Sr Manager/Director, Legal Operations

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities. Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back? , as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations. To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us. Location: Remote Annual salary: USD 150,000 - USD 180,000 Type: Full-time Reports to: General Counsel About the Role We're hiring our first Sr Manager/Director, Legal Operations to serve as the front door of Legal at Nex Playground and to design and build the operational infrastructure the company will need over the next 18 months and beyond. The role may be leveled at Sr Manager or Director based on the candidate’s experience and demonstrated scope. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will be the first dedicated legal operations hire in the company. You will work in partnership with the GC and business leaders to define our target operating model, and build the systems, processes, and technology that let Legal, and the business it supports, move fast. This is a builder's role with real breadth. You'll lead the rollout of our first contract lifecycle management (CLM) system, stand up corporate governance rhythms, own legal aspects of our international entities, and build the playbooks and templates. You'll also spend real time in the weeds triaging requests, coordinating signatures, and being the person the rest of the company calls first, while building the systems that reduce how much of that falls on you over time. The work is heavily corporate and commercial: retail and distribution agreements, vendor and supply chain contracts, brand licensing deals, NDAs, and the corporate housekeeping that comes with a fast-growing, increasingly international hardware + software company. What You'll Do Legal Intake & Contract Operations Be the front door of Legal: own intake for all incoming legal requests, triage and route them appropriately, track status, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Lead implementation of our first CLM system (Spotdraft or Ironclad), including workflow design, templates, approval routing, finance and e-signature integration, and reporting. Build our formal contract lifecycle from the ground up: drafting support, redlining coordination, approvals, execution, and repository/renewal tracking for NDAs, vendor agreements, retail and distribution contracts, and brand licensing agreements. Design a template and playbook library for our highest-volume agreement types, in partnership with the GC and Commercial Counsel, so the business can self-serve on lower-risk requests. Establish signature and approval workflows, including delegation of authority guidelines, e-signature administration (e.g., DocuSign), and coordination of notarization where needed. Own Nex's employment-related form library (offer letters, standard employment agreements, contractor agreements, separation agreements, and similar templates), keeping them current and legally sound. People/HR populates and issues these day-to-day; you own the underlying template and update it as law or company policy changes. Corporate Governance & Entity Management Support corporate governance motions: track board and committee meeting materials, minutes, and written consents in partnership with the GC and CFO. Maintain the corporate minute book, equity documentation, and corporate records, and coordinate with Finance/People on cap table accuracy and equity administration touchpoints (option grants, 409A timing). Manage legal aspects of Nex's growing family of international entities: formations, dissolutions, foreign qualifications, registered agents, and local corporate filings as we expand into new markets. Own trademark and brand licensing docketing: track licensor obligations, renewal deadlines, and brand compliance requirements across our partnership and licensing agreements, and maintain our internal trademark portfolio calendar. [Manage the corporate insurance program (general liability, product liability, cyber, D&O): track renewals, coordinate broker relationships, and issue certificates of insurance for retail and distribution partners.] Cross-Functional & Compliance Support Administer vendor and outside counsel relationships: onboarding, billing oversight, budget tracking, and performance check-ins across the legal team's matters. You own the administrative layer; each attorney directs substantive strategy on their own active matters. Build the legal team's knowledge management and document repository and establish a records retention policy. Stand up legal metrics and reporting: request volume, cycle times, contract turnaround, and outside counsel spend, to give leadership visibility into how Legal is performing. Identif