
Associate Program Manager, Legal Operations
Instacart
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $102,000 - $129,000 per year
About the role
- Own end-to-end commercial contracting intake and triage, ensuring complete packages, accurate routing, and on-time progress through drafting, review, and approvals.
- Coordinate retailer/CPG onboarding across Sales, Sales Ops, IT, and Finance; run regular standups, unblock dependencies, and drive escalations to shorten cycle times.
- Administer and improve CLM and Salesforce workflows, including templates, playbooks, approval matrices, clause libraries, data hygiene, and operational dashboards.
- Define and maintain process documentation and SLAs; create and deliver training that enables go-to-market and legal stakeholders to self-serve confidently.
- Measure what matters by tracking KPIs (e.g., cycle time, approval latency, rework rate); analyze bottlenecks, recommend experiments, and deliver continuous process improvements.
- Manage a dynamic queue of priorities with clear stakeholder communication, proactive risk identification, and crisp execution in a constantly evolving environment.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in legal operations, sales operations, contract management, or program coordination within a high-growth or enterprise environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or 4+ additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Hands-on experience with a CLM platform (e.g., Ironclad, Icertis, Conga, Agiloft), including building or administering workflows, templates, and reports.
- Proficiency with Salesforce (reporting and dashboards) and Google Sheets/Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP).
- Experience coordinating cross-functional commercial contracting workflows (e.g., NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, Order Forms) with Legal, Sales, Finance, and IT stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage projects using tools such as Asana, Jira, or Smartsheet and to deliver against defined SLAs in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting revenue workflows in marketplace, ad tech, e-commerce, or retailer/CPG partnership environments.
- Experience implementing or migrating a CLM or related workflow solution and driving adoption at scale.
- Familiarity with deal desk processes, pricing and approvals, and revenue-related controls (e.g., SOX) for commercial contracts.
- Ability to build or maintain dashboards in Looker or Tableau and conduct root-cause analyses on cycle time and throughput.
- Certification(s) such as Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or involvement with CLOC or similar legal operations communities.
Benefits
- Remote work options
- Equity grants
- Annual refresh grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
contract managementworkflow administrationdata analysisKPI trackingproject managementprocess documentationroot-cause analysisdata hygienereportingcontinuous process improvement
Soft skills
stakeholder communicationrisk identificationproblem-solvingcross-functional coordinationtraining deliveryproactive managementadaptabilityexecutionorganizational skillsleadership
Certifications
Lean Six SigmaPMPCLOC