Product Support Specialist

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. Its mission is to bring best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead the firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI. The Product Support Specialist will perform first-level support and product management functions for online service offerings, working directly with firm practitioners across offices and practice areas, the Practice Engineering team, and other technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Track and manage internal and third-party application development or systems infrastructure change requests, including the related budgeting process
• Interact with outside developers, clients and their teams of attorneys, business professionals and Practice Engineering team members to help them with questions regarding use of the platform
• Assist in onboarding and provide ongoing support with other team members to effectively and efficiently solve users’ issues
• Understand user pain points, clearly communicate their concerns internally and help influence product decisions that will create a better user experience
• Help develop and implement a customer success plan to better serve users at scale which might include knowledge, training, marketing, and customer success tactics
• Create and maintain project planning documentation, including business end-user requirements, user and administrative workflows, key performance indicators and quality assurance procedures
• Assist with coordination of training, support, documentation and resource material in support of processes and systems
• Perform other duties as assigned or required

Required Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications (after orientation at Cooley LLP)
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years direct applicable experience (e.g., engaging with end-users to provide support of online services, including troubleshooting, and capturing feedback and observations about end-user behaviors that might inform future product development or support documentation and processes); senior candidates considered with 5+ years directly related experience
• Experience giving product presentations and demonstrations to small groups (1‑5 people)
• Experience managing software development projects, in particular issue and new feature development tracking, with internal and third‑party engineers and developers

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Intercom (or similar ticketing systems), kanban boards, and wiki tools
• Familiarity with project management processes, especially those related to application development
• Awareness of the capabilities of web technologies generally, especially HTML, CSS, and Python
• Experience working in a legal services environment with preference to experience in an AMLAW 200 law firm or in‑house legal department with greater than 50 attorneys

Competencies