--- title: Legal Operations Lead at Modal in New York, NY description: Modal is hiring for the Legal Operations Lead role in New York, NY. Pays $160K–$210K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/legal-operations-lead-at-modal-01a10de0-3d83-7151-80b7-ce20b60794d2 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Modal as Legal Operations Lead in New York, NY. Pays $160K–$210K per year. Full-time, on-site role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/qtu3wl.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Modal | | **Location** | New York, NY | | **Salary** | $160K/yr - $210K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 05, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** C · Some flags. Mostly fine, a few things to check. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Modal sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 15 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Modal. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $197,000 – $288,000 a year (median $227,000). ## Description ## **About Us:** AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like [Ramp](https://modal.com/blog/how-ramp-built-a-full-context-background-coding-agent-on-modal), Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,[Seaborn](https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn),[Luigi](https://github.com/spotify/luigi)), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. ## The Role: We’re looking for a Legal Operations Lead to join us as the first dedicated legal operations hire at Modal. You’ll own the systems, records, and workflows that let a small legal team keep pace with a high-growth tech company, and you’ll have an opportunity to build most of them from scratch. This is a great fit for a highly organized, systems-oriented operator who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to build operational foundations, not just maintain them. You’ll report to our General Counsel and collaborate closely with the Finance, BizOps, GTM, and People teams. ## What You’ll Work On: - Build and maintain contract operations, including designing the contract lifecycle management workflows and approval logic, and continuing to iterate and improve those processes - Design a legal intake process to support and route legal requests from internal stakeholders - Make the legal function faster with AI, and build and configure tooling to make us more efficient - Manage corporate administration and record-keeping, including Board and stockholder matters, signature coordination, and building a knowledge management system and database - Be the point person for corporate compliance, including entity management, foreign and domestic qualifications and filings, and coordination with registered agents - Support stock administration and cap table hygiene - Manage outside counsel and legal spend ## You May Be a Fit If: - You have 5+ years in legal operations, contract operations, or a corporate paralegal role, preferably at a high-growth technology company - You’ve built and documented processes from the ground up, not just executed existing ones - You have experience configuring workflows and templates within Ironclad or a similar CLM - You have experience with AI tools and good instincts about where they help and where they quietly introduce risk - You have sound judgment about what to handle and what to escalate ## Nice-to-Have: - Exposure to corporate and equity administration - Familiarity with Carta or a similar equity administration platform ## Skills - Legal Operations - Database Management - Hygiene - Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge Management - Stock/Equity Administration - Contract Lifecycle Management - Coordinating - Ironclad - Paralegal - Equity Compensation - Cap Table Management - Regulatory Compliance ## Related - [Legal & Compliance jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/legal-and-compliance?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Paralegal & Legal Support jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/legal-and-compliance/paralegal-and-legal-support?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Legal Operations Specialist jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/legal-and-compliance/paralegal-and-legal-support/legal-operations-specialist?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150106 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66067 jobs - [Software Development](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 14688 jobs ## Related pages - [New York](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 150106 jobs - [New York, NY](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/new-york/new-york?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 66067 jobs - [Software Development](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 14688 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)