• Architect a legal function built for hypergrowth - where operational excellence is the foundation, rigour protects the ecosystem, and the team moves at the speed of the ecosystem. • Design and own the end-to-end legal operating architecture - intake, triage, matter assignment, tracking, and close-out. • Manage a substantive legal workload spanning contracts, vendor agreements, entity maintenance, filings, and advisory across ecosystem stakeholders. • Build and maintain a searchable precedent library converting the team's accumulated work into reusable institutional knowledge. • Develop a forward-looking hiring strategy built around maximising the output of a small number of high-quality people. • Lead and develop junior counsel - allocating work, managing capacity proactively, and investing in professional growth across the team. • Scope external counsel mandates with precision, establish budget parameters, and track spend against forecast. • Produce clear operational metrics covering open matters, cycle times, external spend, and capacity.