Product manager for legal technology

Our Technology team continues to go from strength to strength, playing a vital role in firm-wide innovation and strategy. Far from being a support function, Technology is integral to the firm's growth agenda, backed by strong leadership engagement and sustained investment. Reporting to the Head of Product, the Product Manager - Practice of Law owns the strategy, roadmap and value realisation for the products lawyers use to deliver client work.

• Own a coherent strategy and roadmap across legal AI, document management, drafting, contract automation, collaboration and specialist practice tools.
• Manage the strategy for matter lifecyle, considering the overall fee-earner experience and hand-offs across technology and business workflows.
• Prioritise investment using evidence of user need, client value, risk, adoption, technical health and total cost using frameworks such as RICE.
• Rationalise overlap and low-value tools while protecting critical legal workflows and practice-specific needs.
• Lead discovery with lawyers, Knowledge teams and business services to identify high-value workflow problems.
• Be the point contact for
• Use pilots, PoCs, vibe-coding and iterative delivery to validate demand and measure productivity, quality, capacity, risk reduction and client impact.
• Ensure AI and automation capabilities move beyond isolated pilots into supported, repeatable workflows where evidence justifies scale.
• Ensure document, matter and knowledge integrations are secure, reliable and aligned to the firm's architecture and information-governance requirements.
• Own strategic supplier relationships and commercial input across key legal technology platforms.
• Balance feature development with service reliability, release management, technical debt and operational readiness.
• Lead and coach the two Product Owners, set clear portfolio boundaries and resolve cross-product priorities.
• Create a joined-up operating rhythm across discovery, delivery, releases, adoption and service improvement.

• Significant Product Manager experience owning business-critical platforms or digital products in a complex organisation.
• Proven ability to define product strategy, roadmaps, priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Strong product craft across discovery, iterative delivery, adoption, value measurement and lifecycle management.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders and the ability to make trade-offs across competing priorities.
• Experience leading and developing Product Owners or comparable product and platform specialists.
• Confidence partnering with Engineering, Data, Architecture, Security and suppliers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a pragmatic and accountable approach.
• Strong understanding of legal workflows, document-centric work or knowledge-intensive professional services.
• Experience managing a diverse portfolio where adoption, workflow fit and supplier capability are central to value.
• Будет плюсом: Experience in a law firm, professional services or another regulated environment; Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, complex integrations and vendor ecosystems; Experience improving adoption, operational readiness and business processes through product-led change; Familiarity with Jira Product Discovery, Jira and evidence-based prioritisation; Experience with legal AI, iManage, document automation, drafting or legal collaboration platforms; Understanding of confidentiality, privilege, matter context and responsible AI controls

• We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential.
• We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.