Sr. Manager, Legal Operations

About the company

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

Your tasks

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, and our Legal team supports that work at every turn: commercial deals, global partnerships, financings and IP. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Legal Operations to build the engine behind it. You will own the tools, workflows and data that let a lean legal team operate like a much larger one, so our attorneys can focus on the judgment calls that matter most. This is a builder's role with real room to shape how Legal works as we grow.

What We Need

• Modernize Our Legal Tech Stack: Lead the selection, migration and ongoing improvement of CLM, workflow and AI-enabled tools, automating manual tasks to speed up turnaround times. (ie. ContractPodAI/Leah, Claude, Gemini, Glean)
• Run the Contract Engine: Drive process review and administration of commercial agreements, with full visibility into renewals, expirations and key milestones.
• Measure What Matters: Develop and track KPIs for legal efficiency, and refine Legal’s processes as the team scales.
• NDA’s: Ability to negotiate, redline, and close NDA’s.
• Be Diligence Ready: Own our document repository and pull together materials for litigation, M&A and investor requests on short notice.

Requirements

• Legal Ops Builder: 8+ years in legal operations and contract management, with a track record of legal process implementation, including moving teams onto (and off of) legal tools and workflow platforms while iterating.
• Contracts Pro: Hands-on experience with commercial agreements of all types, including NDAs, MSAs and amendments, plus the templates and playbooks that keep them consistent.
• Data-Driven Operator: Comfortable building KPIs, and overseeing legal vendors and outside counsel bills.
• Document Expert: Seasoned in legal holds, collection and production of documents and in gathering and cataloging materials for litigation, M&A and investor diligence.
• Ways to stand out: Experience with AI-enabled legal tools with a background in semiconductor.

What we offer

What You Will Learn

• How to build and scale legal operations within a high-growth semiconductor and AI technology company.
• How to operate in a fast-scaling tech company, which turns legal operations into a competitive advantage.
• Hands-on experience shaping AI-enabled legal workflows at a company that builds AI infrastructure.
• How legal teams partner with Finance, Procurement, Sales, Security, IT, People, Engineering, and Operations across a global organization.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Other

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA or Toronto, ON.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2). These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S. As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency. If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded.