Innovation Attorney - Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Defining and managing the product vision, roadmap, release priorities, adoption strategy, and success metrics, aligning delivery with firm strategy, attorney needs, AI governance requirements, and operational priorities
• Translating practice group, attorney, and legal operations needs into product requirements, user stories, feature requests, prompt and workflow design considerations, and prioritization decisions
• Leading pilots, proof-of-concept initiatives, feature testing, controlled releases, and practice group use case evaluations, including defining success criteria, gathering feedback, assessing outcomes, and supporting go/no-go decisions
• Serving as the primary product contact and decision-maker for assigned legal AI applications, coordinating scope, sequencing, tradeoffs, and priorities across attorneys, practice groups, Innovation, Technology & Information Services, AI governance, and external vendors
• Maintaining active relationships with third-party AI application vendors, monitoring roadmap developments, product releases, known issues, feature changes, performance trends, and platform limitations to ensure solutions evolve in line with firm needs

Qualifications

• Possess a strong understanding of legal AI applications, generative AI platforms, legal technology categories, vendor ecosystems, and emerging AI-enabled legal workflows
• Demonstrate product ownership and product management skills, including requirements development, user stories, scoping, prioritization, roadmap planning, release management, feedback triage, user testing, and UI/UX awareness
• Show strong strategic project management capabilities, including business case development, adoption planning, value realization, ROI analysis, and delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives