Product Manager
About the role
Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP. The frontier development arm of the leading technology law firm in the world. Our mission is to bring the best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI.
As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Product Manager (“PM”) is responsible for turning operational processes into products. They will own a portfolio of workflows, spanning firm administration, practice operations, or client delivery, with a mandate to transform them from manual, inconsistent, and opaque into instrumented, automated, and measurable, software-enabled processes. Process Cooley Technical Solution Project Managers touch are meant to become a product: designed, shipped, adopted, and continuously improved. This is a shipping role. They will be accountable for product delivery by a dedicated product squad with allocated engineering resources, dedicated budget, and executive sponsorship. They will also partner with software engineering on the how by influencing technical decisions through clear requirements, constraints, discussion, and long-term needs; software engineering owns final technical design and implementation approach. Success is defined by outcomes in production: time saved, quality improved, adoption achieved, insights delivered.
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain and own a product roadmap that maximizes time-to-value, reduces manual effort, and improves quality, with explicit outcome targets (e.g., cycle time, adoption, error rate)
- Prioritize opportunities using a consistent scoring model (impact, volume, reusability, risk, effort) grounded in data and stakeholder input