2025-08-28
Discovery Education,Inc.
Other
/yr
employee
contract
Charlotte
North Carolina
28209
United States
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Req Number: Req# 290
Date Posted: Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2025 | Expires Monday, September 15, 2025
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Paralegal – Contracts & Legal Operations to support contract review, legal workflows, and systems development across Discovery Education’s U.S. Legal team. This role provides critical support to our U.S. commercial contract function and legal department operations, with a unique blend of contract execution, legal process management, and cross-functional legal support. Reporting to the General Counsel, this role will work closely with the U.S. Commercial Contracting team as well as partnering across the Legal Team and business to improve how we deliver legal services.
This is a high-visibility, hands-on role where you’ll collaborate with internal teams including Sales, Product, Operations, Information Technology, and Privacy. You will be responsible for reviewing a wide range of contracts; developing legal systems and documentation; and helping implement tools and processes that enable the Legal team to work more effectively and efficiently.
In This Role You Will:
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This role is designed to be hybrid. As a legal function-facing role, this position requires reasonable proximity to Charlotte, NC. Only candidates local to Charlotte will be reviewed for consideration. You can expect to work primarily in a typical office setting, with in-office presence expected on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in line with company policy.
Serving more than 4.5 million educators and 45 million students, available in approximately half of U.S. classrooms and primary schools in the UK, and more than 140 countries around the globe; we are on a journey to transform teaching and learning though innovative partnerships with school districts, states, ministries of education, and other like-minded organizations.
We have built an award-winning and highly reputable organization because of talented and driven people who work together to accelerate student achievement by tapping into students' natural curiosity and desire to learn by capturing their minds and imagination through the fascination of Discovery.
Why Join Discovery Education?
Discovery Education believes empowering each team member is vital to cultivating high performing, highly engaged teams. Being a part of our team means we partner together to achieve mutual goals. To this end, Discovery Education offers a robust and comprehensive insurance package. You can find a complete listing on our Career Page.
Along with traditional insurance offerings, our inclusive offerings center around:
Team Member Wellness – When you feel great, you do great work!
This opportunity is perfect for people interested in joining a high-performing, collaborative team, who enjoy a dynamic industry, and are excited about high-impact, project-based work.
Inspired? We would love the opportunity to review your candidacy! Select the blue “Apply Now” button at the bottom left of the screen to begin your application.
Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the communities we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, protected veteran status or disabled status, or genetic information.
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