Associate Director - eDiscovery

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 128,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, IN, seeks an Associate Director of eDiscovery to lead strategic and technical efforts across the EDRM lifecycle. You will translate legal holds, collection, and production obligations into defensible, auditable workflows while shaping automation choices across Lilly's distributed systems.

You will manage legal hold platforms, vendor relationships, data preservation, data collection, processing, review, and platform hosting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in eDiscovery operations or legal technology.
• Hands-on experience managing eDiscovery tools and platforms across the EDRM lifecycle.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; Lilly will not sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for Lilly's eDiscovery program and design technical specs and SOPs.
• Manage Lilly’s legal hold platform and vendor relationships, balancing daily support with tech enhancements.
• Partner with business areas to preserve data per legal hold requirements across enterprise systems and data lakes.
• Define, automate, and manage data collection from diverse systems with proper metadata and chain-of-custody.
• Oversee eDiscovery data processing, review, and vendor relationships for quality and cost.
• Evaluate and partner with vendors to implement AI and ML solutions within defensible processes.
• Advise on complex eDiscovery scenarios, sequencing tasks to meet deadlines without compromising quality.
• Collaborate with outside counsel, Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and stakeholders.
• Mentor teammates and build cross-functional technical expertise across EDRM stages.

Skills

ACEDS certification

PMP certification

Experience in eDiscovery automation

Explain technical concepts to seniorLe

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems / related field

Tools

eDiscovery platforms

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Associate Director, eDiscovery

As an Associate Director of eDiscovery, you’ll be a strategic and innovative technical leader on Lilly's eDiscovery team, covering the full spectrum of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).

You'll help translate legal hold, collection, and production obligations into defensible, auditable, and increasingly automated workflows across Lilly's complex, distributed systems. You'll manage the tools, data flows, and vendor platforms that carry evidence from a live business system all the way through analysis and production.

You'll also have real input into which AI and automation tools we adopt next in our eDiscovery workflows.

What You'll Actually Do

• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for Lilly's eDiscovery program and help design the technical specs and SOPs that keep every EDRM stage defensible, efficient, and consistent.
• Share in managing Lilly’s legal hold platform and vendor relationship, balancing daily operational support while driving ongoing technology enhancements to meet evolving needs.
• Partner with business areas to preserve data per legal hold requirements — from enterprise systems and data lakes to system retirements and acquisition integrations — including legal hold system integration and automation.
• Define, automate, and manage data collection from a variety of systems, including various formats and associated metadata along with appropriate chain-of-custody.
• Share in managing eDiscovery data processing, review, and platform-hosting vendor relationships, including oversight of service quality, efficiency, and cost.
• Evaluate and partner with vendors to implement AI and machine learning solutions — technology-assisted review (TAR/CAL), predictive coding, and advanced analytics — always within a framework of sound legal review and defensible process.
• Advise on complex, ambiguous eDiscovery scenarios, sequencing technical execution against matter deadlines and system constraints without compromising quality or defensibility.
• Act as a strategic and technical partner to outside counsel, Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor teammates and collaborate cross-functionally to build technical expertise and flexibility across all EDRM stages.

What You'll Need (minimum Requirements)

Bachelor's degree in a discipline related to information systems, computer science, information management, legal studies, or a related field.

6+ years of experience in eDiscovery operations or legal technology, with hands‑on experience managing eDiscovery tools and platforms across the EDRM lifecycle.

Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

What Sets a Strong Candidate Apart

• ACEDS, LegalTech, or similar certification(s).
• PMP certification.
• Experience collecting data from multi‑national, multi‑system enterprise environments with complex metadata requirements.
• Experience in automation of eDiscovery workflows.
• Direct experience implementing TAR/CAL, predictive coding, or analytics tools in a live litigation review.
• Comfort explaining technical eDiscovery concepts to non‑technical senior leaders.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$127,500 - $204,600

Full‑time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well‑being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities). Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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