Boulevard - Senior Legal Specialist

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in legal operations, contract management, corporate paralegal, compliance, or a comparable business-facing legal role. We value demonstrated ability over an exact title or tenure, so apply if you have the depth even if the years don't line up precisely. • Business Partnership: Experience serving as a trusted resource to business stakeholders and helping teams navigate complex or ambiguous situations. • Business Partnership: • Legal Judgment: Ability to identify issues, assess risk, distinguish between routine and novel matters, and know when escalation is required. • Legal Judgment: • Contracts: Comfortable reviewing and managing common commercial agreements such as NDAs, vendor contracts, and order forms. • Contracts: • Issue Spotting & Triage: Comfortable gathering incomplete information, asking the right questions, and turning vague requests into actionable next steps. • Issue Spotting & Triage: • Operational Excellence: Strong process orientation with experience improving workflows, documentation, and systems. • Operational Excellence: • Ownership Mindset: Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and drive work to completion without constant oversight. • Ownership Mindset: • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues clearly to non-legal audiences. • Communication: • Systems, AI & Automation: Hands-on experience using AI tools (contract review, drafting, research, or workflow automation) to improve efficiency, with genuine curiosity about applying emerging technology to legal work. Comfort experimenting with new tools and a point of view on where AI helps and where human judgment is still required. • Systems, AI & Automation: • Adaptability: Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid context switching, and supporting a wide range of subject matters in a fast-growing company. • Adaptability: • Relationship Building: Ability to build trust and credibility across functions and influence outcomes without formal authority. • Relationship Building: • Ideal backgrounds: • Ideal backgrounds: • We're less focused on a specific title and more focused on finding someone who has successfully operated at the intersection of legal, compliance, operations, and business partnership. Backgrounds that often succeed in this role include: • Senior Paralegal or Corporate Paralegal • Legal Operations Analyst or Manager • Contract Manager or Commercial Contracts Specialist • Legal Specialist or Legal Coordinator • Compliance Analyst or Specialist with strong operational and stakeholder-management experience • This role is intentionally broad. Successful candidates are energized by navigating ambiguity, partnering directly with business teams, and building scalable solutions, not simply executing within established processes. We're especially interested in candidates who have championed AI or automation adoption within a legal or operations function. If you're excited about the work but don't meet every qualification, we'd still encourage you to apply. • How we'll take care of you: • At Boulevard, we work hard to structure compensation in a way that balances internal equity with local market competitiveness, and we’re happy to share a good-faith estimate of the base salary range for this role. For candidates in NYC, the SF Bay Area, and Seattle, the anticipated base salary range is $107,300 - $134,090 per year. For all other U.S. locations, the anticipated base salary range is $97,500 - $134,000 per year. In addition to this base compensation, this role may be eligible to participate in a variable compensation program. Final compensation will vary based on a variety of factors which include but are not limited to applicable experience, location, and final leveling. • In addition to the wonderful people you’ll get to work with and challenging projects that’ll push you - Boulevard is here to make sure you’re always at the top of your game emotionally, mentally, and physically. • ✨ We’ve got you covered with a 401(k) match plus dental, medical, vision, and life insurance. • 🏝 Take a break whenever you need with our flexible vacation day policy. • 🖥 Fully remote so you can choose where you want to work. You’ll receive a work from home stipend every month. • 💚 Family planning resources and specialized support programs. • 🔮 Equity: get ahead on the ground floor and grow with Boulevard. • 💅 Boulevard Bucks Learning and Development program allows employees to explore businesses in the market we serve. • 📲 We recommend following our official LinkedIn page to stay up to date on all things Boulevard life!