Senior Manager - Functional (Legal Technology)
Job Description
Summary
Location: Hyderabad, India
Step into the forefront of legal innovation—where law meets cutting-edge technology. As a techno-functional leader within the Legal Innovation Hub, you will shape how legal work is delivered at scale, driving the design and implementation of GenAI-powered solutions that transform contracting, governance, and decision-making. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide legal processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and turn complex legal challenges into intelligent, future-ready solutions that create measurable impact.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic liaison translating legal and business needs into scalable product roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Lead discovery workshops to analyze legal processes and identify automation and transformation opportunities.
- Translate legal requirements into functional designs in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Drive development of GenAI-powered solutions, including contract review, risk flagging, and negotiation support.
- Design and guide retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, agent orchestration, and artificial intelligence control frameworks.
- Lead end-to-end implementation including configuration, user testing, release planning, and continuous optimization.
- Foster stakeholder engagement through training, enablement, and change management initiatives.
- Define and track performance metrics to measure adoption, efficiency, and business impact.
- Skilled in implementing AI evaluation and safety controls, including prompt testing, golden datasets, hallucination detection, red-teaming, and content safety mechanisms.
Essential Requirements
- Degree in Law, such as Bachelor of Laws or Master of Laws, with strong legal operations, legal technology, and contracting experience.
- Significant (12+ years) experience in legal technology delivery, including exposure to generative artificial intelligence solutions.
- Hands-on expertise with contract life-cycle management platforms, including templates, workflows, approvals, and governance models.
- Strong understanding of generative artificial intelligence concepts including retrieval augmented generation and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience integrating enterprise systems using application programming interfaces, webhooks, and data pipelines.
- Proficiency within the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and low-code automation tools.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value
- Proven techno-functional expertise translating legal requirements into scalable technology solutions and collaborating effectively with engineering teams, as well as demonstrated proficiency in developing PowerPoint presentations.
Desirable Requirements
- Certifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Artificial Intelligence.
- Experience with Power BI for reporting and analytics
- Experience in managing corporate transactions, litigation, and intellectual property matters, ideally in a pharma or highly regulated environment, and exposure to legal tech tools.
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