Firm Operations Project Manager

🕒 April 29

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $110k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Cooley LLP

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1001 - 5000 employees

Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law.

📋 Description

• Proactively manage multiple related critical projects to achieve specific organizational goal(s) • Ensure all requisite projects are being actively driven and seamlessly coordinated with the firm’s evolving platform/data and digital workplace strategies • Establish rapid familiarity with various project lifecycles including but not limited to agile custom software development, software and vendor selection (RFI/RFP), process reengineering initiatives • Critically analyze work on receipt and on an ongoing basis, ensuring the most efficient and cost-effective options are employed • Ensure business needs and desired project outcomes are documented and measured • Monitor for changing conditions that may impact the scope or body of work • Build and maintain delivery and test plans that surface issues, risks and dependencies as early as possible • Ensure stakeholder and firm operational readiness for delivery of work • Build and deliver change management and communication plans accordingly • Ensure all key project artifacts are delivered • Proactively communicate bodies of work, progress/stoppages, potential risks and issues to team leadership • Work intra and inter team to evaluate and action enterprise resource constraints

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years project management and planning experience implementing projects • Senior candidates must have 5+ years applicable experience in the field • After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications • Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required • Ability to travel, as required • Bachelor’s degree preferred • Certified Project Manager (from accredited program) and/or PMP credential preferred • Experience with a suite of projects/programs inclusive of process reengineering and improvement, software and vendor evaluation and selection (RFPs) and implementation, and agile custom software development preferred • Experience working in the legal and/or operations industry preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Health savings account (with applicable medical plan) • Dental • Vision • Health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts • Pre-tax commuter benefits • Life insurance • AD&D • Long-term care coverage • Backup care for children and/or adults • Other parental support benefits • Firm-paid life insurance • AD&D • LTD • Short term medical benefits • 21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) • 10 paid holidays each year • Generous parental leave • Fertility benefits