Associate Director – eDiscovery

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Associate Director leading eDiscovery technology, legal holds, data collection, and AI-assisted review workflows at Lilly, a life-changing medicines company.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the strategic roadmap for Lilly's eDiscovery program
  • Design technical specifications and SOPs for defensible, efficient, and consistent EDRM processes
  • Share management of Lilly’s legal hold platform and vendor relationship
  • Provide daily operational support and drive technology enhancements
  • Partner with business areas to preserve data under legal hold requirements across enterprise systems, data lakes, system retirements, and acquisition integrations
  • Integrate and automate legal hold systems
  • Define, automate, and manage data collection from varied systems, formats, and metadata with appropriate chain of custody
  • Share management of eDiscovery data processing, review, and platform-hosting vendor relationships
  • Oversee vendor service quality, efficiency, and cost
  • Evaluate and partner with vendors to implement AI and machine learning solutions, including TAR/CAL, predictive coding, and advanced analytics
  • Advise on complex and ambiguous eDiscovery scenarios while sequencing technical execution against deadlines and system constraints
  • Partner with outside counsel, Legal, Privacy, Records Management, IT, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders
  • Mentor teammates and collaborate cross-functionally across EDRM stages

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, information management, legal studies, or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience in eDiscovery operations or legal technology
  • Hands-on experience managing eDiscovery tools and platforms across the EDRM lifecycle
  • Authorization to work full-time in the United States
  • ACEDS, LegalTech, or similar certification(s) is a strong-candidate qualification
  • PMP certification is a strong-candidate qualification
  • Experience collecting data from multinational, multisystem enterprise environments with complex metadata requirements is a strong-candidate qualification
  • Experience automating eDiscovery workflows is a strong-candidate qualification
  • Direct experience implementing TAR/CAL, predictive coding, or analytics tools in live litigation review is a strong-candidate qualification
  • Ability to explain technical eDiscovery concepts to non-technical senior leaders

Benefits:

  • Company bonus, depending in part on company and individual performance
  • Company-sponsored 401(k)
  • Pension
  • Vacation benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits
  • Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts
  • Life insurance and death benefits
  • Time off and leave of absence benefits
  • Well-being benefits, including employee assistance program and fitness benefits
  • Employee clubs and activities
  • Employee resource groups open to all employees