Localized Template [US]
$215,000–$254,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Own the lifecycle of Legora's SaaS and AI portfolio, from intake to decommissioning, by maintaining a single source of truth for licenses, entitlements, and dependencies. Hunt down shadow IT and AI, enforce vendor terms and data retention clauses, and build agentic workflows to automate repetitive governance tasks. Manage renewals, forecast volatile AI spend, and partner with FP&A and Security to negotiate commercial terms and execute cost-avoidance targets. Report utilization, savings, and compliance metrics to leadership while ensuring all applications meet SOC 2 evidence and security posture requirements. Based in New York on a hybrid schedule, you will lead this function as an engineering-level partner to the Head of IT.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in software/SaaS asset management, IT vendor management, business systems, IT/enterprise applications, or IT procurement, with clear ownership of license and vendor work
- Cost optimization: a track record of license rightsizing, renewal negotiation, tool consolidation, and measurable savings
- Commercial fluency: comfortable owning negotiations and reading licensing models, including consumption/usage-based and AI pricing, true-ups, and contract terms
- Portfolio tooling: has run SaaS discovery, utilization, and license management at scale (commercial platform, pipelines they built, or both), with grounded opinions on when to buy and when to build
- Automation & integration: builds with LLM/agent workflows, iPaaS, and scripts against SaaS APIs (e.g., Python), and uses AI tools daily in their own work
- Identity governance: SSO/SAML/OIDC and SCIM (Okta or Entra) and how access drives license consumption
- AI-era judgment: has evaluated and governed AI tools and can read AI-vendor data terms
- Analytical & cross-functional: builds utilization and forecast models, and partners credibly with Finance, Procurement, Security, and tool owners
- Location: based in or able to work from New York on a hybrid schedule
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at a legal, financial, or otherwise regulated / high-trust company
- Has stood up a FinOps practice; exposure to procurement and finance systems (Zip, Coupa, NetSuite, Workday/Adaptive)
- Built process and tooling from scratch at a fast-scaling company
- Certifications: ITIL, FinOps Certified Practitioner, or ServiceNow CIS-SAM
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