Legal Tech & AI Transformation Lead

Ciena Corporation; Scaggsville (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(k) and ESPP

Employee Assistance Program

Paid holidays, sick leave and vacation

Paid family leave

Job summary

Ciena seeks a Legal Technology Project Manager to lead the product roadmap for the Legal tech portfolio. You will partner with Legal, IT, and business stakeholders to define strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable outcomes, including contract data governance and AI-enabled workflows.

In this role, you will drive transformation, optimize processes, and expand self-service while ensuring alignment with senior leadership and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Project Management, Product Management, or related roles.
• Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, or Procurement.
• Experience owning roadmaps and prioritization processes.
• Ability to lead enterprise process transformations and deliver improvements.
• Experience gathering business requirements into backlogs and plans.

Responsibilities

• Own the Legal technology product roadmap and align with Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and IT stakeholders.
• Translate objectives into product strategies and delivery plans as the liaison between Legal and IT.
• Manage and prioritize the Legal product backlog to yield measurable value.
• Lead transformation initiatives such as Legal intake modernization and contract data governance.
• Drive AI and automation adoption to improve productivity and self-service across Legal processes.
• Identify opportunities with Legal leadership for standardization and digitization.
• Define success metrics and KPIs to measure product performance and adoption.

Skills

Project management

Product management

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile / hybrid delivery

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Power Platform

Power BI

Copilot

Job description

Ciena seeks a Legal Technology Project Manager to lead the product roadmap for the Legal tech portfolio. You will partner with Legal, IT, and business stakeholders to define strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable outcomes, including contract data governance and AI-enabled workflows.

In this role, you will drive transformation, optimize processes, and expand self-service while ensuring alignment with senior leadership and regulatory requirements.