Associate Director - eDiscovery

About the role

As an Associate Director of eDiscovery, you’ll be a strategic and innovative technical leader on Lilly's eDiscovery team, covering the full spectrum of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). You'll help translate legal hold, collection, and production obligations into defensible, auditable, and increasingly automated workflows across Lilly's complex, distributed systems. You'll manage the tools, data flows, and vendor platforms that carry evidence from a live business system all the way through analysis and production. You'll also have real input into which AI and automation tools we adopt next in our eDiscovery workflows.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for Lilly's eDiscovery program and help design the technical specs and SOPs that keep every EDRM stage defensible, efficient, and consistent.
• Share in managing Lilly’s legal hold platform and vendor relationship, balancing daily operational support while driving ongoing technology enhancements to meet evolving needs.
• Partner with business areas to preserve data per legal hold requirements — from enterprise systems and data lakes to system retirements and acquisition integrations — including legal hold system integration and automation.
• Define, automate, and manage data collection from a variety of systems, including various formats and associated metadata along with appropriate chain-of-custody.
• Share in managing eDiscovery data processing, review, and platform-hosting vendor relationships, including oversight of service quality, efficiency, and cost.
• Evaluate and partner with vendors to implement AI and machine learning solutions — technology-assisted review (TAR/CAL), predictive coding, and advanced analytics — always within a framework of sound legal review and defensible process.
• Advise on complex, ambiguous eDiscovery scenarios, sequencing technical execution against matter deadlines and system constraints without compromising quality or defensibility.
• Act as a strategic and technical partner to outside counsel, Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor teammates and collaborate cross-functionally to build technical expertise and flexibility across all EDRM stages.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a discipline related to information systems, computer science, information management, legal studies, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in eDiscovery operations or legal technology, with hands-on experience managing eDiscovery tools and platforms across the EDRM lifecycle.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.

Qualifications

• ACEDS, LegalTech, or similar certification(s).
• PMP certification.
• Experience collecting data from multi-national, multi-system enterprise environments with complex metadata requirements.
• Experience in automation of eDiscovery workflows.
• Direct experience implementing TAR/CAL, predictive coding, or analytics tools in a live litigation review.
• Comfort explaining technical eDiscovery concepts to non-technical senior leaders.

Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k) and pension plan.
• Vacation benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits.
• Flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts).
• Life insurance and death benefits.
• Certain time off and leave of absence benefits.
• Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).
• Company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

Pay

The anticipated wage for this position is $127,500 - $204,600.

Employee Resource Groups

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).