Legal Project Manager

3 days ago


San Jose CA United States PayPal Full time

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness.

Job Description Summary: PayPal’s Legal Operations team is seeking a Legal Project Manager to manage large outside counsel matters throughout their lifecycle to ensure they are run efficiently. In this role, they will provide world-class matter planning, firm selection support, monitoring, and reporting to optimize each project from start to finish in a cost-effective manner. The ideal candidate is a passionate legal project management professional who is organized, detail-oriented, data-driven, and proactive.

Your day to day:

  • Manage assigned matters to maximize efficiency, with a focus on planning, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost control.
  • Help build and enhance the company’s legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices.
  • Serve as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader.
  • Coordinate RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs.
  • Drive collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders.
  • Build and maintain legal project management guidelines, trainings, and playbooks to support the Legal Department.
  • Proactively seek ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function.
  • Assist eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed.
  • Provide project support, reporting, and analysis as requested in relation to outside counsel management and legal operations.

What do you need to bring:

  • 5+ years of work experience in legal project management; experience in a law firm or large in-house legal team preferred.
  • PMP or similar project management experience preferred.
  • High level of professionalism, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Bias for action and proactive, on-time delivery.
  • Always seeking ways to improve/enhance processes, find efficiencies, and think outside the box.
  • Successfully handle assignments with minimal supervision.
  • Technology-savvy; proficient in all Microsoft Office applications with strong Excel and analytical skills required.

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is $64000 to $156750.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging.

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