To support the delivery of firmwide GenAI in the practices, within
the context of legal technology more broadly, which includes
responsibilities to identify, test, implement, ensure safe adoption
and supervision, drive business and organizational change and value
from approved GenAI and legal technology across the Firm.
The role holder will provide comprehensive project management support
for the testing, implementation, driving safe adoption, and
supervision of GenAI products tailored to lawyer, practice, and
sector-specific requirements. They will support the Practice GenAI
Integration Lead and Knowledge teams involved in the GenAI Program and
work in close collaboration with partners, lawyers, and business
professionals to deploy critical GenAI products across the firm
markets, practices and sectors.
As a crucial member of the firm's GenAI program team, this role is
essential in supporting various GenAI demands and simultaneous
involvement in various workstreams and projects across different time
zones and locations.
Main responsibilities:
Coordinate testing, evaluation, use case development, the
deployment and safe use of GenAI products for legal work, ensuring
adherence to policies, governance, and processes
Collaborate with Technology teams, workstream leads, and SMEs to
pilot and execute projects to ensure project milestones are met
within set timelines, budget, and quality criteria. Ensure all
workstreams comply with the established project timelines and budget constraints
Identify and allocate resources, both people and material for
successful implementation
Collaborate with other project leads to define goals, actions, and
success metrics for each workstream. Conduct regular reviews and
adapt strategies as necessary to meet the evolving needs of the project
Conduct thorough risk and issue analysis and management, with a
strong focus on the identification, analysis, response, and
escalation of key project risks and issues, with a good
understanding of risks in a legal context
Implement proactive stakeholder management strategies, including
communications, training and engagement, and tailor deliverables to
suit individual audience needs
Implement a robust communication strategy to keep all parties
informed and engaged and foster a collaborative environment that
encourages innovation and problem-solving among team members.
Utilize internal communications to facilitate change and align
project activities with organizational goals
Ensure continuous monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the
effectiveness and return on investment of GenAI implementations,
providing feedback and recommendations for improvements
Develop and manage project deliverables and decisions including
charters, scope definition, project plans, resource plans, project
schedules, status reports, and project dashboards, ensuring
compliance against the agreed project framework, methodologies, and
governance of the highest quality and meeting or exceed stakeholder
needs and expectations
Travel requirements: None
About the team
Function
The Knowledge function is a Firm-wide team of nearly 300
professionals, including Knowledge Lawyers, Information & Research
professionals, and a variety of other functional specialists. The
Knowledge function helps the Firm deliver better legal solutions by
producing and providing easy access to high-quality, relevant legal
information for both lawyers and clients. The focus is on the
following areas:
Content: creating, collecting, and providing access to
market-leading precedents, sample documents, practice notes,
training materials, and other knowhow for our lawyers and clients,
reviewing and updating regularly, to ensure that the content is
current and market-leading
Systems: working with the Technology function to design, develop
and build user-friendly and flexible platforms to store knowhow and
deliver it intuitively to lawyers and clients, adopting common
systems across all offices and practice/industry groups
Culture: striving to establish Knowledge as a core part of every
lawyer's role, engaging actively with all lawyers in the Firm and
encouraging them to share their know-how and expertise with
colleagues as openly as possible; embracing a "one team"
culture within the Firm's Knowledge community ensuring that all team
members create and develop high-quality local content while being
aligned with our global strategy and approach
You will report to: Director of Knowledge Operations
Your direct reports, if any: N/A
Key relationships:
Lead Knowledge Lawyers, Knowledge lawyers, and KM Managers
People involved in the firmwide GenAI Program
Partners and associates involved in the GenAI Program
Functional leadership for Knowledge
Knowledge Specialists
Members of the Technology team
About the candidate
Technical skills, qualifications and experience:
Extensive experience in project management within a consultancy
firm, professional services, legal, or IT industry, with a wide
range of diverse business and tech enablement projects
Experience in a legal environment, professional services, and/or
knowledge management, ideally from complex matrix organizations is
highly desirable
Experience with AI / GenAI solutions and leading GenAI evaluation
and implementation or other legal tech projects is highly desirable
Excellent collaboration skills and comfortable with an agile and
iterative testing and implementation process that includes accepting
and addressing feedback from a diverse stakeholder group
Able to prioritize and work to tight deadlines and manage own and
others' workload
Able to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment, also individually
Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to changing priorities
Strong communication and presenting skills, including the ability
to liaise with people across the business at all levels
Meticulous attention to detail
Personal qualities
These personal qualities represent the shared characteristics of high
performers across Baker McKenzie, regardless of job level and location.
Know how
Demonstrates the ability to identify the real issue, and to
anticipate requirements and potential consequences; distills a range
of possibilities by thinking in a considered, prudent manner
Has the capacity to take on new ideas and develop knowledge and
think holistically about business and address media, analyst,
employee, and client audiences
Able to move through a variety of tasks requiring different
approaches, knowledge, and expertise, with the agility of mind and
capacity for analysis and synthesis
Dedication
Driven by a strong personal sense of integrity and upholds
exemplary quality standards
Prepares thoroughly, takes responsibility, uses initiative and is
self reliant to ensure work progresses to the fullest extent possible
Hardworking and diligent with a keen understanding of client demands
Demonstrates composure when dealing with difficult situations
Personal Impact
Uses complex, coordinated influencing/negotiation strategies,
adapted to people, organizations, and/or the situation, e.g. networks
Leverages direct reports to facilitate increased collaboration
across the organization
Builds partnerships based on a common agreement that acknowledges
individual differences but creates a new commonality beyond root
belief large-scale
Creates a positive impression at all times; develops relationships
through collaboration and reciprocity
Negotiates to achieve mutually satisfactory outcomes; shows good
judgment on when to stand strong and when to compromise
Invests in, nurtures, and builds a network of productive relationships
Humanity
Respectful to others, regardless of their position, and earns the
respect of others by being transparent
Has care and concern for others and a genuine interest in others
as people
Treats delicate or confidential issues with grace and discretion.
Why Join Us?
Baker McKenzie is a truly global law firm. Founded in 1949, we advise
many of the world's most dynamic and successful business organisations
through our 13,200 people in 74 offices in 45 countries. Yet big does
not mean impersonal. We work hard to ensure that everyone knows their
role and has the support they need to perform it to the highest
standard. Our culture encourages this - how we work, think and behave
in a collaborative and fulfilling way.
In London you will be part of a 1,000 person office, which is also
our largest office globally. Originally opened in 1961, Baker McKenzie
London is well established in the UK as a leading international law
firm and is regularly involved in some of the country's most
high-profile legal matters. We can offer you the work, pride and
experience of being part of a leading law firm but in a local office
environment that is hardworking, friendly and supportive.
The strength of the firm and our culture is evidenced by a number of
recent awards, including:
Thomson Reuters (formerly Acritas' Sharplegal) Global Elite Law
Firm Brand Index, 2010- 2022 - ranked 1st
The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2021-2022: currently ranked 52nd
Thomson Reuters ranked the Firm No. 1 for cross-border deals for
the last 12 years. More than 70% of our deals are cross-border.
For the 14th consecutive year, the Firm was ranked first for deals
with emerging market involvement, by both number of announced and
completed deals.
Law360 ranked the Firm as one of the 400 Largest US Law Firms in
in its annual survey in 2020.
Identified as one of the Hall of Fame for best law firms for women
by Working Mother magazine, 2011-2021.
Received a a Gold Award in Stonewall's Global Workplace Equality
Index of Top Global Employers for LGBTQ+ Inclusion.
Ranked as one of the Top 20 Employers in the 2023 Social Mobility
Employer Index.
Received Double Certification for earning top marks in the 2022
Corporate Equality Index and Equidad MX of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Winner of the Europe Mentorship Programme - International Firm
award in the Euromoney Women in Business Law Europe Awards 2021
Winner of the Gender Diversity International Firm, Talent
Management International Firm, and Work-Life Balance International
Firm awards in the Euromoney
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