Senior Legal Operations Manager

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About 9fin</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>The opportunity</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring our first dedicated legal operations team member to sit at the heart of 9fin's growing Legal Affairs function. This is a broad, hands-on role and a rare opportunity to shape how a scale-up in-house legal team runs from the inside out.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll own the operational engine of the team: our contract lifecycle platform (Ironclad, which is deeply embedded across sales, procurement and RevOps), our commercial playbook (and developing non-commercial playbooks), our tech stack (including AI implementation), our front-door (right now, ticketing is done in Linear), our knowledge management (currently spread across multiple systems), our reporting and KPIs, and the tracking and governance around outside counsel spend.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll also be a project manager and a hands-on partner to the General Counsel. That includes co-drafting monthly and quarterly business reviews, leading and coordinating cross-functional initiatives (for example M&amp;A diligence coordination, trademark portfolio work, or regulatory readiness workstreams), and holding a high bar for organisation so nothing on a small, fast-moving team drops.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll report to the General Counsel and work alongside legal colleagues in London and New York. This is a London-based role and we typically expect the team to be in the office three days a week.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What you’ll work on</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Below is the shape of the role, laid out as prioritised by Now, Next and Later so you can see the broad strokes of the path ahead - but by no means is this set in stone. Priorities will move as we learn what's most useful in practice and you’ll have a big hand in shaping this further.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Now</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Tune legal intake - help us build out the “front door” for legal requests across the business.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Sales, Finance, InfoSec and Procurement to streamline deal-desk and approval processes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support on knowledge management and internal policy administration. Consolidate knowledge, templates, and other information in a clean accessible structure.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em&q