Associate Director – eDiscovery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for Lilly's eDiscovery initiative.

• Develop technical specifications and standard operating procedures for defensible, efficient, and consistent EDRM processes.

• Collaborate in managing Lilly’s legal hold platform and vendor relationships.

• Provide daily operational support and promote technology enhancements.

• Work alongside business areas to preserve data under legal hold requirements across enterprise systems, data lakes, system retirements, and acquisition integrations.

• Integrate and automate legal hold systems.

• Define, automate, and manage data collection from diverse systems, formats, and metadata while ensuring appropriate chain of custody.

• Collaborate in managing eDiscovery data processing, review, and platform-hosting vendor relationships.

• Oversee vendor service quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

• Assess and partner with vendors to implement AI and machine learning solutions, encompassing TAR/CAL, predictive coding, and advanced analytics.

• Provide guidance on complex and ambiguous eDiscovery scenarios while sequencing technical execution in alignment with deadlines and system constraints.

• Collaborate with outside counsel, Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.

• Mentor colleagues and work collaboratively across EDRM stages.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, information management, legal studies, or a related field.

• Over 6 years of experience in eDiscovery operations or legal technology.

• Hands-on experience managing eDiscovery tools and platforms throughout the EDRM lifecycle.

• Authorization to work full-time in the United States.

• ACEDS, LegalTech, or similar certification(s) is highly desirable.

• PMP certification is a strong asset.

• Experience in collecting data from multinational, multisystem enterprise environments with complex metadata requirements is highly desirable.

• Experience in automating eDiscovery workflows is highly desirable.

• Direct experience implementing TAR/CAL, predictive coding, or analytics tools during live litigation review is highly desirable.

• Ability to articulate technical eDiscovery concepts to non-technical senior leaders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company bonus, based partially on company and individual performance.

• Company-sponsored 401(k).

• Pension plan.

• Vacation benefits.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

• Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts.

• Life insurance and death benefits.

• Time off and leave of absence benefits.

• Well-being benefits, including an employee assistance program and fitness benefits.

• Opportunities for employee clubs and activities.

• Employee resource groups accessible to all employees.