Senior Manager, Legal Operations
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Burbank • California, Florida, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $139,200 - $186,600 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Identify/Measure/Test/Implement Legal Tech Portfolio
- Research new legal tech and partner with teams in and outside of legal to ensure alignment
- Gather requirements to add tools
- Create cohesive and comprehensive strategy with corresponding 1, 5 and 10 year plans
- Plan necessary change management and process changes to complement the technology changes
- Ensure compliance with all internal standards, policies and best practices
- Regularly measure and report on legal tech value
- Create and conduct communication plans to socialize changes
- Collect, organize, prioritize, and project manage dozens of transformational leads and make recommendations based upon ROI data
- Stay connected to and leverage enterprise technology transformation
- Identify ways to improve collaboration with law firms and business
- Develop team members to optimize team productivity and effectiveness as well as employee experience
- Pave the way for success for team members as they chart new or sensitive territory
- Provide guidance on escalated issues
- Oversee support teams and ensure their effectiveness
- Ensure proper documentation is maintained
- Partner with Enterprise IT support teams to remain compliant and to avoid conflicting changes
- Lead strategic partner discussions with stakeholders at all levels within and outside legal
- Contribute or lead initiatives as they come up that relate to the objectives of the department
- Ensure smooth and thorough communications are flowing within the department
Requirements
- At least five (5) years’ work experience in a legal or IT position developing, implementing, and supporting legal solutions and services, with increasingly responsible supervisory/management experience
- Deep experience with Legal technology including AI
- Demonstrated experience in leading project work and managing people
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively to a diverse array of audiences, including senior executives
- Capable of leading projects across teams
- Ability to prioritize and multitask while meeting tight deadlines
- Ability to coordinate and liaise with multiple departments using strong project management skills
- Passionate about transforming business operations using technology with complimentary process and creating a culture of continuous improvement
- Knowledgeable about Legal concepts and processes
- Curious about data and the ability to analyze programs effectively
- Proven ability to scale programs and grow them effectively
- Experience developing teams and working with individuals early in their careers
- Experience developing strategic or departmental planning materials that required consensus gathering from multiple constituents
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal technologyAIproject managementdata analysischange managementprocess improvementstrategic planningROI analysiscollaboration toolsdocumentation management
Soft skills
communicationleadershipteam developmentprioritizationmultitaskingproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementorganizational skillsadaptabilityinterpersonal skills