Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of experience in consulting/program management with a focus on discovery support or legal operations
Preferred qualifications:
- Project management certification
- Experience working with SQL/MySQL, relational databases, business intelligence tools, or dashboarding tools to monitor and report on metrics
- Experience utilizing a resourceful approach to anticipate needs and get things done
- Ability to effectively manage complexity and multiple stakeholders
- Ability to see the big picture and make connections with excellent business judgment and strategic thinking skills
- Ability to navigate online electronic discovery (ediscovery) review platforms
About the job
Our Legal team needs more than attorneys to keep things moving. Our Legal Operations team is charged with improving and maintaining the Legal team's internal processes, systems and tools. Responsible for tracking objectives, coordinating financial planning and solving technology challenges, you are entrepreneurial, proactive and highly organized. You keep costs down, engage third-party vendors and make the Legal team's services better, faster and more efficient.
As a Legal Discovery Project Manager for the Discovery and Litigation Support Team, you will play an integral role in supporting Google's Lead and Outside Counsel on litigation and investigations. In this role, you will work directly with technical data exports and support multiple fast-paced matters at once. You will assist in the day-to-day management of Google's data collection, processing, production efforts, as well as serving as a solutions consultant on cross-functional projects. You will work with both internal stakeholders and external vendors, to create and manage the most efficient and cost-effective processes to support Google's responses to legal requests.
In this role, you will be trusted to lead complex and often sensitive cross-departmental strategic initiatives. You will be relied on as a thought partner and solutions-finder, connecting people and issues to drive progress. This is a fast-paced role where you will encounter diverse and interesting challenges.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the project manager on a variety of legal matters, patent and general litigation, internal and regulatory investigations, and competition matters.
- Coordinate activities between in-house counsel, external counsel, and the Operations team responsible for data collection, processing, hosting, and production.
- Support the continuous improvement of discovery workflows and processes.
- Assist in the development of new workflows and related documentation.
