Product Manager - Legal Technology Infrastructure

The D. E. Shaw Group

$175K — $250K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher with 5-10 years of relevant product management experience.
  • Preferably experienced in platform, infrastructure, and document-centric product management.
  • Familiarity with information architecture and metadata modeling is advantageous.
  • Collaborative experience with software developers on complex products is vital.
  • Exposure to AI product capabilities is a plus, but not mandatory.
  • Strong communication skills and problem-solving abilities are necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the infrastructure product roadmap for Legal Technology.
  • Partner with legal, product, and engineering teams to identify pain points and prioritize demands.
  • Design infrastructure to support attorney retrieval patterns, working with AI engineers.
  • Manage product lifecycle from discovery to iteration, ensuring timely launches.
  • Structure complex, cross-functional initiatives by outlining scope, dependencies, and success metrics.

Benefits

  • Medical and prescription drug coverage
  • 401(k) contribution matching
  • Wellness reimbursement
  • Family building benefits
  • Charitable gift match program
Full Job Description
What you'll do day-to-day

  • Define and drive the infrastructure product roadmap for Legal Technology, with a focus on document storage, metadata architecture, and scalable information access across the department.
  • Partner with legal, product, and engineering clients to identify pain points, clarify priorities, and translate business needs into infrastructure requirements.
  • Design infrastructure that supports the retrieval patterns attorneys require-semantic search, deterministic clause retrieval, and relational metadata-and work closely with AI engineers to evaluate where each approach is best suited.
  • Drive initiatives through the full product lifecycle, from discovery and prioritization through launch and iteration.
  • Bring structure to complex, cross-functional efforts by defining scope, dependencies, and success metrics.


What we're looking for

  • A bachelor's degree or higher and five to ten years of relevant product management experience.
  • Experience working on platform, infrastructure, data, search, content management, or document-centric products is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with storage systems, information architecture, metadata modeling, retrieval systems, or related technical areas is a plus.
  • Experience partnering closely with software developers on technically complex products.
  • Exposure to AI-enabled product capabilities, including semantic search, knowledge retrieval, or document processing pipelines, is helpful but not required.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to solve open-ended problems.
  • The expected annual base salary for this position is $175,000 to $250,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.


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