Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology

General Counsel's organization · United States Work at Home The Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing technology strategy, product roadmaps, engineering delivery, and modernization across a portfolio of critical Corporate Functions capabilities. The initial portfolio will have a significant focus on Legal technology and enterprise collaboration, with responsibility for technology capabilities supporting Legal Operations, regulatory and compliance activities, contract lifecycle management, contract ingestion and intelligence, legal matter and spend management, discovery and legal hold, knowledge management, collaboration, content, search, and AI-enabled productivity. The portfolio is intentionally designed to evolve. In addition to Legal and collaboration capabilities, this leader may assume responsibility for other Corporate Functions technology capabilities, including select Finance and enterprise shared services, as business priorities and the Corporate Technology operating model evolve. The Managing Director will partner closely with senior leaders across Legal, Legal Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, Technology, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Privacy, Risk, and other enterprise functions to establish an innovation-driven technology roadmap that simplifies the technology landscape, improves the user experience, and delivers measurable business outcomes. A critical mandate of the role is to accelerate the transition from traditional project-based technology delivery toward durable, product-oriented teams and iterative, outcome-based ways of working. The leader will bring together business capability ownership, product management, architecture, and engineering to deliver smaller increments of value, learn quickly, and continuously improve products and platforms. The Managing Director will maintain a strong external orientation, staying current on developments across enterprise technology, Legal technology, collaboration, AI, automation, and contract intelligence and translating emerging capabilities into practical opportunities for the enterprise. Responsibilities: Technology Strategy and Business Partnership Own technology strategy, product roadmaps, investment priorities, and execution across the assigned Corporate Functions portfolio, with an initial concentration in Legal technology and enterprise collaboration. Establish strong partnerships with the General Counsel's organization, Legal Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, and Technology leaders to jointly define business outcomes, technology priorities, investment roadmaps, and measures of success. Translate business strategy and capability needs into a multi-year technology strategy spanning platforms, data, architecture, engineering, AI, automation, and operating-model change. Serve as a trusted technology advisor to senior business leadership, bringing forward technology opportunities, risks, investment choices, and external market perspectives. Create transparency around roadmap priorities, delivery progress, investment, dependencies, technology risk, and business outcomes. Legal and Corporate Functions Technology Provide technology leadership across Legal capabilities including matter management and e-billing; Legal intake and workflow; e-discovery and legal hold; regulatory and compliance technology; intellectual property and entity management; Legal knowledge management; investigations; and productivity. Establish the technology strategy and capabilities for contract ingestion and intelligence, including the ability to ingest contracts and related documents, extract and structure key terms and obligations, identify contractual intent, enable validation and analysis, and make contract information available to downstream business processes, analytics, AI, and decision-making. Partner across various Technology, Business, Legal and relevant Corporate Function