You will also run day-to-day contract operations, including intake, standard paper, and management of our enterprise contract review vendor, using good judgment about what to handle, what to hold, and when to escalate.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own Legal’s technology stack. Set the roadmap and standards, and own tool selection, implementation, renewal, and return on investment.
- Evaluate, pilot, and deploy AI-driven legal tools (contract review and redlining support, clause extraction, knowledge retrieval, and self-service intake), making sound build-versus-buy decisions.
- Define guardrails for AI use in Legal in partnership with Counsel, covering confidentiality, accuracy, privilege, and data handling, and document where AI helps versus where human review is required.
- Manage legal technology vendors, including coordinating security review, contracting, budgets, and performance.
- Administer Ironclad end to end: workflow and launch-form design, template management, approvals, user access, reporting, and its AI and obligation-tracking features, keeping workflows optimized as deal volume and the product grow.
- Integrate Ironclad with HubSpot for sales handoff and deal tracking, and with e-signature and other business systems as needs arise, using native connectors, APIs, or automation tools.
- Optimize workflows continuously as the business, deal volume, and product offering grow.
- Run a single front door for legal requests: triage inbound deals, NDAs, security questionnaires, and business requirements documents, set the track by customer type, and route work to the right person or tool.
- Maintain playbooks, templates, clause libraries, and approved fallback positions across customer and vendor deal tracks in partnership with internal Counsel.
- Create SOPs, a knowledge base, and self-service resources, and train Sales, Finance, and other stakeholders so routine contracting tasks get done without a lawyer.
- Handle commercial-track subscription agreements on standard paper using the approved playbook, prepare and process Order Forms with Sales and Finance, and escalate negotiated or non-standard terms to Commercial Counsel.
- Manage enterprise-track review and the contract review vendor relationship: send out counterparty paper, assess output against Blitzy’s playbook, and recommend what to redline, hold, or escalate to Enterprise Counsel - maintaining continuity across all redline rounds on every track, including vendor arrangements and other contracting processes.
- Report on contract cycle time, request volume and turnaround, playbook deviations, vendor performance, and legal tool spend, and build dashboards that surface bottlenecks, justify investments, and prioritize the next improvement.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or contract management, in-house at a SaaS or technology company (fast-growing strongly preferred). A J.D. is welcome but not required.
- Hands-on Ironclad CLM experience. You have administered Ironclad day to day and ideally led or been closely involved in an implementation, including workflow design, templates, permissions, reporting, and integrations.
- Experience connecting legal systems to CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce), e-signature, and automation tools.
- Direct Experience with AI-driven tools for legal work, with a working sense of where they save time and where they quietly introduce risk.
- Experience connecting legal systems to other business systems (for example, a CRM such as HubSpot or Salesforce, e-signature, or workflow automation tools).
- Strong understanding of SaaS agreements, NDAs, and Order Forms - enough to build playbooks and know what to escalate.
- Project management skills and comfort with data: you can scope a project, drive it across teams, and show measurable results.
- Familiarity with US and EU privacy law (GDPR, HIPAA, CPRA) and the contracts behind it — BAAs and DPAs is a plus.
- Familiarity with AI-specific contract issues: IP ownership of generated output, model usage rights, and liability among multiple vendors in a platform-based offering.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation: $90,000-$135,000 + Bonus + Equity
Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe different perspectives make us stronger. Base salary ranges are determined by country, role, level, experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects Blitzy’s good faith determination of the minimum and maximum targets for new hire salaries across all locations. Individual pay is determined by related factors, including job skills, experience, and relevant education or training, which may impact a final offer. Your Talent Partner can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
INTRODUCTION
Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.
Our Culture
Who we are:
Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.
How we work:
- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Legal Operations & Contracts Manager to build and run the systems, processes, and tools that let a small Legal team keep pace with a fast-growing AI company. Reporting into our General Counsel you will own Legal’s technology stack, with Ironclad as our system of record for contracts, and you will identify and deploy AI-driven tools that make Legal faster without introducing new risk.
This is a builder role. You will design the workflows, templates, playbooks, and integrations that move deals through Legal quickly and consistently, and you will serve as the operational backbone for Commercial and Enterprise Counsel. You will also run day-to-day contract operations, including intake, standard paper, and management of our enterprise contract review vendor, using good judgment about what to handle, what to hold, and when to escalate.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own Legal’s technology stack. Set the roadmap and standards, and own tool selection, implementation, renewal, and return on investment.
- Evaluate, pilot, and deploy AI-driven legal tools (contract review and redlining support, clause extraction, knowledge retrieval, and self-service intake), making sound build-versus-buy decisions.
- Define guardrails for AI use in Legal in partnership with Counsel, covering confidentiality, accuracy, privilege, and data handling, and document where AI helps versus where human review is required.
- Manage legal technology vendors, including coordinating security review, contracting, budgets, and performance.
- Administer Ironclad end to end: workflow and launch-form design, template management, approvals, user access, reporting, and its AI and obligation-tracking features, keeping workflows optimized as deal volume and the product grow.
- Integrate Ironclad with HubSpot for sales handoff and deal tracking, and with e-signature and other business systems as needs arise, using native connectors, APIs, or automation tools.
- Optimize workflows continuously as the business, deal volume, and product offering grow.
- Run a single front door for legal requests: triage inbound deals, NDAs, security questionnaires, and business requirements documents, set the track by customer type, and route work to the right person or tool.
- Maintain playbooks, templates, clause libraries, and approved fallback positions across customer and vendor deal tracks in partnership with internal Counsel.
- Create SOPs, a knowledge base, and self-service resources, and train Sales, Finance, and other stakeholders so routine contracting tasks get done without a lawyer.
- Handle commercial-track subscription agreements on standard paper using the approved playbook, prepare and process Order Forms with Sales and Finance, and escalate negotiated or non-standard terms to Commercial Counsel.
- Manage enterprise-track review and the contract review vendor relationship: send out counterparty paper, assess output against Blitzy’s playbook, and recommend what to redline, hold, or escalate to Enterprise Counsel - maintaining continuity across all redline rounds on every track, including vendor arrangements and other contracting processes.
- Report on contract cycle time, request volume and turnaround, playbook deviations, vendor performance, and legal tool spend, and build dashboards that surface bottlenecks, justify investments, and prioritize the next improvement.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or contract management, in-house at a SaaS or technology company (fast-growing strongly preferred). A J.D. is welcome but not required.
- Hands-on Ironclad CLM experience. You have administered Ironclad day to day and ideally led or been closely involved in an implementation, including workflow design, templates, permissions, reporting, and integrations.
- Experience connecting legal systems to CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce), e-signature, and automation tools.
- Direct Experience with AI-driven tools for legal work, with a working sense of where they save time and where they quietly introduce risk.
- Experience connecting legal systems to other business systems (for example, a CRM such as HubSpot or Salesforce, e-signature, or workflow automation tools).
- Strong understanding of SaaS agreements, NDAs, and Order Forms - enough to build playbooks and know what to escalate.
- Project management skills and comfort with data: you can scope a project, drive it across teams, and show measurable results.
- Familiarity with US and EU privacy law (GDPR, HIPAA, CPRA) and the contracts behind it — BAAs and DPAs is a plus.
- Familiarity with AI-specific contract issues: IP ownership of generated output, model usage rights, and liability among multiple vendors in a platform-based offering.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation: $90,000-$135,000 + Bonus + Equity
Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe different perspectives make us stronger. Base salary ranges are determined by country, role, level, experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects Blitzy’s good faith determination of the minimum and maximum targets for new hire salaries across all locations. Individual pay is determined by related factors, including job skills, experience, and relevant education or training, which may impact a final offer. Your Talent Partner can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Legal Operations Manager
Frame your degree as a direct match
USCIS requires a specific degree field tied to the role. A J.D., paralegal studies degree, or bachelor's in business administration with a legal focus is stronger than a general management degree when petitioning for H-1B specialty occupation status.
Target employers with an active H-1B filing history
Law firms, legal tech companies, and large corporate legal departments file H-1B petitions regularly. Employers already familiar with the process are significantly more likely to sponsor than those filing for the first time on your behalf.
Quantify your legal ops impact before interviews
Sponsoring employers want to see measurable outcomes: contract cycle time reduced, outside counsel spend lowered, matter management systems implemented. Concrete metrics make the business case for sponsorship easier for legal and HR teams to approve.
Understand the specialty occupation argument for this role
Legal operations is a relatively new function. Some employers and attorneys must build the specialty occupation argument carefully, linking the role's responsibilities to a specific degree requirement rather than general business or management experience.
Get your LCA timing right
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor before submitting your H-1B petition. This step typically takes one to two weeks and must be completed before USCIS filing, so factor it into your start date planning.
Consider O-1A if your background is exceptional
Legal operations leaders with published work, speaking engagements, industry awards, or a record of high-compensation employment may qualify for O-1A. This visa bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely and has no annual cap or nationality restrictions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Legal Operations Manager considered a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can be, but the petition requires careful construction. USCIS looks for a direct relationship between the role's duties and a specific degree field. Legal Operations Manager roles that require a J.D. or a bachelor's in legal studies, business administration, or information systems are stronger candidates than generalist management positions. The employer's attorney must document that a specific degree is a normal minimum requirement for this type of role.
What degree background do most sponsored Legal Operations Managers have?
Most sponsored candidates hold a J.D., a bachelor's in business administration, or an undergraduate degree in information systems or finance combined with legal sector experience. A J.D. is the most defensible credential for specialty occupation purposes because it ties directly to the legal domain. Candidates without a law degree often supplement their petition with documentation showing the role requires legal-specific knowledge that only a targeted degree program provides.
How competitive is H-1B lottery selection for this role?
All H-1B visa cap-subject petitions enter the same lottery regardless of job title. In recent years, USCIS has received well over 400,000 registrations for 85,000 available slots, resulting in selection rates around 20 to 25 percent. Legal Operations Managers employed by cap-exempt organizations, such as universities or nonprofit research institutions, can file outside the lottery at any time of year, which significantly changes the odds.
Which types of employers are most likely to sponsor a Legal Operations Manager?
Large law firms, legal technology companies, and corporate legal departments at Fortune 500 companies sponsor this role most frequently. These employers already have immigration counsel on retainer and established processes for H-1B petitions. Browse Migrate Mate to filter specifically for Legal Operations Manager roles at employers with documented sponsorship activity, which narrows your search to realistic opportunities without wasted outreach.
Can a Legal Operations Manager on H-1B change employers mid-status?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to start working for a new employer as soon as they file a transfer petition on your behalf, without waiting for approval. The new employer files a fresh I-129 petition, and you can begin working immediately upon receipt. Your legal status remains valid throughout, provided the new role also qualifies as a specialty occupation and the petition is filed before your current H-1B expires.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Legal Operations Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.