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The Senior Legal Assistant provides the daily administrative operations of the Legal department, contributing to the accomplishment of department objectives. This role provides administrative, project management, research, and organizational skills to assist legal counsel, management, sales team, and customers in the preparation and facilitation of legal contracts.
What You’ll Do
- Draft, review, and manage various commercial contracts, agreements, reports, and legal documents
- Edit and update existing contract templates with accurate customer information
- Collaborate with attorneys, management, sales teams, and customers to execute contracts
- Facilitate amendment creation and execution
- Assist with contract administration and general compliance
- Manage multiple legal projects and contracts with various timelines
- Negotiate Non Disclosure Agreements and other contract types (as needed) utilizing playbooks
- Conduct legal research and analyze a variety of issues
What You’ll Need
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with contracts administration
- Minimum of Associate’s degree
- Minimum of 3 years of related experience in legal administrative support
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting an in-house legal department in the SaaS industry
- Experience supporting a Sales organization
- Paralegal Certification (ABA approved or NALA) preferred
- Detail oriented with strong organization and follow-through skills
- Proven effective written, verbal and listening communication skills
- Ability to work successfully in a high-energy, fast paced, rapidly changing environment; must be able to multitask while working under pressure to meet deadlines
- Outstanding interpersonal skills; able to develop working relationships with employees from all departments and all levels of management
Travel Requirements & Working Conditions
- Minimal Travel
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office
How You’ll Be Rewarded
✅ Salary range in the US: $23.00 - $37.00✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy
Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/
Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits
Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.
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Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
