Senior Product Manager - Legal Technology

What you'll do day-to-day

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for attorney-facing systems, partnering with legal, engineering, UX, and AI teams to deliver workflow improvements that reduce friction in document-heavy processes.
• Establish the operating model for how Legal Technology builds and ships products globally, including a design-first development approach, structured prioritization practices, and close coordination between U.S. and India-based teams.
• Partner directly with senior legal clients to translate complex operational needs into clear product direction, ensuring leadership engagement at key decision points.
• Lead buy-vs.-build evaluations for key systems, analyzing where internal builds offer a clear advantage and where the external market is stronger.
• Collaborate with AI and engineering teams to identify where AI-assisted features can meaningfully reduce manual effort.
• Build product management discipline within Legal Technology-including prioritization frameworks, backlog management, release planning, and cross-functional coordination-with the opportunity to manage and mentor other PMs as the team grows.

Who we're looking for

• A bachelor's degree or higher and at least ten years of relevant product management experience, with a proven record of building and delivering high-quality software products.
  
• Experience leading complex product initiatives and building internal platforms, document management tools, or operational software in enterprise, workflow-heavy, or document-centric environments.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, or help scale a product management function is preferred.
  
• Experience with user-centered development practices-including high-fidelity prototyping and iterative end-user feedback-and the ability to bring structure to product development through disciplined prioritization, backlog management, and release planning.
  
• Solid technical fluency and credibility with engineering teams, plus the ability to operate in ambiguity, balance strategy with execution, and drive work to completion with discretion; full-stack exposure is a plus.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to translate the needs of non-technical users into clear product requirements.
  
• The expected annual base salary for this position is $225,000 to $300,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.
  

The D. E. Shaw group is an equal opportunity employer.

The applicable annual base salary or hourly rate paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors, including without limitation the nature and extent of prior experience and educational background.

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