A Career with Point72's Legal Team
Our Legal team’s mission is to deliver exceptional legal services in a manner that promotes the firm’s performance with the utmost integrity. Our Legal department supports all Point72 groups globally with practical advice on a variety of complex legal and regulatory matters in an ever-changing, dynamic environment.
What you'll do
- Build and own the operational backbone for the Legal department, partnering with the General Counsel and department leadership to execute long-term strategy, set priorities, and align resources with firm goals
- Develop and manage the annual legal department budget, track legal spend, identify cost-saving opportunities, and streamline invoice processing
- Improve core legal processes, including matter intake, triage, workflow routing, document management, knowledge management, and operational onboarding
- Design data infrastructure, reporting, and dashboards that show matter volumes, assignments, capacity, cycle times, throughput, and spend trends
- Lead the legal technology roadmap, including the evaluation, implementation, integration, administration, and adoption of systems and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled workflows
- Govern automation and AI use to preserve privilege, respect information barriers, and meet regulatory defensibility expectations
- Manage operational relationships with legal technology vendors and outside counsel, including onboarding, billing guidelines, invoice review, and performance tracking
- Oversee entity management, corporate housekeeping, regulatory calendars, filings tracking, renewals, and operational support for fund-regulation workstreams
- Maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, precedents, data taxonomies, and capture standards that enable consistent reporting and downstream automation
What's required
- At least eight years of experience in legal operations, legal project management, or a comparable operational role
- Experience working in a law firm, asset manager, bank, or other regulated financial institution
- Hands-on experience implementing, administering, or operating a document management system
- Demonstrated ownership of legal processes, vendor and outside counsel management, metrics, and reporting
- Strong project management skills with the ability to run multiple workstreams to completion with minimal oversight
- Excellent judgment when handling confidentiality, privilege, and sensitive information in a high-trust environment
- Strong data orientation, including designing taxonomies, defining data capture requirements, and translating operational data into actionable reporting
- Comfort with legal technology, automation, and AI-enabled workflows, with a practical understanding of how they can improve legal work
- Proven ability to drive process and technology adoption across teams through training, measurement, and stakeholder engagement
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Tuition assistance
- A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
About Point72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.
The annual base salary range for this role is $250,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
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