[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]
About Quora:
Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:
- Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
- Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1, Veo 3.1, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.
About the Team and Role:
We’re looking for an experienced legal operations leader to uplevel the way our small but mighty legal team functions. In this high-impact role, you’ll own the design and rollout of core legal processes, systems, and metrics that improve how we manage risk, support growth, and partner with the business using AI and other innovative technology solutions. You will bring specialized experience in strategizing on and delivering regulatory product solutions using operational best practices. You’ll work closely with legal and cross-functional partners – including product, engineering, security, HR, finance, and others – to streamline how work gets done, support key work streams, implement data-driven decision-making, and ensure compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations. You will lead with influence, build structure through ambiguity, and deliver innovative and scalable, technically advanced solutions. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker who knows how to harness legal operations to enable business growth and risk management.
Responsibilities:
- Translate emerging regulatory trends into actionable business executions across Quora and Poe platforms
- Build and manage scalable regulatory compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions, including developing risk assessments, roadmaps, and tracking timelines
- Effectively communicate regulatory insights through guidelines, FAQs, procedures, tutorials, presentations, and training
- Partner with cross-functional technical partners to design systems and AI tooling that enable proactive, automated compliance solutions
- Help influence cross-functional roadmaps and corporate strategy through deep expertise in regulatory frameworks
- Design, implement and scale a variety of innovative legal policies, processes and playbooks to streamline work flows, enable the business, and enhance the legal team’s productivity and impact leveraging AI
- Build and improve AI based contract automation and related work flows to streamline contract lifecycle management; draft and negotiate commercial contracts under attorney supervision
- Project manage litigation timelines and deliverables
- Manage legal vendors and support outside counsel billing, budgeting, and cost optimization
- Create and maintain mature information management processes for storing and organizing critical legal documents and data
Minimum Requirements:
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 8-10+ years of progressive experience in legal operations, regulatory operations, product/legal policy compliance, program management, consulting, or business operations experience with at least 3 years in legal department operations in dynamic environments
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and scaling legal policies, processes, playbooks, technology workflows, and governance frameworks
- Experience navigating complex regulatory environments
- Strong project management skills and demonstrated experience designing, operationalizing and updating large scale regulatory compliance workstreams
- Strong technology aptitude and experience with: project management tools, database management, and legal technology, including AI focused tools, contract lifecycle management systems, legal research applications, and workflow platforms
- Experience building and scaling contract and procurement processes
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience negotiating, drafting, and advising clients on commercial contracts
- Experience working with global technology companies
- Experience supporting litigation, including filings and submissions
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements applicable to online platforms, marketplaces, social media, and AI products
- Experience program managing SOC2 compliance efforts
At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.
Additional Information:
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis. This role is a backfill for an existing vacancy.
Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
- US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $172,800 - $236,246 USD + equity + benefits.
- Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $226,616 - $247,857 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $211,508 - $231,333 CAD + equity + benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes, but all decisions are made by a member of our team.
To ensure a secure hiring process, all final candidates will undergo identity verification and a comprehensive background check prior to onboarding.
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