Senior eDiscovery & AI Paralegal — Impact-Driven

Ultragenyx; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Wellbeing benefits

Fitness reimbursement

Tuition sponsoring

Professional development plans

Job summary

Ultragenyx in Miami, FL seeks a Senior Litigation Paralegal, eDiscovery & AI to provide sophisticated operational support for the litigation portfolio. You will manage holds, preserve data, oversee vendors, budgets, and productions, and evaluate AI-enabled eDiscovery tools with scalable workflows.

The role features a hybrid model with onsite and remote work options, and may involve occasional travel. Experience with AI-enabled workflows and biotechnology context is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; paralegal certificate preferred.
• 8+ years of paralegal, litigation-support, or related experience, including at least 4 years of direct eDiscovery experience.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview or a similar preservation and collection platform required.
• Strong knowledge of the eDiscovery lifecycle: identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, and production.
• Experience with managing legal holds, complex document collections, eDiscovery vendors, budgets, invoices, and concurrent litigation matters.
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled eDiscovery, document-review, case-analysis, and legal-workflow tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the legal-hold lifecycle, including drafting and issuing notices, maintaining custodian and matter records, tracking acknowledgments, sending reminders, conducting periodic reviews, and releasing holds.
• Coordinate defensible preservation and collection of electronically stored information, including custodian interviews to identify data sources and using Microsoft Purview or similar platforms.
• Partner with IT, Security, business stakeholders, outside counsel, and vendors to identify custodians, systems, data sources, and appropriate collection methods.
• Manage eDiscovery projects across multiple matters, including data collection, processing, review coordination, productions, timelines, quality control, and documentation.
• Evaluate eDiscovery vendors and manage vendor performance, budgets, invoices, timelines, and service delivery while coordinating with law firms using their preferred review platforms.
• Maintain accurate case trackers, chronologies, discovery metrics, production records, deadlines, budgets, and status reports.
• Develop and maintain consistent processes, playbooks, and documentation for legal holds, collections, productions, and eDiscovery vendor management.
• Evaluate legal-hold software and lead implementation if Ultragenyx selects a dedicated platform.
• Evaluate AI-enabled eDiscovery tools and develop repeatable internal AI workflows that improve efficiency while protecting confidentiality, privilege, and information security.
• Support deposition preparation and occasionally attend witness interviews, depositions, hearings, and trials.

Skills

Paralegal experience

eDiscovery

AI-enabled tools

Vendor management

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Paralegal certificate

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Relativity aiR

Everlaw AI

DISCO Cecilia AI

CoCounsel

Job description

Ultragenyx in Miami, FL seeks a Senior Litigation Paralegal, eDiscovery & AI to provide sophisticated operational support for the litigation portfolio. You will manage holds, preserve data, oversee vendors, budgets, and productions, and evaluate AI-enabled eDiscovery tools with scalable workflows.

The role features a hybrid model with onsite and remote work options, and may involve occasional travel. Experience with AI-enabled workflows and biotechnology context is a plus.