Vice President of Product Development

About the role

Epiq is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead our global engineering organization responsible for core eDiscovery platform capabilities. This role requires strong execution, sound judgment, and the ability to drive change in a complex environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop distributed engineering teams across application development, data engineering, QE, DevOps, architecture, and platform services.
• Own engineering execution for core eDiscovery workflows, including processing, indexing, search, review, production, analytics, and reporting.
• Drive platform modernization, including APIs, data models, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, and performance engineering.
• Partner with Product to translate roadmap priorities into realistic delivery plans.
• Closely work with Operations and Client Success to reduce client-impacting issues and improve platform usability.
• Establish clear engineering metrics around delivery, quality, uptime, performance, incidents, and defect trends.
• Manage technical debt with discipline, balancing client commitments with long-term platform health.
• Support the introduction of AI and advanced analytics into legal workflows with appropriate controls around auditability, security, and human oversight.
• Build an engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and practical problem solving.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including senior leadership responsibility for enterprise or SaaS platforms.
• Proven experience leading distributed engineering teams.
• Strong background in data-intensive platforms, workflow systems, search, document management, or enterprise software.
• Experience modernizing complex platforms without disrupting existing clients.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, APIs, data pipelines, DevOps, automated testing, and production operations.
• Ability to work across Product, Operations, Security, Finance, Sales, and Client Success.
• Comfortable making tradeoffs and communicating clearly with executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in eDiscovery, legal technology, litigation support, investigations, compliance, or document review.
• Familiarity with Relativity, Reveal, Nuix, Everlaw, DISCO, Exterro, OpenText, or similar platforms.
• Experience with large-scale document processing, OCR, email threading, deduplication, metadata extraction, productions, or review workflows.
• Experience deploying AI, machine learning, or LLM-based capabilities into enterprise workflows.
• Experience operating in regulated environments with SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, GDPR, or similar controls.

Skills

• Technical credibility.
• Commercial awareness.
• Operational discipline.
• Strategic thinking.
• Customer-first mindset.
• Strategic partnerships.
• Market trend alignment.
• Innovation through curiosity and smart risk-taking.
• Employee engagement and talent pipeline building.
• Trust-based partnerships and cross-team success.

Benefits

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Pay

The compensation range for this role is $230,000 to $270,000 annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.

Schedule

Details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.