Transformation Team Lead, Product Manager — Legal

GM•Austin, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the Transformation Team for Legal. Own the redesign of legal workflows using modern collaboration tools, AI, and automation built on approved platform capabilities. Serve as the product manager for the transformation by defining the problem, prioritizing the work, driving delivery, and ensuring adoption, controls, and handoff. The Team Lead is the delivery owner and is accountable for how the work gets done and how execution moves forward. The Legal business sponsor owns outcomes, priorities, and functional adoption and is accountable for what is being solved and why it matters. These roles work in close partnership, but they are not interchangeable.

Requirements

8 to 10+ years in product management or transformation delivery, ideally in enterprise collaboration, SaaS, automation, or AI
Proven experience delivering cross-functional product or workflow initiatives through adoption
Strong stakeholder management, including senior business leaders
Familiarity with modern productivity suites, AI-enabled workflows, automation, and change management
Experience working with legal operations, document-intensive workflows, or sensitive information environments preferred
Comfort operating in regulated, policy-driven, or high-sensitivity environments

Nice To Haves

Experience defining and tracking value realization metrics , including adoption, productivity, control/compliance, and sustainment outcomes, for enterprise workflow transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into scalable, platform-aligned solutions that maximize reuse and avoid one-off tooling or shadow processes.
Experience establishing durable sustainment models , including operating procedures, documentation, ownership transitions, and post-launch governance for artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and collaboration solutions.
Experience transforming legal intake, contract, matter, knowledge, or document lifecycle workflows .
Experience working with privileged, confidential, or policy-sensitive content and partnering with governance stakeholders on compliant AI use.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end team delivery, including workflow redesign and transformation execution for Legal
Partner with the Legal business sponsor to translate goals into a prioritized roadmap
Lead the team across engineering, legal operations stakeholders, and matrixed platform and change resources
Run discovery activities including workflow mapping, intake analysis, document lifecycle review, use case identification, and pilot planning
Enforce architectural compliance and ensure reuse of approved platform capabilities
Escalate missing platform capabilities or required controls rather than allowing shadow architecture
Drive adoption and behavior change in partnership with embedded change leads
Ensure every AI-enabled workflow, prompt-based solution, or automated agent receives required review and approval before deployment
Define and track success metrics tied to cycle time, manual effort reduction, and user adoption
Manage to clear, time-bound exit criteria
Deliver a validated sustainment plan, complete documentation, and signed handoff to the Legal sustainment owner