Senior Paralegal

About the role

CHANEL is seeking a Senior Paralegal to join our Legal team in New York. This role plays a critical part in supporting a broad range of corporate legal functions, including litigation, employment, commercial matters, and compliance. You will serve as a trusted partner to attorneys and cross-functional stakeholders, driving organization, efficiency, and operational excellence across legal processes.

Responsibilities

• Support the Legal team across litigation, employment, regulatory, and commercial matters, ensuring seamless coordination and execution.
• Drive efficient case management, including tracking workflows, timelines, and key deliverables across multiple matters.
• Partner with outside counsel to support legal team, including organizing files, gathering documents and coordinating interviews.
• Strengthen risk mitigation efforts by supporting investigations, monitoring regulations, and legal monitoring processes.
• Build and maintain a centralized, user-friendly database for tracking U.S. legal and regulatory developments.
• Ensure proper handling of litigation holds, document preservation, and records management protocols.
• Track budget and legal spend.

Requirements

The ideal candidate brings strong legal acumen, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to manage complex matters in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while embracing innovative tools, including artificial intelligence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of paralegal experience in a dynamic environment with exposure to multiple areas of law.
• Strong understanding of legal workflows and case management.
• Experience supporting discovery, litigation holds, and investigations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities independently while maintaining high-quality work.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated judgment and discretion.
• Experience with legal and business systems such as iManage, Coupa, and Microsoft tools, as well as with tracking legislation, budgeting/spend and maintaining legal databases.
• Agility in adopting AI-enabled tools.

Skills

You are energized by:

• Working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment with legal and business stakeholders.
• Manning complex workflows and multiple priorities with precision and attention to detail.
• Taking ownership of matters from initiation through resolution and delivering high-quality results.
• Navigating ambiguity and proactively identifying risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence, to perform efficiently.

Benefits

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure) and a Wellbeing fund.
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership).
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days.
• 401K and other incentives.
• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program.
• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking.

Pay

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $87,500 through $120,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks.

Schedule

Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the NYC office.