Senior Paralegal - Real Estate
On-siteSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own intake, triage, tracking, and completion of leasing legal requests across Real Estate, Site Acquisition, and Site Development. Manage standard lease transactions from drafting through redlines, approvals, signature, filing, and post-execution handoff under attorney-approved guidelines. Prepare and coordinate routine lease documents, including amendments, renewals, assignments, consents, notices, access agreements, and licenses. Build and maintain templates, clause libraries, playbooks, checklists, intake forms, approval workflows, and escalation matrices. Track pipeline status, turnaround times, open issues, renewal deadlines, and obligations to forecast workload and improve legal service levels. Identify recurring leasing bottlenecks and translate legal guidance into practical, scalable workflows for business partners. Report to the Deputy General Counsel–Head of Commercial within Zipline's global autonomous logistics system.
Required Qualifications
- At least 7 years of relevant paralegal experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Substantial experience supporting commercial real-estate leasing transactions and managing transaction documents through execution and post-execution administration
- Experience using lease-administration, contract-lifecycle, document-management, or comparable systems to maintain accurate transaction records and deadlines
- Sound judgment to handle routine matters independently within established guidance and escalate non-standard terms, risks, and exceptions to counsel
- Strong written communication, document organization, and project-management skills across multiple time-sensitive matters
- A proactive, detail-oriented, pragmatic approach to identifying risks, resolving issues, and managing competing priorities
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
- Location - South San Francisco HQ, in person
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