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 vision.
• Clear communication with clients and executives.
• Structure without bureaucracy.
• Urgency without chaos.
• Innovation without losing sight of reliability and defensibility.

Benefits

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Pay

The compensation range for this role is $230,000 to $270,000 annually, with the possibility of an annual bonus. The exact salary will be determined based on several factors, including location-based market rate for the role, your abilities in relation to the job specification, performance during screening and interview, and pay parity with the wider team in the considered location.

Schedule

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