Legal Operations Manager

About us:

BVNK is the stablecoin-powered financial stack for enterprises. We're now part of Mastercard, and together we're building a network for every form of money – one that delivers more reach, more capability and more choice.

We enable businesses to build financial products, unlock new markets, and move money in seconds across 130+ countries, with 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets globally. Processing billions annually, we empower enterprises worldwide to send, receive, convert, and settle stablecoins and fiat seamlessly through a single integration.

Our mission is to accelerate global money movement, and we're assembling a world-class team to make it happen.

Trusted by industry leaders like Corpay, Worldpay, Deel, and Flywire, we deliver the infrastructure that makes new forms of money usable within the financial systems customers already rely on today.

By combining Mastercard's global payment reach and trusted networks with BVNK's stablecoin infrastructure, we're building the trusted operating layer for the evolution of money movement, helping customers participate in emerging digital networks without having to rebuild their businesses around every new innovation.

We're a diverse team spread across EMEA, North America, and APAC, with a shared belief that stablecoins are the new infrastructure layer for financial services, and that BVNK is at the forefront of this shift.

We're incredibly honored to have been recognized by:

• CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies (2026)
• FXC Intelligence Top 100 Cross-border Payment Companies (2026)
• Newsweek's The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces (three years running, most recently 2025)
• LinkedIn as one of the Top 20 Startups in the UK (2025)

About this role in the team:

We’re looking for a Legal operations manager to help introduce structure, systems, and strategy into the day-to-day work of our legal function to free up our lawyers to focus on high-value work and to help the team deliver faster, smarter, and with less stress.

We’re looking for someone who is tech-savvy who can both build and execute. You’ll be hands-on with legal tooling, processes, and reporting, while also collaborating with our product, engineering, and data teams to scale legal infrastructure. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of legal, technology, and operations in a fast-growing global fintech.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Tooling & Workflow Development: Build, configure, and maintain day-to-day tools (e.g., LawVu, Salesforce, Jira, Slack) and workflows to support legal operations. Partner with engineers and product teams to design scalable systems.
• Contract Management: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of contracts, including templates, versioning, automation, alerts, and integration with other business systems.
• Data & Reporting: Create dashboards, track legal KPIs, and maintain legal data integrity across platforms. Use insights to drive team efficiency and prioritisation. 
• Vendor & Spend Management: Manage external counsel relationships, track legal spend, oversee invoice processing, and support budgeting and forecasting.
• Project Management: Lead key legal initiatives, such as licensing applications and operationalisations, tool integrations, audits, and regulatory readiness. Own timelines, risks, and delivery outcomes.
• Privacy & Compliance Support: Collaborate with the DPO to operationalise data protection processes and support regulatory compliance.
• AI & Automation: Identify and implement AI or automation opportunities (e.g., contract analysis, workflow routing, doc generation) to reduce manual effort.
• Training & Enablement: Train legal and business teams on tooling and processes; promote self-service and adoption of scalable systems.

What we need from you:

• Legal operations or project/program management experience in a fast-paced legal, compliance or similar team.
• Comfortable building workflows directly in tools like Salesforce, LawVu or similar (not just overseeing implementation).
• Experience building out automations, AI programmes and workflow optimisations
• Strong technical fluency: can speak the language of engineers, draft requirements, and test configurations.
• Highly organised with experience managing complex, cross-functional projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and partner across legal, engineering, product, and commercial teams.
• Proficient in tools like Slack, Jira, Google Workspace, DocuSign, and data reporting tools (e.g. Quicksite).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, SaaS, crypto, or other regulated tech sectors.
• Familiarity with financial services agreements or SaaS agreement structures and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR).
• Interest in or experience implementing legal tech, CLM platforms, or workflow automation.
• A growth mindset and curiosity about building things from scratch.

What you can expect from us:

• Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
• Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
• A culture built on passionate, growth-minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world
• An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets

At BVNK, we are focused on building a diverse and inclusive team. While you may not meet all of our requirements, we’d encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of our expectations. You may be a great fit for this role or another role in our team.