Innovation Project Manager

We are recruiting for an Innovation Project Manager to join our FutureLaw team.  

Ongoing expansion has created a new opportunity for an experienced project manager ideally within the Innovation, Legal Tech and/or AI space to join our Legal Technology team. This is a collaborative role to drive innovation firmwide for both our internal and external clients. You will lead the delivery of projects alongside upskilling and empowering colleagues to utilise TLTs new products and solutions.  

Your Role  

As an Innovation Project Manager you will:  

• Work directly with our legal technology team and internal clients on the development of pilots, trials, project plans, pricing, budgets, timelines and documentation of our tech projects.   
• Manage projects to help deliver work on time, on budget and within scope, managing scope and cost creep and engaging with key stakeholders (to include vendors, clients and other colleagues) to deliver each project as required.  
• Work closely with the legal technologists, senior legal technologists and senior operation manager to deliver projects and help upskill people throughout the firm with new products and deployments.  
• Lead on client and stakeholder engagement of legal tech products and services throughout the firm.  
• Assist the legal technology team to develop and review our innovative legal technology deployments. 
• Producing lessons learned and benefits realisation reports post project deployment. 
• Curating additional tech project documentation as part of our centre of excellence hub.  
• Liaising with vendors to ensure the smooth pilot and onboarding of a product.  
• Writing and supporting business cases for new legal technology projects. 
• Liaising with the IT team where new projects require technology implementation. 
• Working alongside internal project teams and external consultants regarding new Generative AI technology. 
• Working with the broader business to drive Generative AI product usage to the firm. 
• Be an advocate for the FutureLaw team both inside and outside the firm. 
• This is a hybrid working role with occasional travel to other TLT or client offices.  

Your Skills and Experience  

• Practitioner Project Management qualification (our preference is APM). 
• Min 3 years working in a project manager role. 
• End to end experience of a variety of different tech projects including software and service procurement and implementation, software development, business process review and transformation projects.  
• Exceptional project management, time management skills and the ability to deliver under pressure. 
• Experience working with a range of legal tech tools is highly desirable, especially any experience of GenAI products. 
• Strong analytical and project management skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret the client's business needs and translate them into business/operational requirements.  
• A proven ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.  
• Excellent communication and motivation skills with an ability to engage with stakeholders throughout the business at all levels and across legal teams and business services.  
• Experience in managing projects using established project management methodologies.  
• A creative approach to problem solving with an ability to manage critical issues quickly and effectively.  
• An interest in innovation and technology and be open to new ideas. 
• Able to understand high performance business environments and deal competently and diplomatically with lawyers and business services professionals of all levels. 
• Ability to facilitate and lead project sessions with clients, internal teams and senior stakeholders. 
• Experience of working in the legal sector, or professional services environment within a project management team.  
• Knowledge of technology and IT literate including MS Office and excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Projects and Monday.com would be an advantage. 

Your Team  

Clients are increasingly working with law firms based on how they deliver– combining people, process, technology and non-legal expertise – and not just because of a firm's legal services alone. Our expert team of Legal Technologists help us go beyond these expectations. Working side-by-side with our clients, they design, develop and deliver solutions in partnership with our legal experts and business services teams. Whether it’s high volumes of traditional legal work or we’re helping clients respond to a critical project, the Legal Technology team makes sure we give our clients choice, providing innovative and flexible solutions alongside consistently high service.  

About TLT  

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.  

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.  

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.  

Our Benefits  

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.  

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.  

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.  

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLTsolicitors.com