Legal Advisory Manager

🕒 August 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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PERSUIT

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Legal • SaaS

PERSUIT is a company that empowers legal leaders to make data-driven decisions for working with external legal counsel. They focus on helping large corporations select the right law firms and manage relationships with outside counsel through a transparent and repeatable process. Their platform offers features such as alternative fee arrangements, value-based pricing, market intelligence, and AI-driven solutions to enhance legal sourcing and operations. By utilizing PERSUIT, companies can reduce costs and improve efficiencies in managing their legal needs.

📋 Description

• Lead complex outside counsel management engagements across corporate legal departments • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, including General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and Procurement leaders • Provide end-to-end advisory across matter intake, panel design, strategic sourcing, fee structuring, legal project management, e-billing, invoice review, and spend governance • Translate data and operational insights into strategic recommendations improving cost control, performance management, and program maturity • Lead project execution alongside Consultants and Analysts, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery • Mentor, coach, and provide structured feedback to junior team members • Oversee workstreams, timelines, advisory methodology, and outputs • Develop and refine standardized frameworks, playbooks, templates, and methodologies for outside counsel management • Codify repeatable advisory approaches across intake, matter management, LPM, panel governance, and e-billing • Contribute to PERSUIT’s advisory model and internal knowledge base • Lead spend analyses and diagnostic assessments to uncover trends, risks, and optimization opportunities • Guide consultants and analysts in advanced data interpretation and storytelling • Ensure recommendations are grounded in measurable financial and operational impact • Contribute to webinars, reports, and industry events • Represent the Legal Advisory Team in client and prospect engagements • Help position PERSUIT as a market leader in outside counsel management strategy and innovation • Partner with Client Experience, Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data teams • Provide structured client feedback to influence roadmap and go-to-market strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8–10 years of relevant experience • Significant client-facing consulting or in-house legal operations leadership experience • Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and managing stakeholders at senior executive levels • Deep, practical outside counsel management experience across matter intake and governance, matter management systems, legal project management, alternative fee arrangements, strategic sourcing, panel management, e-billing implementation, and invoice review processes • Experience within corporate legal departments, legal operations, consulting, or law firm pricing/operations functions • Advanced data literacy and ability to independently manipulate, analyze, and interpret large data sets • Experience translating financial and operational data into executive-level recommendations • Comfort with Excel and analytical tools • Familiarity with e-billing or matter management platforms strongly preferred • Bachelor’s degree required • Current, valid work authorization in the United States required • Visa or work-permit sponsorship is not available • U.S.-based location required; New York location strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity) • Training & Development • Wellness Resources