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As a member of the Digital Innovation and Data Services team, this position works closely with attorneys, clients, business professionals, Information Services, data teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to translate legal and business needs into practical digital tools, workflows, dashboards, automation solutions, and AI-enabled applications. The position requires hands-on technical capability, project management skills, strong communication skills, and sound judgment regarding confidentiality, data protection, responsible AI use, and the operational needs of a law firm environment.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.\nDigital Solution Design and DeliveryWork with clients, attorneys, practice groups, administrative departments, and Firm leadership to identify legal service delivery and business operations needs that may be addressed through technology, automation, data, or process improvement.\nLead requirements gathering, workflow mapping, solution design, testing, documentation, launch planning, and post-launch improvement for digital innovation projects.\nDesign, build, and coordinate delivery of digital tools using approved Firm technologies, including Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint Online, AI-enabled tools, dashboards, workflow automation, and related platforms.\nDevelop scalable and maintainable solutions that align with Firm standards for security, confidentiality, information governance, usability, and support.\n\nAI, Automation, and Low-Code DevelopmentDesign, develop, test, deploy, and maintain automated workflows using Microsoft Power Automate and related workflow tools.\nBuild and support business applications using Microsoft Power Apps and other approved low-code or no-code development platforms.\nDevelop dashboards, reports, and data visualizations using Microsoft Power BI and other approved analytics tools.\nDevelop, configure, evaluate, and support AI agents and AI-enabled workflows using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and other approved Firm platforms.\nIdentify opportunities to automate repetitive legal or administrative tasks while preserving appropriate human review, attorney judgment, and escalation where required.\n\nData and Integration SupportSupport data intake, transformation, reporting, and integration efforts in coordination with Information Services, data teams, vendors, and other technical resources.\nCollaborate with Enterprise Business Solutions and Software Development teams to support API-enabled integrations and related technical documentation in compliance with Firm governance, security, privacy, and information management requirements.\nCoordinate across Information Services, information security, records, privacy, and other governance stakeholders to support appropriate review, approval, deployment, and support of digital solutions.\n\nProject Management and Innovation Portfolio SupportManage multiple digital innovation projects from intake and prioritization through design, development, testing, launch, adoption, and ongoing improvement.\nAssist with prioritizing projects based on business value, effort, risk, stakeholder readiness, resource requirements, and strategic alignment.\nTrack project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, adoption metrics, and outcomes, and communicate updates to stakeholders and leadership.\nUse agile, iterative, or other appropriate delivery methods to support timely delivery of solutions that meet legal and business objectives.\n\nStakeholder Engagement, Training, and AdoptionBuild effective working relationships with attorneys, practice group leaders, business professionals, clients where appropriate, and administrative departments to identify needs and support adoption of digital tools.\nPrepare and deliver demonstrations, training materials, user guides, process documentation, and other adoption resources for new and existing solutions.\nMaintain feedback loops with end users to improve solution quality, usability, adoption, and supportability.\nCommunicate technical concepts in practical, accessible terms for legal and business audiences.\n\nTechnology Evaluation and Responsible InnovationMonitor developments in AI, automation, data analytics, legal technology, and professional services innovation, and assess their relevance to Firm priorities.\nContribute to the evaluation of new tools, platforms, vendors, and use cases, including business case development, pilot design, testing, adoption planning, and risk assessment.\nExercise sound judgment in handling confidential, privileged, personal, and client information, and ensure that proposed solutions are designed and used consistent with Firm policies, information governance standards, and responsible AI practices.\n\nQUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nEDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:\nBachelor’s Degree and 5-7 years of experience years; equivalent combination of education, training and experience may substitute for education requirement.\nProfessional services experience highly desirable.\nTECHNICAL SKILLS:\nDemonstrated proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and related collaboration tools.\nHands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI.\nExperience developing, configuring, testing, and supporting AI-enabled tools, agents, or workflows using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, or comparable platforms.\nExperience developing and maintaining SharePoint Online modern sites, lists, libraries, pages, collaboration resources, and workflow-enabled knowledge management solutions.\nWorking knowledge of RESTful APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI specifications, data integrations, and related technical documentation.\nAbility to document technical solutions, business requirements, process workflows, testing plans, user guides, and support procedures.\nAbility to learn, evaluate, and apply new software applications and emerging technologies in a practical business environment.\nExperience with Git, Azure DevOps, backlog management, version control, or similar development and delivery tools is desirable.\nFamiliarity with legal technology platforms, document automation, matter management, knowledge management, contract lifecycle management, legal research, or legal operations tools is desirable.\nExperience with visual collaboration, diagramming, workflow mapping, and design tools such as Lucid, Miro, Visio, or comparable platforms is desirable.\nLANGUAGE SKILLS:\nAbility to effectively communicate technical concepts with an audience.\nAbility to interact effectively with attorneys and other key personnel; to manage and exceed expectations; and to exhibit a high degree of responsiveness, diplomacy and professionalism in these interactions.\nAbility to effectively present information in both written and oral formats and respond to questions from all levels of professional and support staff and clients. Ability to effectively present information to top firm management.\nAbility to write business correspondence, procedure manuals, reports, speeches and articles for publication that conforms to prescribed style and format.\nMATHEMATICAL SKILLS:\nAbility to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.\nGeneral knowledge of accounting principles and audition and internal control concepts.\nREASONING ABILITY:\nAbility to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.\nAbility to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.\nAbility to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.\nAbility to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.\nExhibit independent thinking and decision making.\nAbility to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.\nAbility to think strategically, develop tactics and execute pragmatically.\nOTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:\nDemonstrated ability to multi-task and be detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.\nStrong analytical and communication skills both oral and written.\nExcellent organizational and planning skills with ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects to meet deadlines.\nOutstanding creativity; flexibility and persistence; motivation and energy with the ability to work with little supervision and collaborate with other members of the team.\nAbility to work overtime when needed. Work occasionally requires more than 40 hours per week to perform the essential duties of the position.\nAbility to demonstrate impeccable integrity in personal and fiduciary matters.\nA tolerance for uncertainty and an ability to prioritize and complete simultaneous projects with minimal supervision.\nStrong project management skills. Project and team management experience with attention to detail and a willingness to “roll up sleeves” and operate at whatever level is needed to accomplish tasks.\nAbility to coordinate the activities of department resources.\nThorough understanding of technologies that can be applied to law firm operations, legal service delivery, workflow automation, data analytics, collaboration, knowledge management, and client service.\nDemonstrated ability to employ software at the power-user competence level.\nAbility to work in a fast-paced environment with strict deadlines.\nAbility to exercise discretion with confidential and sensitive information.\nMust be able to perform essential duties of the position with time constraints and interruptions.\nA strong client service approach and team orientation.\nDemonstrate good judgment, tact, and flexibility under pressure in a mixed-matrix environment with many stakeholders and potentially competing priorities.\nFamiliarity with legal workflows, law firm operations, practice group needs, client service models, and the business of law.\nAbility to exercise practical judgment when evaluating AI, automation, data, and digital workflow use cases, including when to escalate confidentiality, privacy, security, ethics, or governance considerations for review.\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that should be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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