McDermott Will & Emery

Communications

• Develop and execute a strategic plan for the firm’s awards and recognition program, including objectives, priorities, processes, and expected outcomes
• Manage an annual calendar of award and recognition opportunities and track progress using an established CRM system
• Partner with Marketing Communications, Business Development, and other business professional teams to identify and draft compelling submissions that align with the firm’s brand and business priorities
• Collaborate with the Client Experience team to identify award and recognition opportunities that support key client relationships
• Track, analyze, and report on program progress, outcomes, and metrics to support continuous improvement and demonstrate impact
• Support the preparation and submission of secondary directory submissions, including Global Review Guides

Firmwide Communications Manager – Awards

QA Engineer

• Own the full QA lifecycle for AI-powered solutions
• Partner with Analysts to generate and evaluate test cases using AI-assisted tools
• Work with the engineering team to define and integrate automated test suites into the Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline
• Define system-level test strategies in collaboration with the Director of QA
• Coordinate with the dedicated security team for solution-specific security test cases
• Champion a quality culture across the delivery team

AI Solutions QA Analyst

DevOps Engineer

• Partner with development teams to build, secure, and govern the Firm's developer environment including AI-assisted coding platforms
• Define and implement security controls and guardrails for agentic coding tools
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines—automated scanning, dependency analysis, secrets detection, and policy enforcement
• Advise developers on secure coding practices, with particular attention to AI-generated code
• Build custom security tools, scripts, and automation for the Information Security team
• Develop dashboards, reports, and analytical workflows for security monitoring and risk assessment
• Leverage AI tools to enhance security operations, including log analysis, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

General Counsel

• Manage the full lifecycle of lateral partner and counsel recruiting processes across multiple offices, departments, and administrative teams
• Collaborate with the Director and recruiting team to maintain and strengthen relationships with legal search firms and external recruiting contacts
• Oversee all aspects of candidate interviews
• Support recruiting-related due diligence processes
• Identify opportunities to enhance recruiting operations, reporting, workflows, and processes, including leveraging technology, data analytics, and emerging AI tools
• Manage special projects, including oversite of other team members
• Ability to quickly perform other related duties as assigned

Talent Acquisition Manager – Partners & Counsel

Events

• Partner closely with the Creative Director to push creative boundaries while ensuring consistency, clarity, and sophistication across all event executions
• Help drive the creative vision for McDermott events, developing overarching concepts and narratives that unify digital, environmental, and experiential elements into a seamless attendee journey
• Design immersive, ownable experiences that transform venues into branded environments aligned with McDermott’s brand standards, business priorities, and audience expectations
• Translate high-level themes and messaging into scalable creative systems that work across event sizes, formats, and geographies
• Oversee the design of digital event assets, including email campaigns, event registration websites, and social graphics, ensuring cohesion across all pre-event marketing channels
• Lead the design and execution of on-site creative applications, including environmental branding, signage, stage graphics, wayfinding, experiential moments, and printed collateral
• Own the creative workstream for assigned events, leading creative status calls, managing timelines and workflows, and serving as the primary creative point of contact for stakeholders
• Brief, guide, and review work from internal designers and external vendors, providing clear direction and managing partners to ensure design intent is executed at the highest level, on time and on budget

Senior Manager, Event Design

Recruitment

• Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and key stakeholders within assigned business function(s).
• Partner closely with Human Resources Managers to understand hiring needs, departmental nuances, and workforce trends.
• Lead intake meetings with assigned hiring managers to assess staffing needs and create a recruiting plan.
• Review submitted resumes and conduct phone interviews to identify top candidates and present recommendations to hiring managers.
• Analyze selected candidate’s experience to prepare competitive salary offers in collaboration with staff compensation.
• Manage relationships with staffing agency contacts.
• Maintain accurate and appropriate documentation in the Firm’s Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Business Professionals

Attorney

• Unterstützung des Teams im Bereich Legal Tech
• Zusammenarbeit mit Mandanten
• Entwicklung und Implementierung von Technologien für rechtliche Anwendungen

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende – Legal Tech

Security Engineer

• Oversee the security of the Firm’s applications, networks, and systems
• Manage the security and integrity of the Firm’s information systems throughout their lifecycle
• Ensure that systems are secure during operations
• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for other Firm departments
• Develop and manage security requirements of Firm assets and systems
• Create and maintain the Firm-wide security architecture
• Manage security requirements throughout the development and acquisition lifecycles for all assets
• Perform certification and accreditation prior to releasing software to production
• Develop and maintain software, application, network, hardware, systems, and mobile device inventories
• Define, implement, assess, and maintain controls necessary to protect software, applications, networks, hardware, systems, and mobile devices in accordance with security requirements
• Manage security configuration and changes for software, applications, networks, hardware, systems, and mobile devices
• Develop and maintain information asset inventories and establish and maintain controls necessary to protect information and critical assets
• Collaborate with individuals and teams outside of Information Security
• Mentor and support other team members in day-to-day activities

Senior Information Security Engineer

• Develop, coordinate and oversee the firm’s attorney AI learning strategy, including baseline AI training, practice-based AI learning, and advanced workshops and credentialing.
• Combine legal practice expertise with the ability to design, operationalize and evaluate attorney training and development initiatives in a rapidly evolving AI environment.
• Report to the firm’s Senior Director of Talent & Development and will work closely with Professional Development, Knowledge Management, Information Technology, practice and affinity group leaders, and other relevant stakeholders to assess attorney learning needs, design AI learning strategy and ensure that programming is aligned with the firm’s goals, approved tools, and evolving market and legal trends.
• Lead development and implementation of the firm’s attorney AI learning strategy.
• Assess current attorney AI training efforts and develop recommendations regarding learning architecture, credentialing, cadence, workshop design, and training modalities.
• Serve as the day-to-day cross-functional lead across Talent & Development, Knowledge Management, IT, practice group leaders, and other stakeholders on attorney AI learning initiatives, including identifying legal workflows, use cases, and case studies that should inform attorney AI learning.
• Partner with Talent leadership to integrate attorney AI learning with the broader attorney lifecycle, including onboarding, skills development, supervision, advancement, and practice-group programming.
• Continuously evaluate and update attorney AI learning strategy, curricula, and content to ensure they remain relevant, practical, and innovative.
• Recommend and operationalize a visible, credible approach to attorney credentialing and recognition in the AI learning space.
• Help shape an approach that protects foundational lawyer skill development while encouraging thoughtful adoption of new tools and workflows.
• Develop a practical framework for tracking participation, completion, credentialing, and other relevant program indicators.
• Prepare updates and recommendations for Talent leadership and other firm leaders regarding program progress, gaps, and next-step priorities.
• Leverage technology platforms and analytics to deliver, track, assess, and adjust the learning strategy over time.
• Monitor developments in legal AI tools, legal technology, and related market trends and translate them into timely updates to attorney learning content and guidance.
• Participate in learning and development, legal innovation, knowledge management, and AI-related organizations and conferences to stay abreast of emerging tools, learning methods, and market trends.

Director, Attorney AI Learning & Strategy

• Define and lead the marketing automation and event technology strategy.
• Manage intake, prioritization, and resource allocation across campaign and event technologies.
• Own and optimize the integration across marketing automation, event technology platform, and CRM system (Salesforce).
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex, high-risk, or time-sensitive technology-enabled campaign and event initiatives.
• Lead and support the strategy, implementation, and optimization of marketing automation and event technology platform.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate campaign and event requirements into effective, scalable technology solutions.
• Drive continuous optimization of platform performance, event engagement, execution efficiency, and data quality.
• Develop and implement scalable workflows, templates, and playbooks, while establishing and enforcing standards and best practices.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance platform utilization, automation, and overall efficiency across campaign and event technology.
• Own data capture, data integrity, and governance processes across marketing automation and event platforms.
• Oversee and develop the Campaign Manager and Event Technology Manager.

Associate Director of Campaign & Event Technology

Project Manager

• The Project Manager leads enterprise-wide initiatives that modernize the firm’s technology ecosystem and support AI-driven transformation.
• This role manages high-visibility programs involving SaaS platforms, custom applications, enterprise infrastructure, data ecosystems, integrations, platform modernization, GenAI deployments and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Partners with technology, business, innovation, and executive stakeholders to develop actionable delivery plans, communicate risks and value, evaluate competing priorities, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Operates with minimal oversight and relies on significant experience, strategic judgment, and decision-making skills to plan and accomplish objectives.

• Serve as the primary legal advisor for AI tools and applications
• Provide practical legal guidance on how AI technologies interact with firm systems
• Advise on legal issues involving data access and cybersecurity
• Support vendor diligence and contracting processes for AI-related tools

Counsel, AI Risk & Compliance

Product Manager

• Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with firm and stakeholder objectives.
• Work with key stakeholders to define the product strategy and to identify measurable goals and objectives aligned with that strategy.
• Develop a product roadmap and work collaboratively with the design, development and QA teams to drive delivery of product releases.
• Oversee end-user support of their products to ensure complete user satisfaction.
• Utilize user research, usage analytics, and end-user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement in meeting and exceeding user expectations.

Senior Product Manager

Business Analyst

• Partner with attorneys and operational leaders to surface workflow pain points and translate them into AI use cases
• Design and build AI solutions using state-of-the-art AI foundation platforms — from conversational tools to full document automation
• Orchestrate agentic workflows that autonomously handle multi-step legal and business processes via integration frameworks and APIs
• Use prompting to engineer bespoke applications and solutions with high-quality output
• Integrate AI solutions with M365 applications, Enterprise Data Warehouse, the firm's Document Management System and other enterprise applications