Legal Operations Manager

🏢 Fastly · 📍 New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA 💰 $143,860 - $172,632 / yr

⚡ Direct Talent Broker Referral

Why apply through CandidatesReach?

✔ Tailored Executive Endorsement Letter: Highlight your real strengths and verified background directly to hiring leads.

✔ Your Preferred Screening Terms: Choose between a 1-minute quick phone screen or scheduled email calendar.

✔ $500 Cash Hiring Bonus: Receive $500 direct cash reward after 30 days of active employment.

Position Summary & Responsibilities

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Posting Open Date: 10/1/26

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 1/1/27

*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Legal Operations Manager

Fastly's global edge cloud platform helps the world's most popular digital businesses deliver fast, secure, and reliable experiences to their customers. Our Legal team moves at the speed of the business, and we're looking for a Legal Operations Manager to help us do it even better. In this role, you'll help develop and manage the systems, processes, and relationships that keep Legal running efficiently, with a particular emphasis on how we thoughtfully put AI to work across the department. You'll partner directly with the Legal team (including the Chief Legal and Administrative Officer), Finance, IT, Business Systems, and Security to continue turning legal operations into a real competitive advantage. This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Director of Legal Operations, with room to grow within the Legal Operations organization.

What You'll Do:

Contract Lifecycle Management

Serve as the key administrator of Ironclad, owning templates, workflows, repository design, system configuration, and technical integrations (e.g., Salesforce, Claude, GitHub).
Help establish standardized, automated, efficient, and scalable contracting processes across business and legal teams, including intake, routing, review, approval, execution, and post-signature processes in close partnership with Legal, Sales, Finance, Procurement, IT, and other business stakeholders.
Strong focus on leveragin

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Fastly Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Low-latency systems engineering and edge computing mastery, testing absolute rigor in performance and reliability.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Hand-waving performance bottlenecks or ignoring network-level constraints
2. Lack of low-level debugging skills in C, Rust, or modern systems languages
3. Proposing bloated architectural layers that increase latency

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build lightning-fast edge architectures that push compute closer to the user without sacrificing reliability.

🔒 Free Candidate Preparation Access

Unlock Preparation Priorities & Alignment Hook

🤝 Talent Broker Referral · $500 Bonus Included

Apply for Legal Operations Manager

Setup your contact terms & referral note to get recommended directly to the hiring lead at Fastly.

⚡ Continue with Google (Instant Setup)

or with email

Already have an account? Sign in here