Innovation & Transformation Lead — Practice Engagement

Proskauer Rose LLP; New York (NY); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Proskauer Rose LLP in New York seeks an Innovation & Transformation Specialist (Practice Engagement) to partner with lawyers to deliver governance, adoption, and measurable change across practices and regions.

You will surface opportunities in legal technology, process improvement, and new ways of working, shape demand into defined opportunities, and drive adoption through training and day-to-day enablement. This role requires regular office presence.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a law firm, professional services environment, or client services supporting lawyers.
• Familiarity with the legal practice environment, ideally including exposure to funds, corporate, or transactional practice, and an interest in how legal services are delivered, transformed, and improved.
• Interest in and awareness of legal technology, generative AI, process improvement, and how these are changing how legal services are delivered.
• Self-starter who is organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable multi-tasking and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed function, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and absolute discretion when dealing with confidential matters.

Aufgaben

• Support the practice-facing work of Innovation & Transformation, engaging lawyers to understand how they deliver legal services and surface opportunities across legal technology, process improvement, and operational excellence.
• Help shape demand, framing lawyer ideas, pain points, and requests into well-defined opportunities that can be triaged and routed into the function's intake.
• Contribute to legal service transformation initiatives by supporting the redesign of workflows, matter delivery models, and ways of working alongside lawyers and colleagues across the function.
• Drive practice-facing adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working through training, 1:1 support, embedding into matter workflows, and supporting lawyers through behavioral change.
• Support the practice-facing work of pilots, including user recruitment, stakeholder communication, on-the-ground engagement, and feedback capture.
• Contribute to the firm's approach to responsible use of AI in legal practice by supporting rollout, adoption, feedback capture, and day-to-day enablement with lawyers in the assigned scope.
• Support the practice-facing component of client engagement, contributing to client-facing materials, showcases, and conversations that reflect the firm's innovation and transformation work.
• Contribute market, peer, and competitive insight into the practice's context to help inform strategy, portfolio direction, and lawyer conversations.
• Capture lawyer feedback, adoption signals, and improvement opportunities from practice engagement, feeding these into the function's measurement, prioritization, and product lifecycle work.
• Working flexibly across the function to support firm priorities as they emerge, providing cover and clean handovers for teammates, and responding promptly to inbound requests, escalating where a decision is required at a more senior level.

Kenntnisse

Stakeholder engagement

Training & enablement

Process improvement

Organizational skills

Written & verbal communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Legal technology

Generative AI

Document automation

Collaboration platforms

Jobbeschreibung

Proskauer Rose LLP in New York seeks an Innovation & Transformation Specialist (Practice Engagement) to partner with lawyers to deliver governance, adoption, and measurable change across practices and regions.

You will surface opportunities in legal technology, process improvement, and new ways of working, shape demand into defined opportunities, and drive adoption through training and day-to-day enablement. This role requires regular office presence.