Chief Experience Officer
What you’ll do
Learn first. Then lead. Build trust-based relationships with executive leaders, attorneys, department heads, and frontline teams. Develop a deep understanding of firm workflows, operational constraints, client expectations, and ethical responsibilities before recommending change.
Assess how work moves across the firm and where breakdowns impact clients, teammates, or outcomes. Own the client journey. Map the client experience from first contact through resolution and post-case follow-up. Identify key moments that shape trust, clarity, confidence, and perceived value.
- Partner with legal, operational, and client-facing teams to improve experience within existing workflows — not by layering on unnecessary process.
- Surface pain points, bottlenecks, and service gaps, then build practical, scalable solutions.
- Improve communication and transparency during critical stages including treatment support, case progression, settlement, and disbursement.
- Lead client listening efforts including feedback sessions, surveys, and experience reviews.
- Develop and manage a referral partner advisory approach that strengthens relationships and improves referral quality.
- Shape employee experience. Conduct a ground-up assessment of employee workflow friction, communication gaps, and experience barriers. Partner with Talent and leadership to improve clarity, engagement, communication, and professional development.
- Build systems that help employees deliver exceptional client outcomes with less friction.
What success looks like
- Measurable improvements in areas such as: Client satisfaction across key touch points
- Stronger settlement and disbursement experiences
- Better referral partner engagement and retention
- Reduced operational bottlenecks across teams
- Improved employee engagement, retention, and cross-team alignment
- Experience-driven business impact through stronger trust, better communication, and scalable systems
What we’re looking for
- Significant leadership experience in client experience, customer success, service operations, or related executive roles
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional strategy and influence without creating disruption for disruption’s sake
- Strong operational judgment — able to understand how the organization functions before proposing solutions
- Experience building scalable experience programs, feedback systems, and measurable improvement initiatives
- Strong executive presence, communication skills, and relationship-building ability
- Expert at working with data, experience metrics, and operational performance indicators
Legal industry experience is highly valued; professional services, healthcare, or other high-touch complex service environments also strongly considered
The kind of leader who will thrive here
- You are curious before decisive.
- You ask questions before prescribing answers.
- You know that trust is built by understanding how work really gets done.
- You can move between strategy and execution.
- You know how to unite teams, not just redesign processes.
- Most importantly: you understand that in a law firm, client experience is inseparable from ethics, judgment, and the responsibility we carry for the people we serve.
Location note
Candidate can sit anywhere on the East Coast, ideally within close proximity to a major airport. You will travel ~50-75% of the time initially as you learn and get integrated. Once settled, 50% or less, with monthly onsite meetings, and quarterly planning meetings at HQ in Charleston, SC.