Legal Staff Information Technology in San Diego, CA

Law Firm

San Diego, CA

Legal Staff Information Technology in San Diego, CA

Legal Staff

Min 4 yrs required

No

Job Title: Innovation Strategy Specialist

Job Responsibilities:

- Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the law firm and its attorneys.
- Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings.
- Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize, and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made.
- Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements.
- Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products, and drive engagement and value delivery.
- Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments.
- Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products.
- Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability, and efficiency.
- Other duties as assigned or required.

Education and Experience Information:

Required:
- After orientation at the law firm, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage, and other firm applications.
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required.
- Ability to travel, as required.
- 4+ years of directly applicable experience (., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation).
- Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology, and practicing lawyers and clients.
- Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau.

Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology, and AI.
- Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies.
- Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human-centered design methodologies).

Competencies:
- Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, project management, and time management skills.
- Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.).
- Strong quantitative and data visualization skills.

Salary Information:

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. The final offer amount will depend on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

The law firm offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. Benefits include a full range of elective benefits such as medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults, and other parental support benefits. Benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short-term medical benefits, 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO), and 10 paid holidays each year. The firm provides generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about these benefits and resources.