Legal Operations Analyst
Organization Summary
Cascade Asset Management Company (“Cascade”) is proud to protect and grow capital in service of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust in support of their mission‑related and philanthropic activities. Mr. Gates and the Foundation Trust are committed to creating a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. Located in the Seattle area, Cascade applies its fundamental, long‑horizon investment approach across asset classes and geographies, primarily through direct investing, as well as through a select group of funds and segregated accounts. Cascade offers the unique blend of being part of a team that manages a multi‑billion‑dollar portfolio while also working with professionals in a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and respect.
Team Description
Our 19‑person legal and regulatory team prioritizes collaboration, creativity, and innovation. In addition to providing superb legal advice, our team focuses on building deep relationships to add value to our investment process.
Position Description
The Legal Operations Analyst will design, maintain, and enhance systems and tools that support legal operations, with a strong emphasis on data integrity, analytics and reporting, automation, generative AI, and process optimization. This role supports the legal and regulatory team’s work on trading, transactions, risk and assurance, and compliance matters related to our diverse public and private portfolio. It bridges the gap between legal and technical domains and is ideal for someone who has worked inside legal workflows, is proficient in Power BI, and actively experiments with AI tools. The analyst will develop and manage workflows, legal datasets, and scalable solutions that improve efficiency and support Cascade’s legal and compliance efforts, collaborating cross‑functionally with legal, technology, and other investment operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Data & Reporting: Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, data models, and reporting that give the legal team and leadership visibility into legal, compliance, and risk and assurance data.
- Legal Tech Systems: Oversee systems and processes for various legal data and workflows, including knowledge management, trade support, regulatory compliance, employee trading, vendor contracts, enterprise risk management, assurance, and more. Administer, populate, and report from multiple databases that capture information about our legal entities, investments, trading restrictions, counterparties, workflows, and other matters.
- Process Optimization & Automation: Identify operational inefficiencies and propose and implement scalable, tech‑enabled solutions; own and evolve workflows.
- Enterprise Risk: Maintain dynamic risk assessment frameworks and tools to facilitate annual risk reviews, assurance activities, and reports to leadership.
- AI Exploration & Implementation: Research and evaluate emerging AI tools relevant to legal and compliance functions, provide adoption recommendations, and design and execute implementation plans. Configure and maintain AI capabilities such as review playbooks, custom skills and prompts, and contract intelligence repositories, testing and iterating on outputs with accountability for quality. Stay current on legal tech and AI trends to inform system enhancements and innovation opportunities.
- Training & Adoption: Drive adoption of legal technology and AI across the legal and regulatory team through demonstrations, user guides, feedback loops, and tracking/reporting of outcomes.
- Project Management: Participate in and manage legal and cross‑department projects.
How You’ll Work
- Work on systems and projects end‑to‑end, from scoping through delivery, often starting with underspecified problems.
- Take ownership of problems, applying genuine curiosity and practical judgment, seeking guidance when required and escalating only when necessary.
- Persist with hard problems, finding alternative approaches rather than handing the problem back.
- Commit to dates, hit them, and flag slippage early when a date is at risk.
- Seek direct feedback and act on it quickly.
- Comfortably operate without a detailed roadmap in an environment where priorities shift.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with strong academic credentials in a relevant field (e.g., pre‑law, business analytics, computer science, or similar).
- Three to six years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, compliance operations, or a comparable analytical role, with direct exposure to legal or compliance workflows.
- Strong Power BI skills preferred, including data modeling, DAX, and dashboard design, plus strong Excel skills and hands‑on familiarity with Smartsheet; experience with SQL and Power Apps is a strong plus.
- Experience with legal tools such as GC AI, Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, or comparable is a strong plus.
- Hands‑on experience with AI tools, a demonstrated appetite for experimentation, and a practical understanding of where these tools succeed and where they fail.
- Familiarity with data security, information governance, and compliance considerations for AI and legal technology is a plus.
- Strong analytical and process‑improvement skills; ability to work with complex data and systems.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to present confidently and lead demonstrations and training sessions for groups.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross‑functional environment with internal and external contacts at all levels, establishing credibility with senior stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non‑technical audiences.
Pay
Base salary for this position will be determined during the interview process and will generally range between $120,000 and $140,000 per year, though the final salary may fall outside this range based on experience, education, business needs, and market factors. Eligible employees may also participate in a generous annual performance‑based discretionary bonus program.
Benefits
- Comprehensive fully paid medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long‑term disability insurance.
- Generous employer match to 401(k) retirement savings contributions.
- 18 days of paid vacation each year for the first four years of employment.
- Eight paid holidays plus up to three floating holidays per year. <