Practice Innovation Manager job vacancy

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About Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a preeminent, full-service law firm with offices around the world and a staff as diverse as the practice areas we support. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to medium and small corporations, financial institutions, and private equity firms. Known for our commitment to excellence, Kirkland strives to provide superior service to our clients as well as our fellow employees. From Information Technology to Human Resources, Paralegal Services to Business Development, Kirkland offers non-attorney professionals challenging careers in a variety of functional areas. Whether starting or growing your career, Kirkland can offer a performance-driven culture filled with bright and innovative teams of co-workers.

Essential Job Functions

As a member of the Practice Innovation team, the Practice Innovation Manager collaborates with practice groups delivering innovative solutions and legal technologies that help attorneys get further, faster in their practice of law.

The Practice Innovation Manager will apply project management, business process improvement and innovation methodologies to deliver attorney-facing process and technology solutions that further enable the practice of law.

The successful candidate must be curious about legal technology products and have extensive experience researching, testing and ultimately delivering innovative solutions.

Essential Functions: (This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented and changed as necessary.)

Partner with IT, Risk and Security to evaluate emerging legal technologies for use at the firm.
Perform project management for innovation projects, including gathering requirements, communicating with attorneys, managing pilots, managing vendors, drive timelines, and facilitate product launches.
Track and help drive adoption of new technologies, monitor and maximize return on investment for innovation and legal technology tools.
Establish credibility with attorneys and leaders as a valuable resource and consultant in legal technology.
Manage vendor relationships and delivery.
Manage the design, build and delivery of solutions for attorneys using low-code platforms and other cutting edge legal technology tools such as contract analysis software, document automation tools, task management tools, and client collaboration tools.
Work with attorneys to learn, document and reengineer existing processes for improved legal services delivery.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education, Work Experience, Skills

A minimum five (5) years' BA/PM experience
1-2 years internal or external consulting experience within technology roles, ideally legal technology.
BA or BS in Business, Computer Science, MIS, Informatics, Data Science, or demonstrate 5+ years relevant work experience in technology, legal or consulting.
Experience implementing process improvement and automation.

Experience with third-party vendor engagement/management.

Experience in change management and/or training with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Desirable but not required:
- Experience with successfully planning, supporting and maintaining legal technology solutions.
- Experience in professional services or consulting, ideally in a law firm or corporate legal department, involving identifying and piloting new technologies.
- Experience with document automation, workflow automation, machine learning, low-code platforms, robotic process automation, and assorted legal operations and technology tools.
- Previous knowledge and experience with data query and programming languages, such as SQL, JS, C#, VBA, R and/or Python.
- Experience supporting lawyers in the use of legal technology.

Technologies/Software

Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Work Environment

This job may operate in a hybrid workplace model. In office work is in a professional office environment and a high-speed internet connection is required to connect to our systems when working in a home office. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and photocopiers.

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ID: #43736128
State: Illinois Chicago 60601 Chicago USA
City: Chicago
Salary: USD TBD TBD
Job type: Permanent
Showed: 2022-07-01
Deadline: 2022-08-29
Category: Et cetera