Apple

Senior Product Owner, Legal Operations

Apple$130K — $180K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in product management, business analysis, or legal operations
  • Hands-on experience in corporate operations and legal workflows
  • Skilled in leading user research and translating findings into specifications
  • Experience collaborating with technical teams, including AI/ML
  • Expertise in design thinking and agile product development
  • Strong documentation abilities for business requirements and user stories
  • Exceptional facilitation and communication skills for engaging stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive product strategy for Legal Operations
  • Conduct user research to understand legal workflows and needs
  • Document requirements and maintain the product backlog
  • Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to deliver reliable legal solutions
  • Translate user insights into product specifications and metrics
  • Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to align objectives
  • Ensure product solutions are trusted and adopted by attorneys

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead product strategy in the legal domain
  • Collaborative work with AI/ML engineers and product developers
  • Focus on user-centered design and legal workflow optimization
  • Engagement in a dynamic, evolving industry
  • Possibility to influence significant change in legal operations
Full Job Description
Description

The Senior Product Owner defines and drives overarching product strategy for Legal Operations, combining legal domain expertise with product ownership and hands-on business analysis. You will leverage your understanding of legal workflows to conduct user research, document requirements, own the product backlog, and work closely with AI/ML Engineers and AI Product Developers to deliver solutions that attorneys trust and adopt. This role requires legal operations fluency, deep empathy for users, analytical rigor, and sharp prioritization skills.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, and/or legal operations - with hands-on experience across multiple disciplines

Demonstrated delivery of solutions leveraging deep expertise in corporate operations, workflows, and terminology

Proven ability to lead user research, design, and requirements, translating findings into product specifications and customer success metrics

Experience working with technical teams (e.g. engineering, data science, AI/ML)

Proven track record delivering solutions leveraging design thinking, agile methodologies, and the product development lifecycle

Excellent documentation skills - able to produce clear business requirements, process flows, and user stories

Strong facilitation skills for workshops, interviews, and stakeholder sessions

Excellent communication skills - able to engage credibly with attorneys and influence stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience in a corporate legal department, law firm, or legal tech company

Familiarity with legal systems (matter management, CLM, eBilling, document management, eDiscovery)

Understanding of legal spend management, LEDES/UTBMS billing codes, and outside counsel operations

Experience with AI/ML products or data-driven applications

Understanding of AI capabilities and limitations (LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering)

Experience with business process modeling and workflow documentation tools

Experience with product analytics and user research methodologies

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), CBAP, or similar certification

JD, paralegal certificate, or legal operations certification a plus

Track record of shipping products that legal professionals adopt and value

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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