Paralegal / Legal Assistant
Somewhere
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Paralegal & Operations Associate
Employment Type:Full time, independent contractor
Work Model:Remote
Work Hours:US East Coast (EST) Business Hours Alignment
Role Summary
We are seeking an agile, highly organized, and tech-forwardAI-Forward Corporate Paralegal & Operations Associateto lead our corporate governance, multi-entity compliance, and document management infrastructure.
This role isnotfor someone who needs a highly structured, corporate ladder environment. We are scaling rapidly and need a proactive builder who loves stepping into unstructured, fast-paced environments, creating order from chaos, and establishing bulletproof internal legal operations.
The ideal candidate possesses strong foundational paralegal skills but stands out by beinghighly AI-literate (expert proficiency with Claude or similar LLMs), using advanced prompting to radically accelerate contract reviews, documentation organization, and meeting workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Governance & Multi-Entity Management
* Entity Compliance:Own the end-to-end compliance lifecycles for multiple corporate entities across various jurisdictions (filings, annual renewals, local requirements).
Entity Compliance:Own the end-to-end compliance lifecycles for multiple corporate entities across various jurisdictions (filings, annual renewals, local requirements).
* Board & Shareholder Secretarial Support:Coordinate board and shareholder meetings, build comprehensive agendas, track quorum, and draft precise corporate minutes.
Board & Shareholder Secretarial Support:Coordinate board and shareholder meetings, build comprehensive agendas, track quorum, and draft precise corporate minutes.
* Corporate Records:Maintain and audit the company’s structural records, including capitalization tables, operating agreements, stock certificates, and organizational charts.
Corporate Records:Maintain and audit the company’s structural records, including capitalization tables, operating agreements, stock certificates, and organizational charts.
Contract Operations & Documentation Management
* AI-Assisted Contract Review:Execute initial legal reviews, syntax auditing, and data extraction on inbound contracts, NDAs, vendor agreements, and master service agreements using AI tools.
AI-Assisted Contract Review:Execute initial legal reviews, syntax auditing, and data extraction on inbound contracts, NDAs, vendor agreements, and master service agreements using AI tools.
* Document Architecture:Build, catalog, and strictly maintain a unified, highly searchable digital data room and contract management system (CMS).
Document Architecture:Build, catalog, and strictly maintain a unified, highly searchable digital data room and contract management system (CMS).
* Workflow Automation:Utilize modern AI tools (specifically Claude) to summarize dense legal agreements, generate template first drafts, draft board resolutions, and build actionable compliance checklists.
Workflow Automation:Utilize modern AI tools (specifically Claude) to summarize dense legal agreements, generate template first drafts, draft board resolutions, and build actionable compliance checklists.
Required Skills & Qualifications
* Experience:3–5+ years of experience working as a corporate paralegal, legal operations associate, or corporate secretary—ideally in a fast-growing startup, law firm, or multi-entity ecosystem.
Experience:3–5+ years of experience working as a corporate paralegal, legal operations associate, or corporate secretary—ideally in a fast-growing startup, law firm, or multi-entity ecosystem.
* AI & Tech Literacy:Advanced, daily operational proficiency with AI models (specifically Claude) for workflow acceleration. You should know how to prompt an LLM to accurately ingest, analyze, and format legal data without hallucinating details.
AI & Tech Literacy:Advanced, daily operational proficiency with AI models (specifically Claude) for workflow acceleration. You should know how to prompt an LLM to accurately ingest, analyze, and format legal data without hallucinating details.
* Governance Foundations:Direct, hands-on experience organizing board/shareholder meetings and writing formal corporate minutes.
Governance Foundations:Direct, hands-on experience organizing board/shareholder meetings and writing formal corporate minutes.
* The "Unstructured" Mindset:A proven history of entering early-stage, fast-moving environments and independently building processes where none previously existed.
The "Unstructured" Mindset:A proven history of entering early-stage, fast-moving environments and independently building processes where none previously existed.
* Meticulous Execution:Zero-defect attention to detail regarding legal naming conventions, entity distinctions, execution dates, and compliance deadlines.
Meticulous Execution:Zero-defect attention to detail regarding legal naming conventions, entity distinctions, execution dates, and compliance deadlines.
* Logistics:Exceptional writte
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Somewhere
Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 685 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →