About the job
We are looking for an experienced Legal Program Manager to join Twitch's close-knit legal team. Reporting to the General Counsel, the Legal Program Manager will support the team to plan, prioritize, and achieve complex deliverables on initiatives with a regulatory or legal touchpoint. You will also play a key role in the Legal Department’s continuing identification and deployment of AI-driven systems in our work.
Responsibilities
- Own the intake, planning, coordination, and tracking of legal compliance initiatives from initial request through completion.
- Serve as the primary architect of AI-powered solutions and be responsible for driving effective adoption of AI-enabled legal solutions within the legal team.
- Serve as connective tissue between Legal and key partners in Product Development and Operations.
- Partner with attorneys, subject matter experts, and cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, clarify requirements, establish timelines, and drive work forward.
- Translate legal and compliance recommendations into user stories, and create clear, actionable workstreams with defined owners, milestones, dependencies, and risk considerations.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings to iterate on solutions, drive alignment, resolve blockers, and ensure timely progress on key initiatives.
- Monitor and report on the status of legal and compliance initiatives, including progress against milestones, outstanding risks, and escalation needs.
- Maintain Jira dashboards to support visibility, accountability, and reporting.
- Develop, refine, and scale frameworks, processes, and documentation that improve how Legal manages programs, compliance recommendations, and cross-functional execution.
Qualifications
Minimum
- 6+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- 6+ years experience in a project or program management role
- 5+ years leading project planning efforts.
- Experience leading technology adoption, change management, or process automation initiatives within a legal, compliance, or operations environment
- Familiarity with Google Docs, Jira, ServiceNow, and Salesforce
- Strong organization, communication and collaboration skills
Preferred
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- 2+ years as a people manager or demonstrated experience mentoring, leading or developing others
- Hands-on experience evaluating, piloting, or deploying AI-powered tools (e.g., contract review platforms, generative AI assistants, legal workflow automation) or familiarity with prompt engineering and AI-assisted workflows