Harcourt Matthews
Legal Technology Manager
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Legal Technology Manager
Location: London
Salary: £95,000 - £115,000 + Bonus & benefits
The organisation is a leading professional services firm with a strong commitment to innovation, technology adoption, and client excellence. The role sits within the London-based Innovation team in the Commercial department and supports firmwide strategic priorities. This position plays a central role in shaping innovation initiatives, legal technology adoption, and client-facing programmes.
They are currently seeking a Legal Technology Manager to support the delivery of major client matters and drive operational excellence across the firm.
Key Responsibilities of the Legal Technology Manager
- Innovation strategy delivery - Support the Head of LegalTech in developing and delivering the firm’s innovation strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- Legal technology and AI adoption - Lead the assessment, implementation, and adoption of legal technology and generative AI tools, including training, communications, and success measurement.
- Programme and project management - Manage multiple innovation projects simultaneously, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Stakeholder and client engagement - Build and maintain strong relationships with partners, internal teams, clients, and external vendors to support collaboration and innovation initiatives.
- Culture, training, and team leadership - Promote a culture of innovation, deliver training across the firm, and manage and develop members of the Innovation team.
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Skills & Attributes of the Legal Technology Manager
- Legal innovation expertise - Proven experience delivering legal technology initiatives, process improvement projects, and client-facing innovation programmes.
- Technology and AI knowledge - Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies relevant to the legal sector, with high digital capability.
- Communication and stakeholder skills - Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels.
- Leadership and resilience - Demonstrated ability to lead and develop people, manage competing priorities, maintain professionalism, and adapt positively to change.
- Legal services experience - At least five years’ experience, ideally within a large or City law firm, or professional services business, with a strong understanding of legal workflows.
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Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction.
Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions.
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