Remote Legal Project Manager - AI-Driven Ops & Data

Sterlington, PLLC; Manila; On-site; PHP 6,379,000 - 10,024,000; Full time

Job summary

Sterlington, PLLC is a remote-first law firm delivering complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth work. We seek a Legal Project Manager to own end-to-end matter lifecycle processes, onboarding, and cross-functional coordination within a global Legal Operations function.

You will design AI-enabled workflows, maintain clean data, and report insights to improve capacity and referrals.

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination, ideally within a law firm, professional services, or Legal Operations environment
• Working literacy in the matter lifecycle — how matters open, staff, progress, and close — even if you haven't run one yourself
• Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable being the point of contact between a specialist function and the rest of the business
• Enough functional literacy in Finance, Business Development/Marketing, and IT to coordinate effectively with each — you don't need to do their jobs, but you need to speak their language
• Strong written communication; able to translate between functions clearly and without losing nuance
• Comfortable with data and dashboards — capacity analytics, cross-referencing, and pattern recognition across matters
• Experience with practice management, billing, or knowledge management systems, or evidence you've learned a comparable system quickly
• Excellent organizational skills; able to track multiple workstreams and sign-off chains without dropping detail
• Non-negotiable: ownership — the instinct to chase an open item to completion rather than wait for someone else to close it
• Comfortable working to defined service standards and deadlines in a remote, cross-time-zone environment

Responsibilities

• The matter lifecycle, end to end. Opening, staffing, key milestones, status reporting and closing. Records that are accurate and current because you keep them that way, not because someone audits them.
• Partner onboarding. Every workstream for an incoming partner and their team: systems access, conflicts, files, billing setup. Tracked to done.
• The cross-functional interface. Routing requests to the right owner, translating between functions, and keeping initiatives moving without executing the specialist work yourself.
• AI-assisted workflow design. Design and run AI-assisted workflows around the matter lifecycle, and balance AI outputs with lawyer review.
• The function’s operating data. Keep matter and capacity data clean, maintain reporting, and flag patterns like pressure points and capacity issues.

Job description

Sterlington, PLLC is a remote-first law firm delivering complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth work. We seek a Legal Project Manager to own end-to-end matter lifecycle processes, onboarding, and cross-functional coordination within a global Legal Operations function.

You will design AI-enabled workflows, maintain clean data, and report insights to improve capacity and referrals.