Legal Program Manager

Superhuman Superhuman · Consumer · Hub - San Francisco · G&A

The Legal Program Manager will drive operational excellence and strategic execution across Superhuman's Legal function, including Product, Privacy, Commercial, Litigation & Employment, and Corporate & Compliance. This role translates priorities into structured programs, improves efficiency through tools and automation, and serves as a liaison between Legal and other departments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive cross-functional legal initiatives from scoping through execution, ensuring alignment, accountability, and executive visibility.
  2. Operationalize Legal’s ways of working — building scalable intake, prioritization, governance, reporting, and knowledge-management frameworks.
  3. Improve efficiency and impact by implementing tools, automation, metrics, and program governance across the legal portfolio.
  4. Serve as connective tissue between Legal and key partners (Product, Engineering, Sales, HR, Finance, Security), anticipating friction and accelerating decision-making.
  5. Enable leadership clarity through structured reporting, risk tracking, and clear articulation of trade-offs and progress.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of program or project management experience in legal, compliance, or highly regulated environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in fast-moving, ambiguous settings.
  • Strong cross-functional influence skills and executive-level communication capability.
  • Experience designing scalable legal processes (intake, triage, playbooks, dashboards, governance frameworks).
  • Working familiarity with legal subject areas such as product counseling, privacy, commercial contracting, litigation management, employment, and corporate compliance.
  • Collaborative, low-ego leader who operates independently and drives measurable results.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly regulated environments
  • complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
  • fast-moving, ambiguous settings
  • scalable legal processes
  • product counseling, privacy, commercial contracting, litigation management, employment, and corporate compliance