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title: 'Legal Operations Analyst at Cascade Asset Management Company'
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# Legal Operations Analyst at Cascade Asset Management Company

- **Company:** Cascade Asset Management Company
- **Location:** Kirkland, WA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/cascademgt/b9e24d92-1aad-4bdd-bdb6-226ea68f0efc

## Job description

Cascade Asset Management Company (“Cascade”) is proud to protect and grow capital in service of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust in support of their mission-related and philanthropic activities.  Mr. Gates and the Foundation Trust are committed to creating a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.

Located in the Seattle area, Cascade applies its fundamental, long-horizon investment approach across asset classes and geographies, primarily through direct investing, as well as through a select group of funds and segregated accounts.  Cascade offers the unique blend of being part of a team that manages a multi-billion-dollar portfolio while also working with professionals in a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and respect.

Team DescriptionOur 19-person legal and regulatory team prioritizes collaboration, creativity, and innovation. In addition to providing superb legal advice, our team focuses on building deep relationships to add value to our investment process.

Position Description The Legal Operations Analyst will design, maintain, and enhance systems and tools that support legal operations, with a strong emphasis on data integrity, analytics and reporting, automation, generative AI, and process optimization. This role supports the legal and regulatory team’s work on trading, transactions, risk and assurance, and compliance matters related to our diverse public and private portfolio. This role bridges the gap between legal and technical domains and is ideal for someone who has worked inside legal workflows, is proficient in Power BI, and actively experiments with AI tools. The analyst will be responsible for developing and managing workflows, legal datasets, and scalable solutions that improve efficiency and support Cascade’s legal and compliance efforts. This role collaborates cross-functionally with legal, technology, and other investment operations teams.

## Key Responsibilities

- Data & Reporting: Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, data models, and reporting that give the legal team and leadership visibility into legal, compliance, and risk and assurance data

- Legal Tech Systems: Oversee systems and processes for various legal data and workflows, including knowledge management, trade support, regulatory compliance, employee trading, vendor contracts, enterprise risk management, assurance, and more. Administer, populate, and report from multiple databases that capture information about our legal entities, investments, trading restrictions, counterparties, workflows, and other matters

- Process Optimization & Automation: Identify operational inefficiencies and propose and implement scalable, tech-enabled solutions; own and evolve workflows

- Enterprise Risk: Maintain dynamic risk assessment frameworks and tools to facilitate annual risk reviews, assurance activities, and reports to leadership

- AI Exploration & Implementation: Research and evaluate emerging AI tools relevant to legal and compliance functions, providing recommendations on adoption and designing and executing implementation plans. Configure and maintain AI capabilities such as review playbooks, custom skills and prompts, and contract intelligence repositories, testing and iterating on outputs with accountability for quality. Stay current on legal tech and AI trends to inform system enhancements and innovation opportunities

- Training & Adoption: Drive adoption of legal technology and AI across the legal and regulatory team through demonstrations, user guides, and feedback loops, and track and report adoption and outcomes

- Project Management: Participate in and manage legal and cross-department projects

## How You'll Work

You will work on systems and projects end-to-end, from scoping through delivery. Much of your work may start out underspecified, as a problem with no established process, incomplete data, and no obvious owner, and you will be expected to figure out the path forward. We are looking for someone who:

- Can take a problem and run with it, applying genuine curiosity and practical judgment to make reasonable calls with sometimes imperfect information, while seeking guidance when required and escalating things that genuinely need escalating

- Stays with hard problems, finding a third approach when the first two fail rather than handing the problem back

- Commits to dates and hits them, and flags slippage early when a date is at risk

- Seeks out direct feedback and acts on it quickly

- Is comfortable working without a detailed roadmap in an environment where priorities shift

## Skills and Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree with strong academic credentials in a relevant field (e.g. pre-law, business analytics, computer science, or similar)

- Three to six years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, compliance operations, or a comparable analytical role, with direct exposure to legal or compliance workflows

- Strong Power BI skills preferred, including data modeling, DAX, and dashboard design, plus strong Excel skills and hands-on familiarity with Smartsheet; experience with SQL and Power Apps is a strong plus

- Experience with legal tools, such as GC AI, Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, or comparable is a strong plus

- Hands-on experience with AI tools along with a demonstrated appetite for experimentation, and a practical understanding of where these tools succeed and where they fail

- Familiarity with data security, information governance, and compliance considerations for AI and legal technology is a plus

- Strong analytical and process improvement skills; ability to work with complex data and systems

- Meticulous attention to detail

- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to present confidently and to lead demonstrations and training sessions for groups

- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with internal and external contacts at all levels, establishing credibility with senior stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

## What We Value

Cascade is deeply committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants seeking employment. All employment decisions are based on a candidate’s or employee’s capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin, citizenship, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Questions regarding accommodation requests due to a disability should be directed to Human Resources.

Employment Requirements Upon hire, you are required to present proof of your eligibility to legally work in the U.S.

## About Cascade Asset Management Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cascade Asset Management Company manages the investment portfolio for Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust, applying a fundamental, long-horizon approach across asset classes and geographies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Kirkland, Washington, USA
- **Founded**: 1994
- **Founders**: Michael Larson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Investment Management, Asset Management
- **Target customers**: The Gates Foundation Trust and the Gates family (single-family office structure). Not a traditional asset manager that accepts outside capital.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Cascade’s mission is to generate superior long-term returns to support and advance the vital work of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation Trust." [cascadeassetmanagement.com](https://cascadeassetmanagement.com/)

## Products & Services
Cascade is a single-family office, not a product-based firm. Its core function is investment management across a diversified portfolio. Key activities include:
- **Asset Allocation & Strategy**: Defining long-term capital allocation across public equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and other assets.
- **Direct Private Equity & Real Asset Investments**: Overseeing direct investments, including agriculture-related holdings.
- **Public Equity & Credit Management**: Managing a global public securities portfolio.
- **Trading & Liquidity Management**: Centralized multi-asset trading desk and treasury management.
- **Real Estate**: Significant real estate investments, including majority ownership of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Privately Held)
- **Key Metric**: Total Assets Under Management is not publicly disclosed, but the underlying Gates Foundation Trust is one of the largest private charitable endowments in the world.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bill Gates (principal), Gates Foundation Trust. Cascade is the majority shareholder of **Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts**.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of approximately 90 employees with a -2.1% yearly decline (-3 people) as of a recent snapshot, indicating a stable or slightly contracting internal team. The firm is highly stable and not in a growth-at-all-costs phase.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Mandate**: A single-family office with an extraordinarily long investment horizon, allowing for illiquid, patient capital deployment not seen in most institutional funds.
- **Access & Network**: Direct access to top-tier private equity funds, real estate deals, and investment opportunities globally, often as a lead or anchor investor.
- **Stability & Intent**: Not beholden to quarterly earnings or external investors. The sole focus is on long-term, inter-generational returns for a single beneficiary.
- **Deep Expertise**: A lean, highly experienced team of investment professionals, including some who have been with the firm for decades.

## Strategic Focus
- **Long-Horizon Investing**: Continuing to apply a fundamental, long-term approach across public and private markets.
- **Portfolio Diversification**: Maintaining a globally diversified portfolio across asset classes and geographies.
- **Stewardship**: Generating returns to support the philanthropic operations of the Gates Foundation.
- **Key Holdings**: Continued oversight of major assets like Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The firm prides itself on a culture of "intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and respect." It seeks "bright minds, diverse perspectives, professional integrity, and dedication." [cascadeassetmanagement.com](https://cascadeassetmanagement.com/life-at-cascade/)
- **Impact**: Directly contribute to an organization that funds global health, development, and education initiatives. The mission is clear: generate returns to support the Gates Foundation's vital work.
- **Work Environment**: Described as one of inclusion, diversity, and equity. The firm has an "Inclusion and Opportunity Council" and is deeply committed to equal employment opportunities.
- **Compensation & Perks**: As a private family office, compensation is likely competitive with top-tier investment firms. Perks include "generous match on charitable giving," service days, and a focus on community involvement.
- **Office/Hybrid Policy**: The single active job posting (Legal Operations Analyst) lists location as **Kirkland, WA** and is labeled as **Hybrid**. [jobs.lever.co/cascademgt](https://jobs.lever.co/cascademgt)
- **Engineering/Technical Teams**: A small area; the workforce is heavily weighted toward Finance (40, 29%). Technical roles make up a smaller portion of the team. The culture is that of an investment firm, not a tech company.

## Sources
1. [cascadeassetmanagement.com](https://cascadeassetmanagement.com/)
2. [cascadeassetmanagement.com - Life at Cascade](https://cascadeassetmanagement.com/life-at-cascade/)
3. [cascadeassetmanagement.com - Meet Our Leadership](https://cascadeassetmanagement.com/meet-our-leadership/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/cascademgt](https://jobs.lever.co/cascademgt)
5. [LinkedIn - Cascade Asset Management Company](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascade-asset-management-company)

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