Innovation & Legal Tech Manager - Lex Mundi : Job Details

Innovation and Legal Tech – Manager

About Lex Mundi

Lex Mundi is the world's leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 100+ countries. Lex Mundi member firms offer clients preferred access to more than 21,000 lawyers worldwide – a global resource of unmatched breadth and depth. Each member firm is selected because of its leadership in – and continued commitment to – its local market. The Lex Mundi principle is one independent firm for each jurisdiction. Firms must maintain their level of excellence to retain membership within Lex Mundi.

Job Location: You must reside in Houston, Texas. We work in our office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with the rest of the week being remote.

Travel: There may be 1-2 trips annually to locations in North America / Europe / Middle East (each trip 2-5 days in duration).

Overview

The Innovation and Legal Tech team at Lex Mundi needs a special individual who can significantly contribute to helping Lex Mundi, and our member firms, increase our use of practical technologies to enhance our competitiveness and further our digital strategy. This role will be a good fit for someone with a passion for, and experience in, helping professional service firms leverage new digital technologies. We are working to be data-driven, so comfort with numbers is key. Learning is a given, and dealing with ambiguity and complexity is a must. We have fun and make a difference around the world.

Key Accountabilities

• Utilize our business systems and data to deliver impactful metrics and other analytics; analyze data and prepare reports that illustrate the progress of plans against business results; respond to requests for ad hoc analysis by leveraging data and information to independently create requested metrics and reports
• Utilize and enhance the use of Microsoft 365 suite of applications
• Prepare guides and training materials on the use of business systems
• Collaborate with and provide support to our Global Markets team on the use of our Equisphere offering
• Connect member firms to Lex Mundi's resources and/or to other member firms who have experience with the software/vendor related to their interest(s)
• Organize calls/meetings on topics or issues so member firms can share and learn about legal technologies
• Assist scope and prioritize team activities based on strategic plan and user impact by translating users' needs/problems to be solved by new approaches, configurations of existing software, or proposing new approaches/software

Reporting

• Direct to Senior Manager, Innovation and Legal Tech
• Priorities/guidance by Director, Innovation and Legal Tech

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience working in a professional services environment – a law firm or legal department is ideal
• Bachelor's degree in technology, business, or law
• Comfortable with the use of technology, with strong Microsoft 365 experience
• Good presentation and public speaking skills
• Creative problem solver with an innovative mindset
• Comfortable being part of a distributed team with experience working multi-jurisdictionally / globally
• Self-starter capable of handling a significant amount of complexity and ambiguity
• Organized and structured in approach, with strong project management skills.
• Able to build trusting relationships
• Strong verbal, written, and collaboration skills