Paralegal & Legal Operations Manager
Location US Remote

Blaize (Nasdaq: BZAI) builds a programmable AI platform for inference in real-world environments. At its core, the Blaize Graph Streaming Processor (GSP) is a purpose-built, energy-efficient architecture for real-world AI inference, combined with GPU in a hybrid AI infrastructure that runs across the edge, cloud, and datacenter. Our platform powers computer vision, multimodal AI, and sensor-driven applications across smart cities, industrial automation, telecommunications, retail, logistics, healthcare, automotive, and defense.

Blaize is expanding from edge AI hardware into a full platform that combines its hardware systems with Blaize AI Services, the software and services layer that delivers deployable AI solutions for enterprises, governments, and cloud service providers worldwide. By combining differentiated computing architecture with scalable AI Services, we help organizations deploy intelligence where decisions matter most.

To learn more, visit www.blaize.com or follow us on LinkedIn at @blaizeinc.

Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly organized Paralegal & Legal Operations Manager to support the Legal team across corporate, commercial, compliance, and operational matters. This role will partner closely with internal stakeholders to manage legal processes and operations, including contracts administration, NDA review and negotiation, corporate governance support, compliance coordination, and legal operations activities.

The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver, detail-oriented, business-minded, and capable of operating independently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining strong legal and operational discipline.

Key Responsibilities

Conduct intake, review, negotiate, organize, and administer all NDAs and potentially other template-based agreements, with assistance from attorneys where needed.
Maintain contract lifecycle management (CLM) database and ensure proper documentation, tracking, and compliance processes.
Create and manage contract execution workflows and manage legal intake requests.
Partner cross-functionally with Finance, HR, Procurement, Sales, and Operations to support legal processes and business initiatives.
Leverage AI tools and technology to streamline contract review, improve document processing, and enhance legal operations efficiency and reporting.

Assist with corporate governance activities, including Board of Directors and Committee materials and legal entity management activities.
Support compliance initiatives, policy tracking, and audit-related requests
Help maintain organized, scalable, and audit-ready legal processes and records

Track legal obligations, renewals, and critical deadlines
Support dispute management, litigation coordination, legal holds, and document collection as needed
Assist with legal research and preparation of summaries, reports, and presentations
Maintain confidentiality and ensure proper handling of sensitive information

Identify opportunities to improve legal workflows, document management, and operational efficiency
Help implement scalable legal operations processes and best practices
Support reporting, metrics, and KPI tracking for legal operations activities

Qualifications

Blaize is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do 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, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity, and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honour requests for preferred pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state, and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination and equal opportunity.