Technical Project Manager

Job Description
Our Story: Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving more than 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recognized as one of the best places to work, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees are driven, energetic, passionate, and have the ability to make a direct impact on the future of the company.
The Opportunity: The Technical Project Manager is part of Litera's R&D Operations team and will be responsible for running mission critical cross-functional projects, including post-deal R&D integration for acquisitions, and providing overall program support for the R&D organization.
A Day in the Life:

• Supports the R&D team on various strategic projects, driving the planning and roll-out of projects from inception to completion
• Owns program management activities for active R&D integrations, including planning, status tracking, reporting, and meeting facilitation
• Drives key actions from our RCDOs (Rally Cry Defining Objectives aka OKRs), ensuring consistency and quality of data, program progress, and risks
• Co-operates closely with cross-functional program managers, team-leaders, and R&D project teams
• Implements and manages changes and interventions to achieve project goals
• Provides regular reports on project progress, problems, and solutions
• Manages risks and issues, escalating to leadership where necessary

Role progression:
Within 1 month, you will:

• Complete onboarding process
• Familiarize yourself with the business, R&D organization, and core systems
• Understand Litera's H2 (Half 2) R&D RCDOs
• Partner with R&D Operations leadership to understand key in flight and upcoming projects
• Learn the integration approach and process, including the integration playbook, best practices, and key activities
• At the rate we make acquisitions, you will also start to participate in a secondary role on an in-flight acquisition

Within 3 months, you will:

• Have a good understanding of Litera standard software development process and tools
• Help drive the R&D owned RCDOs and contribute to those with R&D collaboration
• Lead, coordinate, and facilitate special projects and key meetings
• Start owning project management role for active R&D integrations
• Collaborate across teams (locally and internationally)

Within 6 months, you will:

• Drive a subset of R&D owned RCDO initiatives and special projects
• Project manage multiple M&A initiatives simultaneously at various stages in the R&D integration process
• Build relationships with functional leads and serve as trusted project manager on key projects
• Use data and metrics to identify areas improvement and drive positive change
• Help ensure compliance with standard project processes and best practices
• Identify potential integration/project pitfalls and implement mitigation plans

About You:

• Accountable
• Driven
• Proactive
• A servant-leader
• Someone who collaborates well with team members
• Goal oriented
• Organized
• Detail oriented

Qualifications

• 3-5 years project/program management experience in a technology environment
• Experienced in supporting integration projects
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ambiguous environment
• Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional and international teams
• Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills targeting various stakeholders and senior management
• Ability to work independently on day-to-day initiatives with appropriate support from manager and teammates
• High attention to detail with strong facilitation and organization skills
• Strong desire to keep learning new things
• You get things done

Why Litera?
We strive to stay current with all employment trends and prioritize flexibility, employee well-being, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Most of our employees are fully remote, and we do not have a return-to-office plan as we are more successful working remotely. Our generous PTO and ten flexible holidays promote work-life balance. And all our employees are encouraged to access personal development courses and tools in our internal learning management system.
Litera is an equal opportunity employer, and proud to be committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.
Note: As we continually reevaluate pay transparency rules and requirements, in order to ensure we are compliant, we believe a direct approach to be most accurate. If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio or Washington resident and this role is physically available in your state or classified as remote, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Please send an email identifying the title of the role you are interested in and the state you reside in to [email protected] .
Litera is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.