Senior Director, Legal & Compliance Technology

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the Legal & Compliance technology capability roadmap and conduct gap assessments.

• Convert legal and compliance priorities into a structured, fundable plan.

• Lead recommendations for build, buy, and consolidation, and create investment cases for executive approval.

• Foster alignment among Functional and Technical leadership.

• Manage the Legal & Compliance SaaS platform portfolio, including administration, configuration, vendor release and upgrade planning, and technical escalations.

• Oversee vendor evaluation and selection in collaboration with Sourcing and Legal; manage licensing posture, renewal strategies, and contract performance.

• Direct the contract lifecycle management process, including intake, authoring, negotiation, approval, execution, repository management, obligation oversight, and renewal.

• Conduct CLM evaluations, provide recommendations, and ensure delivery.

• Establish target-state contract architecture in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture.

• Influence the AI agenda for legal and compliance functions.

• Determine legal data, reporting, and integration requirements, and oversee the acceptance of completed work.

• Act as the primary technology partner for Legal leadership.

• Maintain scope, quality, and schedule across implementation partners while proactively escalating risks with recommended solutions.

• Lead a product team and collaborate with security, engineering, architecture, and data & analytics teams for successful delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 12 years of experience in enterprise technology product or platform leadership.

• More than 5 years of experience leading teams.

• Proven ownership of a multi-platform legal technology portfolio, including CLM, matter management, e-billing, or document management.

• At least one complete CLM implementation experience, covering evaluation, configuration, and delivery.

• Extensive experience in SaaS platform ownership, including administration, configuration, release cycles, licensing, and renewals.

• A successful track record of developing business cases and guiding decisions through executive governance.

• Ability to influence others without unilateral authority and present effectively to senior leadership.

• Experience in collaborating with functional executives as a peer from the outset.

• Proficiency in architecture and integration, enabling informed platform decisions, requirement setting, and vendor claim scrutiny.

• Experience delivering through partner engineering teams and integrators.

• Preferred: experience in the legal or compliance domain within a corporate legal department, law firm, or legal technology vendor.

• Preferred: knowledge of the legal technology market, including CLM, matter and spend management, document management, entity management, GRC, and e-discovery.

• Familiarity with AI in production enterprise workflows, including associated governance.

• Experience in a matrixed technology organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision health insurance coverage.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a $1 for $1 Company Match up to 5%.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Associate Assistance Plan.

• Education Assistance Program.

• Up to $30,000 in Adoption Assistance.

• Up to three weeks of vacation annually starting from the date of hire.

• Holiday Leave.

• Sick Leave.

• Personal Day policies.

• New Hire Referral Bonus Program.

• Home Purchase Discounts.

• Everyone’s Included Day.