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title: 'Senior Legal Operations Manager at 9fin'
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# Senior Legal Operations Manager at 9fin

- **Company:** 9fin
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9fin/8f9cdb50-adc7-4079-9ba6-923c4e381b99

## Job description

## About 9fin

9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.

The opportunity We're hiring our first dedicated legal operations team member to sit at the heart of 9fin's growing Legal Affairs function. This is a broad, hands-on role and a rare opportunity to shape how a scale-up in-house legal team runs from the inside out. You'll own the operational engine of the team: our contract lifecycle platform (Ironclad, which is deeply embedded across sales, procurement and RevOps), our commercial playbook (and developing non-commercial playbooks), our tech stack (including AI implementation), our front-door (right now, ticketing is done in Linear), our knowledge management (currently spread across multiple systems), our reporting and KPIs, and the tracking and governance around outside counsel spend. You'll also be a project manager and a hands-on partner to the General Counsel. That includes co-drafting monthly and quarterly business reviews, leading and coordinating cross-functional initiatives (for example M&A diligence coordination, trademark portfolio work, or regulatory readiness workstreams), and holding a high bar for organisation so nothing on a small, fast-moving team drops. You'll report to the General Counsel and work alongside legal colleagues in London and New York. This is a London-based role and we typically expect the team to be in the office three days a week.

## What you’ll work on

Below is the shape of the role, laid out as prioritised by Now, Next and Later so you can see the broad strokes of the path ahead - but by no means is this set in stone. Priorities will move as we learn what's most useful in practice and you’ll have a big hand in shaping this further. Now

- Tune legal intake - help us build out the “front door” for legal requests across the business.
- Partner with Sales, Finance, InfoSec and Procurement to streamline deal-desk and approval processes
- Support on knowledge management and internal policy administration. Consolidate knowledge, templates, and other information in a clean accessible structure.
- Build our external legal spend tracker from scratch. Categorise spend, log invoices and quotes, match to matter, and produce a monthly view for the General Counsel.
- Own KPI reporting improvements against our Ironclad-fed dashboards. Expand coverage into intake, spend, cycle times, and other operational metrics.
- Own operational and reporting support across the Legal function, including responses to internal stakeholders including Finance, RevOps, and the People team.

Next

- Get inside and own our tech stack and know it end-to-end - Ironclad, Linear, Google Workspace, Notion, and the AI tools we've adopted or are evaluating.
- Build, maintain and roll out templates, playbooks and self-serve legal resources so the business can move quickly.
- Own Ironclad workflow hygiene and adoption end-to-end. Work with the team to clean up metadata and archiving, tighten approvals and signatory workflows, and work with commercial counsel to roll out training across sales, procurement, RevOps and other frequent users.
- Bring structure and visibility across the team. Keep track of open projects, drive follow-through, and make sure balls do not drop across a small team with a lot of surface area.
- Maintain our sales contract playbook. Keep it current, propose updates as commercial patterns and RevOps feedback surface them, and make sure the team is actually using it.

Later

- Partner with the General Counsel to produce meaningful Exec-level reporting.
- Assist with management of large legal projects on GC instruction. Recent examples include M&A diligence coordination, and trademark portfolio work.
- Support company secretarial administration.

## About you

We're looking for a highly organised operator who is energised by building order out of scale-up complexity. You do not need to be a lawyer, but you do need to have run legal operations end-to-end before. The essentials come first below, followed by preferred experience and the traits we care about most.

- Highly organised with a systems mindset: You keep the plates spinning and notice when one wobbles. You see the workflow behind the task and design for repeatability.
- Commercial, action-biased, comfortable with ambiguity: You understand what the business needs from legal, get things over the line without waiting to be asked twice, and you're comfortable being the first hire writing the map as you go.
- Ironclad or equivalent CLM: Hands-on experience with Ironclad or a directly comparable enterprise CLM (for example Juro, LinkSquares, Icertis, Agiloft, Leah). We are deeply embedded in Ironclad and you will own it.
- Legal operations track record: At least five years' experience running legal operations, contracts operations or a closely adjacent function (compliance operations, legal project management, or legal chief-of-staff), ideally in a scale-up or in-house legal team that is fast paced and where you can demonstrate ownership.
- End-to-end project delivery: You have owned legal or cross-functional projects on your own steam, including timelines, risks, stakeholders and outcomes.
- Reporting and data fluency: You can build clean dashboards, work with a KPI framework, and translate metrics into a story someone can act on.
- Outside counsel spend or panel exposure: Experience setting up spend tracking, panel management or legal project management would be useful, but we're also open to someone with the capability and appetite to build this from scratch.
- Builder mentality: Experience as a team’s first or only legal-ops hire, or a member of a small team in the early stage of the build-out of a legal ops function, would be a strong advantage.

## Benefits

We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance

- Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)
- Equity
- Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
- Group Life Assurance
- Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Time off

- 25 holiday days per year
- Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
- Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available

Training & Culture

- Professional learning and development budget
- AI experimentation budget of £800 (UK) per employee to trial AI tools
- Quarterly team socials
- Summer and Winter company social events

9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.

## About 9fin

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 9fin is the AI-native intelligence platform that provides data, analytics, news, and AI-powered workflows for global debt capital markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Steven Hunter (CEO) and Hussam El-Sheikh (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Debt Capital Markets, AI/Data Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B, specifically investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, private credit funds, and advisory firms.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To become the number one platform for debt markets globally, redefining how debt markets are understood and acted on by credit teams.

## Products & Services
- **9fin Platform**: A unified platform combining breaking news from expert reporters, structured data and analytics, and AI-powered workflows. It covers leveraged finance, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, ABF, and investment grade across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.
- **9fin AI (AI Chat & Research Grid)**: Launched in June 2026, these tools help credit professionals move from question to conviction faster. AI Chat provides cited answers to complex credit questions in seconds. Research Grid enables users to build structured company comparisons in minutes using pre-defined or custom questions. Every output is grounded in proprietary debt market data and linked to source material. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.3 billion (as of Series C fundraise in March 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised to date: $253.95M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not all investors are publicly listed, but the company has raised over $250M across Series A, B, and C rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - In June 2026, launched two major AI tools (AI Chat and Research Grid) [prnewswire.co.uk](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html)
    - Powers credit teams at 300+ leading global institutions [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about)
    - Employs 350+ people globally [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about)
    - Scaled globally with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Belfast [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native foundation**: Built from the ground up with a decade of proprietary debt market data powering its AI, creating a strong moat. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about)
- **Deep domain expertise**: Co-founders have backgrounds in investment banking (J.P. Morgan) and engineering (Deutsche Bank), and the platform is calibrated by in-house credit, distressed, and legal analysts with decades of experience. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/about)
- **Comprehensive data**: Unifies public, private, and distressed credit data in a single connected view, replacing multiple legacy tools. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/)
- **Trusted by the market**: Used by 80% of trading desks among top-tier institutions. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities and direction for growth**: Scaling globally and deepening the AI platform. The company is building "credit-specific AI agents that proactively monitor, draft and alert," moving from a source of intelligence to the platform where credit professionals get work done. [prnewswire.co.uk](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Emphasizes "true flexibility," "a culture of care," and the opportunity to "build at the edge" with the latest AI tools. The company values ambition and offers real opportunities to make an impact. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers)
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Offers a flexible work model: "Work from home, or from one of our great offices around the world. We encourage time with your team, while giving you the flexibility when you need it." [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers)
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
    - Enhanced parental leave, flexible hours, and sabbaticals. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers)
    - Engineers, product, and AI teams own the full experience, from data architecture to interface, working closely with customers. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers)
    - High growth trajectory with global scaling, providing real career advancement opportunities. [9fin.com](https://www.9fin.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [9fin Careers Page](https://www.9fin.com/careers)
2. [9fin About Page](https://www.9fin.com/about)
3. [9fin Homepage](https://www.9fin.com/)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/9fin)
5. [PRNewswire - 9fin Launches Next Generation AI Tools](https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/9fin-launches-next-generation-of-ai-tools-for-debt-capital-markets-302794326.html)
6. [9fin Jobs Portal (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9fin)

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