Who We Are
Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.
Who You Are
We are looking for another rockstar to join our fast growing legal team who has a combination of legal support skills and experience covering legal operations and contracts management. This is an exciting opportunity to help us uplevel our legal operations function and also be the first in-house contracts manager in our fast-moving sales and procurement environment. This role will support our current systems, processes, and dealmaking flows, as well as help build new workflows and structures to contribute to our continued growth and efficiency.
If you have experience in an in-house legal department and are ready to take on new challenges, we would love to hear from you! If you enjoy building from the ground up, this role is for you! We are an “in the office” company and this role is based in our headquarters in San Mateo, CA.
What You’ll Be Expected To Do
- Legal Billing Management:
- Support Legal eBilling processes, including budget forecasting, spend management, vendor relationships, and reporting.
- Ensure compliance with billing guidelines and collaborate with finance teams to resolve any billing discrepancies.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for law firm engagement letters.
- Contracts Management:
- Assist in managing our Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool as part of our overall contract lifecycle management program.
- Organize and manage Verkada’s contract records.
- Support the legacy contract migration process into our CLM, ensuring accurate search and reporting.
- Provide frontline support for cross-functional business teams-including sales, marketing, product, sourcing, and finance on a contract-related processes.
- Be the team’s first in-house contract manager responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of inbound and outbound contracts (from NDAs to vendor agreements to customer agreements).
- General Legal Operations Support:
- Organize and maintain legal files and documentation in Google Drive.
- Handle ad-hoc legal questions and requests from various departments.
- Provide administrative support to the legal team as needed.
- Provide support for eDiscovery processes and system management.
- Contribute to the development of enablement resources for legal and business teams.
What You’ll Need
- 2-6+ years experience as an in-house legal operations specialist, paralegal and/or contracts manager with a proficiency in:
- negotiating a variety of inbound and outbound contracts (from NDAs to vendor agreements to customer agreements)
- managing and supporting a CLM platform (preferably Ironclad)
- managing and supporting a legal billing platform (preferably Brightflag)
- handling various eDiscovery processes (such as legal holds, document collections, and reviews, preferably in Logikcull), and contract review.
- Superior organizational skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity withGoogle Drive, Slack, Docusign, Asana, and MS 365.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced start-up environment
US Perks & Benefits
Verkada is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all employees and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 80% for family premiums
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- $200 monthly Commuter stipend
- Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
Pay Disclosure
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range.
This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).Estimated Annual Pay Range$90,000 - $175,000USD
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
