Senior eDiscovery Technology Manager

🕒 March 31

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $190k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1884

💸 Finance

🏠 Real Estate

📋 Compliance

Finance • Real Estate • Compliance

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a leading global law firm providing a wide range of legal services to businesses and institutions. The firm specializes in areas such as litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, and more. With a history of over 140 years, it serves clients from its offices in major cities around the world, including New York, London, Tokyo, and São Paulo. Simpson Thacher is known for its work in financial services, private equity, and infrastructure, advising clients on major transactions and regulatory matters.

📋 Description

• Serve as the firm’s senior SME on eDiscovery technology, processes, and defensibility. • Advise litigators and client teams on the technical, practical, and legal effects of collection, preservation, processing, review, and production decisions. • Partner with matter teams to shape discovery strategy, using analytics, data insights, and advanced workflows to control cost and risk. • Supervise, coach, and develop a small eDiscovery team; provide mentoring, feedback, and certification guidance. • Manage team workload distribution, prioritization, resource planning, and escalation coverage. • Establish clear development paths and ensure staff readiness for complex assignments. • Own work intake, triage, prioritization, and on‑call/escalation coverage to meet urgent court and regulator deadlines. • Define and track KPIs/SLAs (e.g., cycle time, cost/GB, review reduction %, precision/recall indicators, rework rate, client satisfaction). • Govern defensible workflows across identification, preservation/legal hold, collection, processing, review, and production. • Lead matter kickoffs and lessons‑learned; enforce QC checkpoints and exception handling; manage complex productions and rolling deadlines. • Maintain a robust knowledge base (SOPs, runbooks, templates) and conduct periodic audits for adherence and effectiveness. • Own the roadmap and best‑practice configurations for RelativityOne (workspaces, permissions, analytics, processing, productions, upgrades, performance).

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Legal Studies, or related discipline (or comparable experience) • 8-10+ years of progressive eDiscovery experience; 1-2+ years direct people management of eDiscovery/litigation support teams in an AmLaw 100 or enterprise legal setting. • Relativity certifications: RCA, plus R1 Pro, Analytics Specialist, or Master‑level credentials. • Expert-level skills with RelativityOne, including performance optimization, advanced analytics, and complex productions. • Proven ability designing and validating TAR/CAL and analytics-driven review workflows. • Working proficiency with additional platforms (e.g., Reveal, Everlaw, Nuix, Logikcull) and the ability to select the right tool for the matter. • Demonstrated expertise with modern data sources (M365/Teams, Slack, Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Jira) and cloud collection considerations. • Hands‑on automation experience (Relativity scripts, APIs, PowerShell and/or Python) to standardize and accelerate workflows. • Track record of budget ownership, vendor management, SOWs/RFPs, and KPI‑driven service delivery. • Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development