Paralegal – Legal Operations

Location: New York, NY, USA; onsite

Salary: $80,000–$100,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides niche consulting services for the architecture, engineering, and construction industries, including building envelope, energy efficiency, sustainability, code advisory, and construction advisory services.

What you will do

• Review, organize, administer, and monitor client, vendor, consultant, subcontractor, and other business contracts.
• Track contractual obligations, deadlines, renewals, insurance requirements, indemnification, liability limits, and other risk-allocation provisions.
• Manage contract management, legal document management, intake, approval, execution, storage, and reporting processes.
• Improve Legal Department workflows, systems, automation, document retention, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Support employment matters, insurance claims, litigation, arbitration, discovery, subpoenas, and dispute-related documentation.
• Coordinate with the General Counsel, attorneys, executives, Human Resources, insurers, outside counsel, Information Technology, and business teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant paralegal experience.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Experience with contract review and administration, employment matters, insurance claims, and litigation or disputes.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, communication, independent judgment, and deadline management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to handle confidential legal, employee, and personnel information professionally.

Nice to have

• Experience in architecture, engineering, construction, real estate, professional services, or a similar organization.
• Experience with LinkSquares or another contract lifecycle management platform.
• Experience implementing legal operations workflows, document management systems, or electronic legal databases.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted or agentic tools for legal and business workflow automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position within the US Corporate Legal Department.
• Work involves collaboration across Legal, Human Resources, Information Technology, business operations, insurers, and outside counsel.
• Confidential information is handled according to professional standards and EEO guidelines.
• hirify.global is an Equal Opportunity Employer.