Manager, Outside Counsel & Vendor Operations

Manager, Outside Counsel & Vendor Operations Department: Legal Team: CLO Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role**: Uber’s Chief Legal Office (CLO) Operations team is seeking a Manager, Outside Counsel & Vendor Operations to lead the end-to-end operations and optimization of our legal vendor ecosystem. This role will oversee the processes, systems, and strategic initiatives that support our law firm and vendor relationships, with a strong focus on vendor value optimization,billing compliance and operational scalability. They will be responsible for creating and executing programs to maximize cost savings while ensuring high-quality legal support for the entire department. You will partner closely with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Accounting, and Supplier Management teams to deliver seamless customer experiences, while ensuring financial and process discipline. You’ll also play a critical role in developing your team, driving operational excellence, and modernizing our vendor operations function to support the evolving needs of the CLO. ### **What You’ll Do** - **Set Strategy and Drive Execution**: Create and implement Uber’ outside counsel engagement strategy, influencing and aligning with legal leadership and internal stakeholders.Define the priorities for vendor operations, aligning with broader legal operations and organizational goals, but also work in the trenches with the team to execute on established priorities. - **Optimize Value Realization**: Oversee the law firm vendor lifecycle, including selection, negotiation, management and billing. Negotiate global law firm agreements, including outside counsel requirement terms, hourly rates and alternative fee agreements. Create competitive rate intelligence and benchmarking to aid in negotiations and ad hoc rate approval and establish processes to improve turnaround time. - **Modernize and Scale Processes:** Optimize CLO processes across vendor onboarding, contracting, billing and payment compliance workflows for outside counsel and legal vendors. Work with CLO SMEs to develop playbooks, and optimize th