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Paralegal – Legal Engineer
C&W DustTech. Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways for the company to get legal support .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in legal workflow design, contract management, and legal research, with a strong focus on process improvement and automation. Proficient in drafting and reviewing legal documents while ensuring compliance with legal standards and confidentiality.
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Legal TrainingContract Management SystemsLegal WritingProcess DesignLegal Research
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Hard Skills
Contract ReviewNDA DraftingSaaS AgreementsMSA PreparationDPA ReviewVendor ContractsIssue SpottingAutomationLegal PlaybooksWorkflow Improvement
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationOrganisedCollaborativeProactive OwnershipJudgment
Tools & Technologies
DustNo-Code ToolsLow-Code ToolsAI WorkflowsContract Management Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
Law DegreeParalegal Qualification
Industry Keywords
Commercial LawLegal OperationsData ProtectionPrivacyConfidential Information
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways for the company to get legal support
- Translate legal rules and approved playbooks into workflows, templates, structured guidance and automations
- Build and improve legal workflows using Dust and other appropriate tools, including intake, contract review and approval processes
- Test workflows, gather feedback, document how they work and iterate to improve quality and adoption
- Build controls into processes, including lawyer review points, escalation paths and safeguards for confidential information
- Draft, review and prepare redlines for NDAs, SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts and partnership agreements
- Support negotiation and deal execution with Sales, GTM and other teams under lawyer supervision
- Identify legal, privacy, data protection, security and AI-related issues and bring them to the right lawyer for review
- Conduct legal research, prepare issue summaries and develop practical options for resolving contract questions
- Progressively take on more responsibility while escalating non-standard or higher-risk issues to qualified counsel
- Create and improve templates, playbooks, legal knowledge resources and tools for routine legal work
- Improve systems that make matter status, contract obligations and key deadlines visible
- Work with the General Counsel, Commercial Counsel and external counsel across a varied commercial workload
Requirements
What you’ll need- Legal training, such as a law degree, paralegal qualification or equivalent experience
- Some experience in a paralegal, legal assistant, commercial contracts or legal operations role is helpful; strong early-career candidates are also considered
- Clear legal writing, research and issue-spotting skills
- Interest in commercial law
- Interest or experience in process design, automation, no-code or low-code tools, AI workflows or contract-management systems
- Business-standard English is required
- Business-standard French is a strong advantage, but not essential
- Willingness to travel to the US or Paris from time to time when required
- Curiosity and motivation to develop as a commercial legal professional
- Organised, careful and discreet when handling confidential information
- Clear communication and comfort asking questions, surfacing uncertainty and taking feedback
- Collaborative and pragmatic approach
- Proactive ownership of process improvements from problem definition through implementation, testing and iteration
- Judgment to move work forward while escalating decisions requiring qualified legal review
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity
- Macbook Air (13" or 15" screen) for non-tech/GTM, and Macbook Pro (14" or 16" screen) for tech
- Choice of American, British or French keyboard
- Flexible work-from-home when it makes more sense for the work
- Potential consideration for an England & Wales training contract, subject to performance, business needs, eligibility and formal approval
- In-person collaboration in offices in Paris, London, San Francisco and New York