Senior Paralegal

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

About the role:

CHANEL is seeking a Senior Paralegal to join our Legal team in New York. This role plays a critical part in supporting a broad range of corporate legal functions, including litigation, employment, commercial matters, and compliance. You will serve as a trusted partner to attorneys and cross-functional stakeholders, driving organization, efficiency, and operational excellence across legal processes. The ideal candidate brings strong legal acumen, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to manage complex matters in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while embracing innovative tools, including artificial intelligence. 

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Support the Legal team across litigation, employment, regulatory, and commercial matters, ensuring seamless coordination and execution. Drive efficient case management, including tracking workflows, timelines, and key deliverables across multiple matters. Partner with outside counsel to support legal team, including organizing files, gathering documents and coordinating interviews. Strengthen risk mitigation efforts by supporting investigations, monitoring regulations, and legal monitoring processes. Build and maintain a centralized, user-friendly database for tracking U.S. legal and regulatory developments  Ensure proper handling of litigation holds, document preservation, and records management protocols.  Track budget and legal spend. 

You are energized by:

Working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment with legal and business stakeholders. Managing complex workflows and multiple priorities with precision and attention to detail. Taking ownership of matters from initiation through resolution and delivering high-quality results. Navigating ambiguity and proactively identifying risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement. Leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence, to perform efficiently. 

What you will bring to the team:

7+ years of paralegal experience in a dynamic environment with exposure to multiple areas of law. Strong understanding of legal workflows and case management. Experience supporting discovery, litigation holds, and investigations. Ability to manage competing priorities independently while maintaining high-quality work. Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated judgment and discretion. Experience with legal and business systems such as iManage, Coupa, and Microsoft tools, as well as with tracking legislation, budgeting/spend and maintaining legal databases. Agility in adopting AI-enabled tools. 

Position Logistics:

Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the NYC office. 

*Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate.

Compensation:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $87,500 through $120,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks. 

Benefits and Perks:

Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure) and a Wellbeing fund Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days 401K and other incentives Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance ProgramLife insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking 

Additional Information:

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:

Diversity and Inclusion:

At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy and dignity for all.  We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients. We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support. 

Chanel Community:

CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities. Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations. 

Sustainability:

CHANEL Mission 1.5° is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives. 

Arts and Culture:

We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent.  US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.

Fondation Chanel:

Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL’s mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny.  Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.    For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here   

Career and Leadership Development:

We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills. 

*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.