Senior Legal Technology Manager

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

• Innovation strategy delivery – Support the Head of Innovation 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.

Skills & Attributes

• 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.

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.

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