Overview
Senior Product Manager – Legal Technology sought on behalf of a New York-Based investment and technology development firm.
The firm seeks a senior product manager to join its new Legal Technology team. This team is focused on transforming how the firm’s attorneys work with documents and creating the infrastructure needed for AI-powered capabilities. The role offers a greenfield opportunity to build and scale a high-impact product function, shaping the product management discipline and taking on broader leadership as the team scales.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for attorney-facing systems, partnering with legal, engineering, UX, and AI teams to deliver workflow improvements that reduce friction in document-heavy processes.
- Establish the operating model for how Legal Technology builds and ships products globally, including a design-first development approach, structured prioritization practices, and close coordination between U.S. and India-based teams.
- Partner directly with senior legal clients to translate complex operational needs into clear product direction, ensuring leadership engagement at key decision points.
- Lead buy-vs.-build evaluations for key systems, analyzing where internal builds offer a clear advantage and where the external market is stronger
- Collaborate with AI and engineering teams to identify where AI-assisted features can meaningfully reduce manual effort.
- Build product management discipline within Legal Technology—including prioritization frameworks, backlog management, release planning, and cross-functional coordination—with the opportunity to manage and mentor other PMs as the team grows.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- A bachelor’s degree or higher and at least ten years of relevant product management experience, with a proven record of building and delivering high-quality software products.
- Experience leading complex product initiatives and building internal platforms, document management tools, or operational software in enterprise, workflow-heavy, or document-centric environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, or help scale a product management function is preferred.
- Experience with user-centered development practices—including high-fidelity prototyping and iterative end-user feedback—and the ability to bring structure to product development through disciplined prioritization, backlog management, and release planning.
- Solid technical fluency and credibility with engineering teams, plus the ability to operate in ambiguity, balance strategy with execution, and drive work to completion with discretion; full-stack exposure is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to translate the needs of non-technical users into clear product requirements.
Company Benefits
The expected annual base salary for this position is $225,000 to $300,000. The 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.
