Beschrijving

Bird & Bird's LegalTech Team mission is to support the strong technology focus of the Firm, provide modern technology to support the business and creative solutions for our Clients.

Bird & Bird's LegalTech Team operates across 33 international offices, and this role reflects that global reach. Our primary hubs for this position are London and Frankfurt, though we welcome candidates based in other Bird & Bird locations. Across whichever office you sit, you will work closely with colleagues internationally, engaging with practice groups, knowledge teams, and business services functions across the network. The LegalTech Product Lead is a new and distinct role within this team, sitting alongside the Business Applications team and focused specifically on ensuring the firm's technology portfolio functions as a coherent whole: well-connected, well-adapted, and continuously improving.

We are a diverse, energised group focused on service, international collaboration, and contribution beyond IT delivery, both internally and externally. We seek people who are keen to engage across the network and make wider contributions than service and delivery alone.

What you'll do

• LegalTech Product & Portfolio Ownership: Own and maintain a prioritised backlog of technology enhancements, integration requirements, and enablement initiatives across the firm's legal technology estate - including platforms such as Legora, HighQ, and other LegalTech solutions - as well as custom-built solutions. Drive adoption strategy and translate business needs into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready work items. The role also benefits from the firm's access to the Microsoft Frontier programme, providing early exposure to cutting-edge AI capabilities and direct engagement with Microsoft's product teams.
• Integration & Connectivity: Contribute to the integration strategy across the LegalTech application landscape - ensuring data flows cleanly between platforms such as Legora, Juristic, Betty Blocks, HighQ, and the wider Microsoft 365 ecosystem, that APIs are well-governed, and that new tools connect smoothly to the core technology stack without creating silos or duplication. Be the person who asks "how does this fit with everything else?" before anything is built or bought.
• Market Intelligence & Adaptation: Stay closely attuned to emerging developments in legal technology and the broader AI market - including shifts in vendor pricing models (e.g. consumption-based pricing), new integration standards, and evolving regulatory expectations - and translate these insights into actionable recommendations that help the firm anticipate change rather than react to it.
• AI Enablement: Support the introduction and optimisation of AI-enabled tools - including large language models, automation workflows, and agentic capabilities - ensuring they are integrated thoughtfully into legal workflows, governed appropriately, and understood by the people using them.
• Vendor Collaboration: Work alongside the Solutions Architects on vendor evaluation, platform configuration decisions, and ongoing SaaS optimisation - ensuring we get the most from existing investments before pursuing new ones.
• Measurement & Continuous Improvement: Define and track KPIs for product adoption, integration quality, and technology value delivery. Use data and user feedback to inform prioritisation and demonstrate outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Governance & Compliance: Collaborate with different stakeholders inside the firm regarding security, data protection, client confidentiality, information governance, and responsible AI standards.

Wat bieden wij

• A close-knit, supportive, and professional team where collaboration is key;
• The option to work in a hybrid setting;
• An attractive benefits package, including a health insurance contribution, ongoing travel insurance, and a solid retirement plan. 

Wat vragen wij

• Product & Delivery Experience: Significant experience in product management, product ownership, technology enablement, or business analysis within a digital or Agile environment. Exposure to SaaS platforms, custom-built solutions, or enterprise technology programmes is valued.
• Integration Mindset: Solid understanding of how applications connect - APIs, MCPs, middleware, data pipelines, and integration patterns - with sufficient technical fluency to partner confidently with engineers and architects without needing to write code yourself.
• Enablement & Change: Demonstrated experience designing and delivering adoption programmes, training, or change management initiatives that meaningfully increase technology usage and user confidence.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to manage diverse stakeholders, align competing priorities, and translate complex technical topics into plain language for senior non-technical audiences - and vice versa.
• AI Familiarity: Exposure to AI-enabled tools, automation platforms, or workflow solutions, with an understanding of how emerging technologies can be introduced responsibly into professional workflows.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to write clear requirements, run effective enablement sessions, and present confidently to partners and senior leadership.
• Legal Domain (Advantage): Familiarity with legal workflows and legal technology platforms - such as document management, knowledge management, contract analysis, or practice management systems. We will actively support the right person to build this knowledge.

The main responsibilities of this role are outlined above; however, this description is not exhaustive, and the job holder may be required to undertake additional duties from time to time to ensure the smooth running of the department. The role may require working outside our normal working hours of 9:00am- 5:15pm due to the inherent global nature of the work.

Over Bird & Bird

Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers and professionals everywhere. Here you can advise major enterprises and high-growth businesses on matters that are often transformative in nature, and alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone at Bird & Bird. We are one international firm, where over 70% of our work involves teams from across our firm. And that is only going to increase. It is this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive, and collaborative place to work.

Diversiteit en Inclusie

At Bird & Bird, we believe having teams with a mix of experiences and perspectives makes us stronger. Therefore, we welcome candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, and work hard to create an environment where everyone is able to do their best work. 

We are also committed to fostering a high-performing workplace where people can grow, develop and make the most of their talents. For those with the right skills and experience, we offer real opportunities to build a long-term career, with flexible ways of working to help people balance their needs.

We are proud to be a disability, neurodiversity and mental health inclusive employer and want to ensure that candidates have a barrier-free recruitment experience. We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need any adjustments during the process, please email us at recruitment@twobirds.com for a confidential chat.