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Barclays · 2 weeks ago

Legal Technologist - VP

Whippany, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$155K/yr - $225K/yr

Barclays is seeking a Legal Technologist - VP to lead the adoption of legal technology and GenAI solutions to modernize legal operations. The role involves partnering with legal, technology, and business teams to translate complex workflows into scalable solutions, enhancing efficiency and user experience across the organization.

BankingConsumerFinancial ServicesWholesale

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead implementation of legal technology platforms such as workflow automation and document management

Partner with legal, technology, and business stakeholders to define requirements

Identify and deploy automation and GenAI solutions to reduce manual work and improve efficiency

Develop standardized workflows, playbooks, and best practices for legal processes

Drive change management, training, and user adoption initiatives

Analyze usage metrics and data to measure value and support continuous improvement

Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely and compliant delivery

Apply legal operations and legal technology expertise within regulated environments

Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation

Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives

Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met

Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU

Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed

Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies

Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans

Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change

If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard

OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment

Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda

Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does

Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies

Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives

Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes

Qualification

Legal technology platformsLegal operations experienceGenAI solutionsChange managementWorkflow automationDocument managementStakeholder engagementData analysisTrainingUser adoptionBusiness acumenStrategic thinking

Required

Lead implementation of legal technology platforms such as workflow automation and document management

Experience as a practicing lawyer with extensive experience of using Legal Tech tools on matters would be preferable. Alternatively, product management experience with Legal Tech tools at a law firm

Experience in a legal operations, legal technology, or innovation role within a law firm or in-house legal team