Sr Director, Legal & Compliance Technology

Lennar•Waterford, FL

About The Position

Lennar is investing in the technology behind its Legal and Compliance functions. The portfolio spans matter management and legal spend, document management and drafting, entity and corporate governance, risk and insurance, compliance and ethics, and e-discovery. Some capabilities are solid. Others are not, and contract lifecycle management is largely unbuilt. The Sr. Director owns that portfolio and the roadmap that shapes it: running the platforms Legal depends on daily, leading the evaluations that determine what comes next, and carrying delivery once a direction is set. Partnership is the heart of this job, not a footnote to it. This role is a deliberate pairing with Legal Operations, who owns business process and adoption; the two are accountable for the same outcomes and neither succeeds alone. Platform and investment decisions are made jointly with Functional and Technical leadership, so building the case and driving it to closure matters as much as the technical judgment behind it. Engineering, architecture, and data teams build alongside you. Success here depends on earning trust across functions and getting to the right answer with people rather than around them.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent practical experience
12+ years in enterprise technology product or platform leadership, including 5+ years leading teams
Ownership of a multi-platform legal technology portfolio: CLM, matter management, e-billing, or document management
At least one CLM implementation end to end, including evaluation, configuration, and delivery
Deep SaaS platform ownership: administration, configuration, release cycles, licensing, and renewals
Track record of building business cases and driving decisions through executive governance; comfortable influencing without unilateral authority and presenting to senior leadership
Has operated at this scope before and can partner with functional executives as a peer from day one, rather than growing into the altitude
Architecture and integration fluency sufficient to shape platform decisions, set requirements, and challenge vendor claims; experience delivering through partner engineering teams and integrators

Nice To Haves

Legal or compliance domain experience in a corporate legal department, law firm, or legal technology vendor
Familiarity with the legal technology market: CLM, matter and spend, document management, entity management, GRC, and e-discovery
AI in production enterprise workflows, including the governance that accompanies it; experience in a matrixed technology organization

Responsibilities

Own the capability roadmap and gap assessment, translating legal and compliance priorities into a sequenced, fundable plan
Lead build, buy, and consolidate recommendations, and develop the investment cases for executive approval
Drive alignment across Functional and Technical leadership; bring options and a recommendation, not open questions
Own the Legal & Compliance SaaS platform portfolio, including administration, configuration, vendor release and upgrade planning, and technical escalation
Lead vendor evaluation and selection with Sourcing and Legal; own licensing posture, renewal strategy, and performance against contract
Lead the CLM agenda across intake, authoring, negotiation, approval, execution, repository, obligation management, and renewal: run the evaluation, make the recommendation, own the delivery
Define the target-state contract architecture with Enterprise Architecture, including boundaries with the enterprise e-signature and procurement intake platforms, and the ERP
Shape the AI agenda for legal and compliance work: evaluate and enable the AI already embedded in the portfolio, and set requirements where more is needed
Define the legal data, reporting, and integration requirements, and own acceptance of what gets delivered
Serve as the primary technology partner to Legal leadership
Hold scope, quality, and schedule across implementation partners; escalate risk early and with a recommended path
Lead a product team; partner with security, engineering, architecture, and data & analytic teams for delivery