Position summary
The Senior Solutions Architect in Legal Business Consulting will serve as a senior leader and trusted advisor, bridging the gap between client business needs, legal practice demands, and advanced technology solutions. This role combines the expertise of a solutions architect, sales engineer, and business transformation strategist, with a strong grounding in litigation support and corporate legal projects.
The successful candidate will lead initiatives that transform how litigation and corporate legal departments leverage technology for efficiency, compliance, and strategic outcomes. They will not only design and deliver sophisticated solutions but also facilitate client workshops, lead global training programs, capture and integrate client feedback, and support business development through technical sales enablement.
With 7–10 years of experience in consulting, legal technology, or adjacent industries—and a proven record in litigation support, corporate legal operations, and technology-enabled process transformation—this individual will drive high-impact outcomes for both clients and the firm.
Job duties and responsibilities
Client Engagement & Strategic Advisory
- Act as a senior advisor to litigation and corporate legal teams, aligning business challenges with practical, technology-enabled solutions.
- Lead client-facing workshops on AI, litigation management, matter lifecycle optimization, e-discovery, CLM, and legal operations strategy.
- Serve as a facilitator of client feedback loops, ensuring insights from litigation and corporate legal users inform product design and service delivery.
- Support business development efforts as a sales engineer, demonstrating solution capabilities for litigation support, regulatory risk, and transactional efficiency.
Product Enablement, Demonstration & Training
- Design and deliver advanced, tailored demonstrations of legal technology platforms—including litigation management tools, CLM systems, e-discovery platforms, and AI-enabled applications.
- Lead global training initiatives for attorneys, litigation support staff, and corporate legal professionals.
- Partner with product vendors to refine offerings based on litigation and corporate law client requirements.
Process Mapping & Business Transformation
- Collaborate with client legal departments and law firm practice groups to map and optimize litigation workflows, corporate contracting processes, and matter management systems.
- Apply expertise in process mapping methodologies to design scalable, repeatable solutions for corporate and litigation functions.
- Develop best practice frameworks for e-discovery readiness, contract lifecycle optimization, and corporate governance compliance.
Project Leadership & Delivery
- Oversee complex, multi-workstream engagements across litigation and corporate legal projects.
- Provide leadership to cross-functional project teams, including Analysts, Architects, and Managers.
- Deliver executive-level communications and updates to senior client stakeholders, including GCs, CLOs, and litigation department heads.
AI and Technology
- Drive implementation of AI and GenAI platforms tailored to litigation and corporate legal use cases.
- Identify opportunities for AI-assisted litigation strategy, workflow automation, and corporate transaction support.
Operational Excellence & Team Leadership
- Contribute to continuous improvement of team methodologies, playbooks, and delivery frameworks.
- Mentor junior team members and foster a culture of , collaboration, and legal domain excellence.
- Represent the firm as a thought leader at client events, industry conferences, and forums on legal technology in litigation and corporate practice.
Job duties and responsibilities included are not exhaustive and may be supplemented asnecessary. Reed Smith reserves the right to revise or modify job duties and responsibilities at any time.
Requirements
Education:
- JD Preferred. Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Data Analysis, or related field required. Advanced degree or certifications (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma, AI/ML, e-discovery certifications, IACCM for CLM) strongly preferred.
Experience:
- 7–10 years of professional experience in consulting, legal technology, or business transformation roles.
- Significant experience delivering litigation technology solutions (e-discovery, case/matter management, analytics) and corporate legal technology solutions (CLM, governance, compliance).
- Demonstrated expertise in sales engineering, client training, process mapping, and leadership.
- Track record of implementing and scaling AI, CLM, and legal operations technology platforms.
Skills:
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills; comfortable engaging with executive and attorney audiences.
- Deep knowledge of litigation workflows, corporate contracting processes, and legal operations best practices.
- Expertise in workshop facilitation, client engagement, and global training delivery.
- Strong analytical, project management, and leadership capabilities.
- Demonstrate adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, maintaining composure under pressure and effectively responding to change, including during high-volume and unusual events.
- Exercise independent judgment and discretion in complex decision-making, adapting to changing work situations and shifting priorities.
- Ability to self-manage tasks and deadlines in a remote or hybrid work environment, ensuring productivity and responsiveness without direct oversight.
- Think intensely and analyze complex situations, requiring sustained mental effort and concentration.
- Learn and navigate complex, technical legal technology platforms and tools, including those powered by advanced analytics or AI, in support of solution delivery.
- Ability to synthesize complex project information and produce written documentation, including client-facing status updates and reports.
- Maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive legal and client data.
Additional information
Supervisory responsibilities: May lead cross-functional teams and provide mentorship to junior staff.
Equipment used: Personal computer and other office equipment such as telephone, calculator, copier, scanner, etc.
Essential job functions
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods and perform tasks requiring prolonged and/or extensive computer use.
- Ability to use computers, telecommunications, and digital collaboration tools to perform core job responsibilities.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to maintain attention to detail while analyzing complex information, managing multiple priorities, and applying sound judgment to decisions.
- Ability to access, use, and safeguard confidential and sensitive information while performing job responsibilities in work environments that support confidentiality, privacy, and information security requirements.
- Travel for meetings and training as required.
- Ability to work extended hours as required to meet project, client, or business needs.
Working conditions
Required to work in the office a minimum of 4 days per week; may occasionally require extended hours. May occasionally be required to work hours in excess of the normal schedule in response to urgent or time-sensitive project demands.
Pay ranges
This represents the presently anticipated pay range for this position. Actual pay may vary based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.
- Pittsburgh, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta:$154,000 - $173,000
- Chicago, Philadelphia:$164,500 - $185,000
- Princeton, NJ; Washington, DC:$175,000 - $197,000
Employee benefits overview
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Medical Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Virtual Health Services
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability Coverage
- Long-Term Disability Coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Lyra Health Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Family Leave (for eligible Exempt and Non-Exempt staff)
- Transportation Benefit
- Back-up Child Care Services
- College Coach Program
- Pet Insurance
- Paid Sick Time (for Exempt staff)
- Paid Time Off (available to all full-time, non-temporary employees)
Reed Smith offers a challenging work environment, business casual dress code and a total compensation package that includes a competitive salary, flexible benefits program, tuition assistance, and generous 401(k) plan.
Reed Smith is an Equal Opportunity Employer with Core Values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork & Respect, Innovation, and Impact. Reed Smith also provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with law, including in the application and interview process.
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