Cyber eDiscovery Lead — Incident Response & Review

Cognicion; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognicion LLC is seeking a skilled Team Lead to support post-cyber incident response matters by leading review teams, executing established workflows, and maintaining project documentation. This role offers growth toward the Cyber Consultant position with increasing responsibilities.

You will collaborate with the Cyber Services team to provide operational and technical support throughout the project lifecycle, guiding reviewers, refining workflows, and ensuring high-quality client deliverables.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in litigation document review, managed review, eDiscovery, cyber incident response review, or related legal-data environment.
• Experience leading or supporting document-review teams, including reviewer guidance, workflow coordination, performance monitoring, and QC.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret detailed protocols, identify sensitive information accurately, exercise sound judgment, and escalate issues appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Assists with cyber incident response projects and provides day-to-day operational and technical support to the CIR team.
• Collaborates with CIR team members and managers to execute established workflows, including document analysis, sensitive-data identification, review, quality control, and notification reporting.
• Serves as a primary point of contact for assigned review teams, providing project-specific guidance, answering workflow questions, and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Assists with reviewer onboarding and project-specific training and communicates updates to review protocols, workflows, and quality expectations.
• Executes and monitors established review and quality-control workflows and, with guidance, helps refine them to improve efficiency, quality, and profitability.
• Monitors reviewer productivity, quality, staffing needs, and adherence to project guidance; provides feedback and recommendations to the CIR team.
• Supports project intake, triage, culling, entity creation, notification-list preparation, and reporting throughout the cyber project lifecycle.
• Prepares and maintains status reports, decision logs, reviewer guidance, metrics, and other project documentation.
• Prepares and validates structured data, spreadsheets, metadata overlays, and client-ready deliverables using established procedures and under the direction of the CIR team.
• Identifies and escalates project risks, workflow issues, quality concerns, and schedule impacts.
• Troubleshoots routine platform, workflow, and access issues and coordinates or escalates support requests as necessary.
• Adheres to data-security, confidentiality, chain-of-custody, and project-specific information-handling requirements.
• Assumes responsibility for assigned project workstreams, including review oversight, quality control, reporting, notification-list preparation, and workflow execution, with increasing independence as proficiency is demonstrated.
• Participates in internal and client-facing discussions and assists with status updates and communication of review and technical findings under the direction of the CIR team.

Skills

Team leadership

Review workflows

Quality control

Tools

Relativity

4iG

Canopy

Job description

Cognicion LLC is seeking a skilled Team Lead to support post-cyber incident response matters by leading review teams, executing established workflows, and maintaining project documentation. This role offers growth toward the Cyber Consultant position with increasing responsibilities.

You will collaborate with the Cyber Services team to provide operational and technical support throughout the project lifecycle, guiding reviewers, refining workflows, and ensuring high-quality client deliverables.