Platform PM – Legal Docs & Semantic Search

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is hiring a Product Manager for a new legal technology team. You will own the infrastructure for storing, organizing, and retrieving documents and metadata, enabling reliable legal workflows and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will partner with attorneys, engineers and product colleagues to turn complex retrieval needs into a roadmap and guide initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration. The role blends platform strategy with document systems and legal operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 5–10 years in product management.
• Experience partnering with software engineers on technically complex products.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to handle open-ended problems.
• Background in platform, infrastructure, data, search, or document-centric products.

Responsibilities

• Define the infrastructure roadmap for document storage, metadata architecture and scalable information access.
• Translate legal and business pain points into clear technical requirements and priorities.
• Shape infrastructure for semantic search, deterministic clause retrieval and relational metadata.
• Work with AI engineers to select appropriate retrieval approaches for different legal use cases.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives through the full product lifecycle, defining scope, dependencies and success measures.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Content-management systems

Job description

Referment is hiring a Product Manager for a new legal technology team. You will own the infrastructure for storing, organizing, and retrieving documents and metadata, enabling reliable legal workflows and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will partner with attorneys, engineers and product colleagues to turn complex retrieval needs into a roadmap and guide initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration. The role blends platform strategy with document systems and legal operations.