Paralegal-Synneca
Summary: The Paralegal at Synneca is a key role responsible for supporting the legal and contract management needs of Systics and Syssero, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and facilitating efficient business operations. This position plays a critical role in contract review, redlining, legal documentation management, and policy compliance, working closely with leadership, external counsel, and internal stakeholders.
This role is responsible for developing and executing strategies that streamline contract negotiations, maintain legal compliance, and protect the company’s interests while supporting business growth. The Paralegal will focus on:
- Contract Management & Legal Review – Reviewing, redlining, and managing contracts, NDAs, MSAs, and other legal agreements to align with business objectives.
- Compliance & Risk Mitigation – Identifying legal risks, ensuring contract compliance, and supporting the development of internal legal policies and best practices.
- Operational & Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partnering with leadership, finance, HR, and operations teams to ensure legal processes align with Synneca’s business strategy.
Collaboration is key, as this role works cross-functionally with teams across Synneca, Syssero, and Systics to integrate legal support into operational excellence.
The Paralegal will embody Synneca’s core values of Protection, Diversity, Adaptability, Integrity, and Empowerment, ensuring that all legal processes contribute to sustainable growth and long-term success.
Essential Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Contract Management & Redlining
- Review, draft, and redline NDAs, MSAs, vendor agreements, and client contracts to ensure alignment with business and legal requirements.
- Coordinate contract execution, ensuring timely approvals and compliance with company policies.
- Maintain a centralized contract database to track expiration dates, renewal deadlines, and obligations
Compliance & Risk Mitigation
- Identify potential legal risks in contracts, policies, and business agreements, escalating issues as needed.
- Ensure that all agreements comply with regulatory and industry standards, mitigating potential liabilities.
- Support corporate governance efforts, assisting in policy development and compliance tracking.
Internal Projects and Communication
- Meet weekly and monthly team goals, including regular check-ins with department leads across Syssero, Synneca, and Systics.
- Maintain and organize legal documents, filings, and templates, ensuring accuracy and accessibility.
- Assist in cleaning/refining data and implementing new or current systems to improve efficiency across HR, Finance, IT operations and Services.
- Support company-wide legal initiatives, including data privacy, employment law compliance, and corporate policies.
- Assist with due diligence processes for new partnerships, acquisitions, or business expansions.
- Support the company with additional projects related to business operations, process improvements, and organizational development.
- Develop training materials and resources for leadership and employees to improve onboarding, internal systems, and company-wide operational processes.
- Act as a mentor to department leaders, providing guidance on optimizing workflows, improving team effectiveness, and fostering a strong workplace culture.
- Report key operational and people metrics for the Company Scorecard and Monthly Board Meetings, ensuring leadership has actionable insights.
- Take full ownership of core business processes, including updating, managing, and educating teams on best practices across all legal and compliance functions.
Cross- Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure smooth integration of cross-functional solutions and enhance business processes.
- Ensure seamless coordination when new requests or business needs arise, aligned with internal goals to optimize partner engagement.
- Provide direction and enforce compliance across all functional areas), ensuring alignment with Synneca’s standards and internal policies.
- Provide regular feedback to cross-functional leaders, ensuring accountability for departmental activities and aligning them with company-wide business goals and policies.
- Recognize employee contributions and provide actionable feedback to continuously improve performance, aligning individual goals with overall business strategy.
Legal Operations & Documentation Management
- Maintain and organize legal documents, filings, and templates, ensuring accuracy and accessibility.
- Support company-wide legal initiatives, including data privacy, employment law compliance, and corporate policies.
- Assist with due diligence processes for new partnerships, acquisitions, or business expansions.
- Ensure accurate and accessible legal documents, filings, and templates by maintaining and organizing them.
- Assist in due diligence for business expansions, new partnerships, and acquisitions.
- Support company-wide legal initiatives, including corporate policies, employment law compliance, and data privacy.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in contract management, legal compliance, or corporate governance, preferably within the technology or consulting industries.
- In-depth knowledge of contract law, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation, with experience in reviewing, redlining, and negotiating NDAs, MSAs, vendor agreements, and client contracts.
- Proven ability to collaborate across business functions, working with internal stakeholders (Finance, HR, IT, and Operations) and external counsel to ensure legal processes align with business goals.
- Strong track record in managing complex legal projects, including due diligence for partnerships, corporate policy development, and compliance tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to implement legal strategies that enhance risk management, operational efficiency, and contract lifecycle management in a fast-paced business environment.
Education and experience
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies, Business, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in contract management, legal compliance, corporate governance, or a related legal function, preferably within a technology, consulting, or professional services environment.
- Proven track record of managing legal processes, including contract review and redlining, regulatory compliance, and due diligence for business agreements.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, HR, IT, and Operations to ensure contracts, policies, and compliance efforts align with business objectives.
Preferred:
- Paralegal certification or formal legal training.
- 5+ years of experience in corporate law, risk mitigation, or compliance roles, supporting contract lifecycle management and internal governance policies.
- Experience with legal technology platforms, contract management systems, or compliance tracking tools to improve efficiency and ensure legal document accuracy.
- Strong knowledge of data privacy laws, employment law compliance, and corporate policy development in a fast-paced business environment.
What we bring to the table:
Besides all the awesome benefits and perks that we offer – we also take pride in being an employee-owned business with a unique culture that reflects our commitment to transparency and true work-life balance. We have created an environment where employees can thrive both professionally and personally because we also care about you and your families. Embracing diversity and inclusivity, we prioritize a supportive workplace where everyone’s contributions are valued and celebrated.
- Competitive Base Salary + other commission & bonus
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k match
- Competitive pay
- Profit sharing program (PSP)
- Flexible work time
- Unlimited PTO and 12 floating holidays
- 100% remote
- Annual fixed stipend to purchase what you need for your remote set up
- $75 per pay period for cell and internet allowance
- Learning and development plan
Affirmative Action/EEO statement:
Synneca is an equal opportunity employer. At Synneca, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them, support them, and thrive on having them for the benefit of our employees, our services, and our community. Employment at Synneca is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Synneca does 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 (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
It is Synneca’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state, and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. The Company’s EEO policy, as well as its affirmative action obligations, includes the full & complete support of the Company, including its Chief Empowerment Officer. Because it’s just the right thing to do. We hope you think so, too.
Other duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.