Join our Innovation Team as a Innovation Project Manager in one of our various U.S. office locations.We are seeking a highly skilled professional who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in every task. With a dedicated work ethic and a can-do attitude, you will take initiative and approach challenges with confidence and resilience. Excellent communication skills are essential for collaborating effectively across teams and delivering exceptional client service. If you are someone who demonstrates initiatives, adaptability, and innovation, we invite you to join our team.
Position Summary:The Innovation Project Manager leads the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of innovation initiatives across the firm, with a focus on the firm's AI program. Working closely with attorneys, practice group leaders, IT, and external vendors, the Innovation Project Manager moves initiatives from intake and evaluation through pilot, implementation, adoption, and value realization. The role serves as a strategic partner in building a well-governed innovation portfolio that aligns with firm strategy, protects client confidentiality, and promotes the responsible use of AI.
Key Responsibilities:Innovation Portfolio & AI Program Management
- Manages the intake, prioritization, and readiness assessment of innovation and AI use cases
- Plans, scopes, and delivers projects within the firm's AI program across enterprise AI tools
- Maintains visibility of the innovation project portfolio, including status, dependencies, and resourcing, through executive-level reporting and leadership dashboards
- Develops annual innovation roadmaps in collaboration with firm and practice group leadership
Project Planning & Execution
- Partners with sponsors to define project objectives, scope, schedule, and success metrics
- Develops project plans, critical success factors, status reports, and delivery roadmaps
- Executes projects across Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models
- Leads geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams and secure resources in a matrix organization
- Coordinates testing, deployment, training, and adoption readiness with departments and vendors
- Manages tasks, timelines, expenses, and budgets, and takes corrective action when tasks or milestones slip
- Coordinates timely review and sign-off on all project deliverables
Technology Evaluation, Pilots & Implementation
- Designs and launches vendor pilots with defined success criteria and metrics
- Prepares pilot debriefs and go/no-go recommendations for leadership
- Develops rollout playbooks covering readiness assessment, governance, pilot design, training, and phased deployment
- Leads phased firm-wide and global deployments of approved solutions
- Applies AI and automation to legal and business workflows, including document processes, knowledge management, and reporting
Stakeholder & Client Engagement
- Serves as key point of contact for attorneys, practice group leaders, and executive leadership
- Collaborates with IT, Training, and InfoSec to align priorities and delivery
- Facilitates stakeholder meetings, discovery and requirements sessions, workshops, and solution design sessions
- Supports client-facing innovation work, including client requirements discussions and performance reporting
- Manages and aligns client and internal stakeholder expectations proactively
Vendor & Third-Party Management
- Occasionally leads RFP processes (e.g., SharePoint provisioning automation), including requirements, evaluation, due diligence, and vendor selection
- Serves as liaison between vendors and internal teams, managing relationships, SLAs, performance metrics, and delivery expectations
- Coordinates onboarding and governance of third-party consultants and resources
Qualifications:Skills & Competencies
- Demonstrated full project lifecycle experience, from feasibility studies, business cases, and requirements through selection, implementation, and post-implementation support
- Proven success managing multiple concurrent projects and complex portfolios in fast-paced environments
- Experience managing projects involving AI, automation, and technology to legal and professional services workflows
- Experience with structured change management and digital transformation in professional services
- Ability to translate complex business, legal, and technical challenges into actionable plans
- Understanding of law firm economics and legal service delivery models preferred
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret operational, usage, and financial data
- Advanced stakeholder management and executive communication skills, including presenting complex concepts clearly and succinctly
- Ability to influence without authority in a partnership-driven organization
- Experience facilitating workshops, stakeholder alignment sessions, and design thinking initiatives
- Self-starter able to work independently and within globally distributed, cross-functional teams, adapting work style to project and cultural demands
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and prioritization skills
Education & Prior Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of project management experience (law firm, professional services, or consulting experience preferred), including leading technology and AI initiatives a plus
- PMP certification required
- Experience working within a PMO environment preferred
Technology
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and project management tools
- Experience with SharePoint, HighQ, Power BI or equivalent tools for dashboards and reporting
- Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot), including prompt design and evaluation of AI-generated output
- Understanding of large language models, natural language processing, machine learning, and automation use cases a plus
- Familiarity with enterprise systems, cloud platforms, information governance standards, and application, database, and system architecture a plus
Physical Requirements:- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to move from workstation or desk throughout the work area to work independently or with a team to meet with colleagues or supervisor and retrieve work assignments.
- This position may also be sedentary and require the employee to sit for extended periods of time.
- Requires manual dexterity to use a phone, enter data into a computer, handle objects, and use office equipment.
The expected pay range for this position is:NV : $150,881 - $172473 per year Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. Full time employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, short term disability, long term disability, dental insurance, vision care, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, 401K, vacation, sick time, and an employee assistance program. Additional voluntary programs include: voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance and pet insurance. Commuter and Transit programs may also be available in certain markets.
