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About the Role

Lead strategic business transformation initiatives to enhance practice management and operational excellence. Drive cross-functional projects using data analysis and insights into AI's impact on legal services. Act as an internal consultant to the practice management team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with practice management leadership and internal stakeholders to solve business challenges, refine organizational processes, and advance strategic and operational priorities.
• Lead transformation initiatives from strategy through execution, including those adapting to AI and other emerging technologies.
• Analyze how AI and emerging technologies influence legal service delivery and translate insights into opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with leadership to define, develop, and drive the transformation roadmap with clear objectives and outcomes.
• Support leadership in optimizing organizational structures, resource allocation, and modernizing operations.
• Design and implement frameworks to track performance and measure initiative impact.
• Support practice leaders in annual strategic planning and operations-related special projects.
• Conduct analysis to identify growth opportunities and anticipate risks, providing actionable insights.
• Partner with practice managers to implement strategic initiatives and support change management.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to leadership, ensuring alignment and informing decision-making.
• Build strong relationships with practice leaders, attorneys, and stakeholders to promote collaboration.
• Serve as a central point of coordination for key initiatives, facilitating adoption of new processes and cultural changes.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Monitor industry trends, including AI and emerging technologies, to inform transformation roadmaps and align with market demands.

Requirements

• Commitment to confidentiality, professionalism, and firm values of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across levels and functions.
• High degree of initiative and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and make decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, detail-oriented environment.
• Creative thinker open to multiple approaches and collaborative plan development.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Highly motivated with a strategic focus.
• Ability to understand and support firm goals, services, culture, and strategy.
• Understands and stays up-to-date on current legal market trends, news, and innovations, including AI and emerging technologies.
• Interest in and awareness of how AI and emerging technologies shape legal service delivery.
• Familiarity with legal project management concepts.
• Ability to work independently to solve problems involving technical issues and coordination with various stakeholders.

Skills

• Strategic business transformation
• Practice management
• Operational excellence
• Internal consulting
• Data analysis
• AI and emerging technologies
• Cross-functional project leadership
• Change management
• Performance tracking and measurement
• Strategic planning
• Risk assessment
• Innovation identification
• Process improvement
• Communication
• Facilitation
• Interpersonal skills
• Critical thinking
• Independent judgment
• Project management
• Organizational skills
• Legal project management

Location

• Any U.S. office

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior Manager
• Minimum 5-7 years’ experience at a law firm and/or professional services organization in a similar role.
• Proven track record in project management, practice management, legal project management, business development, or legal operations.

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree required
• MBA, or equivalent preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $250,000 - $290,000

Benefits

• Health care
• Retirement benefits
• Paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time
• Parental leave
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Discretionary, performance-based bonuses

About the Company

• Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.
• We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.
• The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Equal Opportunity

• Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.
• Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.
• We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.
• The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.