Senior Paralegal, Legal Operations
About the role
Sweetwater, the nation's number one retailer of music instruments and pro audio gear, is seeking to add a Senior Paralegal, Legal Operations to our growing Legal team! The Senior Paralegal, Legal Operations position is not a traditional Paralegal role. This position is an exciting opportunity to merge legal and operational work as a key partner to the General Counsel and Legal Team's attorneys supporting the department across a broad array of functions including contract review and management, litigation support, regulatory compliance (including data privacy and AI) and day to day legal project management and administration. In this role, you will operate in a highly collaborative capacity, interacting directly with the entire Legal & Compliance Team and stakeholders across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for conducting initial contract reviews and redlines of agreements and maintaining a contract repository
- Build and supervise work product of AI agents
- Perform intake and assessment, legal hold issuance and tracking, data collection and e‑discovery coordination, and internal stakeholder communications
- Assist with responses to subpoenas, warrants, and other inquiries (e.g CIDs), including scope evaluation, deadline management, and document/data production in collaboration with attorneys and business stakeholders
- Responsible for coordinating signature workflows, ensures proper execution of agreements, manages administrative items related to outside counsel relationships
- Assist with managing existing portfolio, docketing deadlines, Legal Dept intake process for new IP requests, assist with USPTO searches
- Perform research and analysis on applicable regulatory requirements, draft/maintain/develop regulatory filings.
- Prepare and assist with corporate