--- title: 'Legal Operations Manager at Intrinsic' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/legal-operations-manager-intrinsic-mountain-view-qbtf713yq12g' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # Legal Operations Manager at Intrinsic - **Company:** Intrinsic - **Location:** Mountain View, CA - **Posted:** 2026-10-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrobotics/jobs/6226341004?gh_jid=6226341004 ## Job description Intrinsic is an AI robotics group at Google aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI, perception and simulation will redefine what’s possible for industrial robotics in the near future – with software and data at the core. Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent, accessible, and usable for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics. ## Role As the Legal Operations Lead for Intrinsic and other Alphabet portfolio projects, including [Tapestry](https://www.tapestryenergy.com/en), you will develop and scale processes that enable legal teams to deliver efficient, consistent, and high-quality services. You will provide shared legal operations support across multiple teams, partnering with legal, finance, business development, and operations stakeholders to streamline contracting workflows, improve legal technology and processes, and establish scalable operational practices. You will oversee contract lifecycle management (CLM), legal technology, outside counsel billing, budgets, and knowledge management. A key focus of this role will be identifying opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve legal operations, reduce manual processes, and drive operational efficiency. You will identify opportunities to standardize processes across teams while accommodating the distinct business needs of each organization. You are an independent thinker who demonstrates initiative, sound judgment, and exceptional attention to detail. Legal Tooling Management - Contracts & Processes: Manage CLM platform and improve commercial contracting processes with playbooks, templates, guidance materials, standardized approval workflows, and self-service resources. - AI & Legal Process Automation:Proactively identify, evaluate, and implement AI-powered tools and automation solutions to streamline legal workflows, accelerate contract management, reduce manual processes, and improve operational efficiency. Partner with legal and cross-functional stakeholders to drive responsible AI adoption and scalable processes. - Technology Integration: Integrate legal technology platforms with existing business systems, leveraging APIs, structured data, and automation to improve workflow connectivity and operational effectiveness. - Cross-Functional Operations. Partner with legal, finance, business development, revenue, marketing, and compliance stakeholders across participating organizations to develop scalable operational processes and support business growth. - Shared Legal Operations: Establish consistent legal intake, contracting, documentation, and prioritization processes across multiple portfolio teams while accommodating organization-specific requirements. Legal Team Management - Vendors & Outside Counsel Management. Serve as a primary point of contact for legal vendors, outside counsel, and technology providers, including onboarding, relationship management, troubleshooting, and performance oversight. - Budget & Finance. Manage legal team financial operations, including invoice collection and payment, budgeting, forecasting, outside counsel billing, and identification of spending trends. - Legal Team Operations. Support legal team onboarding, learning and development programs, team offsites, knowledge management, records management, and other operational initiatives. - Operational Reporting & Process Improvement: Develop reporting mechanisms to track legal requests, contract status, turnaround times, and operational performance. Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to increase efficiency and transparency across supported teams. ## What you should have - BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience. - Minimum of 5 years of experience managing legal operations, preferably within a technology company, startup, or high-growth environment. - Experience with contract lifecycle management systems, commercial contracting workflows, and legal technology platforms. - Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects, improving operational processes, and implementing scalable solutions. - Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to independently manage competing priorities across multiple teams in a fast-paced environment while exercising sound judgment, discretion, and attention to detail. ## What we hope you have - Experience leveraging AI-powered tools, automation platforms, or emerging legal technologies to optimize legal workflows and improve operational efficiency. - Experience with Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management platforms. - Experience with API integration, including structuring requests, parsing JSON and YAML  responses, and using automation scripts or platforms to connect systems. - Experience working independently and collaboratively with attorneys on contract interpretation, negotiation, review and document organization. - Experience supporting legal operations across multiple business units, subsidiaries, or shared-services environments. The base salary for this full-time position is between $157,600 - $214,840 (USD) + 20% bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process. At Intrinsic, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment at Intrinsic is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Intrinsic does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Intrinsic’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at: candidate-support@intrinsic.ai. ## About Intrinsic ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Intrinsic is a software and AI robotics company at Alphabet building an open, AI-integrated platform to make industrial robots radically easier to program, use, and innovate with. - **Entity Type**: Private subsidiary of Alphabet (parent company: Google LLC) - **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed as individual founders; the company emerged from X (Alphabet’s moonshot factory) and acquired several robotics startups (Vicarious, Open Source Robotics Corporation, Akasha Imaging) to form its core team. ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Industrial automation, robotics software, AI-driven perception and motion planning - **Target customers**: Solution builders, system integrators, developers, and businesses in manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial sectors (B2B, enterprise) - **Mission statement**: “To democratize access to robotics” – making intelligent automation practical, affordable, and productive for millions more businesses and developers. ## Products & Services - **Intrinsic Flowstate**: An all-in-one developer environment for building production-grade automation solutions. Provides tools for perception, motion planning, and sensor-based control in a composable, low-code environment. - **Intrinsic OS**: The underlying infrastructure that enables seamless development and deployment across different hardware and software ecosystems, from simulation to real-world robots. - **Intrinsic Capabilities (modular)**: Standalone AI-powered modules for perception (pose estimation via few-shot learning), motion planning (auto-collision avoidance), and real-time sensor-based control using force/torque/distance data. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private Alphabet subsidiary) - **Key Metrics**: - Annual Revenue: Estimated $1.5M (LinkedIn data, may reflect early-stage/pre-revenue status) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic) - Total Funding: $113M (Series A, July 2021) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alphabet (parent company); prior acquisitions include Vicarious (2022), Open Source Robotics Corporation (2022), and Akasha Imaging. - **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount of 223 (+19.3% YoY); operates in 11 countries with labs/offices in Mountain View, Munich, and Singapore; active job postings (31 roles as of mid-2026); 35,637 LinkedIn followers with 59.7% yearly growth. ## Competitive Advantages - **Alphabet backing**: Deep resources, talent, and long-term R&D support. - **Open, interoperable platform**: Focus on reducing “plumbing” work so developers can combine different hardware/software easily. - **AI-first approach**: Integrates state-of-the-art perception, planning, and control models that are trained with minimal data (e.g., few-shot pose estimation). - **Top-tier talent pool**: Core team drawn from acquisitions of Vicarious, Open Robotics, and Akasha, plus hires from Google, Stanford, and leading robotics labs. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform adoption**: Drive adoption of Intrinsic Flowstate among system integrators and OEMs. - **Ecosystem expansion**: Build a community of solution builders and third-party developers around the Intrinsic OS. - **Vertical applications**: Enable end-to-end automation solutions for industries like manufacturing, logistics, and assembly through partner collaborations. - **Continuous AI improvement**: Advance capabilities in grasping, manipulation, and real-time sensor feedback. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Directly contributing to making robotics accessible to millions, with a clear, audacious goal [intrinsic.ai/mission](https://www.intrinsic.ai/mission). - **Competitive benefits**: As an Alphabet company, offers generous healthcare (medical/dental/vision), parental leave, fertility support, 401(k) with match, student loan reimbursement, equity, and annual performance bonus [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers). - **Flexibility and hybrid model**: Hybrid work model balancing in-person collaboration with individual flexibility; paid time off and holidays [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers). - **Global, multidisciplinary team**: Offices in Mountain View (USA), Munich (Germany), and Singapore; employees from diverse backgrounds in engineering, research, product, and design [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers). - **Autonomy and impact**: Culture of individual autonomy from day one, working on seemingly intractable problems with some of the brightest minds in robotics and AI [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers). - **Learning and growth**: Educational reimbursement, donation matching, and time off to volunteer; internship program available [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers). ## Sources 1. [intrinsic.ai](https://www.intrinsic.ai/) – Company homepage, product overview 2. [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers) – Careers, benefits, culture, FAQ 3. [intrinsic.ai/mission](https://www.intrinsic.ai/mission) – Mission statement and why Intrinsic exists 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic) – LinkedIn company profile (headcount, funding, revenue, growth metrics) 5. 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