Senior eDiscovery Project Lead | Relativity AIR (Hybrid)

HKA; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

HKA seeks an experienced eDiscovery Project Manager to independently lead complex matters in a client-facing consulting environment. You will own matters from scoping to closeout, collaborating with counsel and senior stakeholders to ensure accurate productions and defensible workflows.

Join a hands-on role combining technical delivery, project coordination, and practical guidance, with opportunities to influence how matters are run and to grow within a global organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of eDiscovery experience with independent ownership of complex matters or major workstreams.
• 2+ years of client-facing consulting experience with attorneys, clients, and senior stakeholders.
• Deep, hands-on Relativity aiR (RelativityOne) experience across workspace administration, searches, review workflows, analytics, exports, productions, and troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to translate counsel instructions into accurate, defensible productions with documented quality control and approval steps.
• Strong knowledge of the eDiscovery lifecycle, ESI, processing, review, metadata, privilege, production formats, and chain of custody.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead eDiscovery matters from scoping and data identification through processing, review, production, and closeout.
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Relativity aiR workspaces, including permissions, searches, analytics, review workflows, exports, productions, and quality-control processes.
• Respond to frequent attorney and client requests, prioritize competing needs, and maintain continuity so work can be handed off without loss of context.
• Translate legal instructions, ESI protocols, and production requirements into defensible searches, workflows, specifications, and deliverables.
• Manage production workflows with attention to scope, format, metadata, privilege, confidentiality, and counsel approval before release.
• Create and maintain project plans, budgets, schedules, trackers, process notes, decision logs, production specifications, and quality-control records.
• Identify risks, scope changes, data gaps, and potential errors early; communicate them clearly and elevate material issues appropriately.
• Lead client calls, clarify requirements, explain technical processes in practical terms, and provide status updates and recommendations.
• Coordinate attorneys, clients, analysts, reviewers, technical professionals, and vendors across multiple concurrent matters.
• Provide direction and quality review to analysts, consultants, and reviewers while helping less-experienced team members plug into active matters.

Skills

eDiscovery

Client-facing consulting

Relativity aiR

Searches & analytics

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Relativity aiR

RelativityOne

Job description

HKA seeks an experienced eDiscovery Project Manager to independently lead complex matters in a client-facing consulting environment. You will own matters from scoping to closeout, collaborating with counsel and senior stakeholders to ensure accurate productions and defensible workflows.

Join a hands-on role combining technical delivery, project coordination, and practical guidance, with opportunities to influence how matters are run and to grow within a global organization.