Senior Project Manager - Technical PM

Job Description

Location: Remote within the United States; 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET

Travel: Occasional travel to conferences and client meetings

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic team and lead our legal technology projects. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing the successful execution of complex technical and legal technology initiatives, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with the projects’ objectives. The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams, including legal professionals, IT specialists, and external vendors, to drive project success and optimize legal operations through the strategic implementation of technology solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the execution of complex technical and legal technology projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery aligned with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, budget, goals, and deliverables.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Identify project change and prepare change orders.
• Manage cross-functional project teams, providing guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle, including identifying risks and identifying solutions.
• Monitor project progress, track KPIs, and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with internal and external teams for the seamless integration of technology solutions.
• Monitor vendor budgets.
• Facilitate communication and foster strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation and provide regular status updates.
• Keep contemporaneous records of daily time worked on client projects and organizational tasks.
• Support the Senior Project Manager(s) and Director of PMO in client and vendor management.
  
  

Position KPIs:

• Project Planning Accuracy: Measure the number of projects successfully completed within the project plan and budget.
• Project Delivery Time: Close out project on time and on budget.
• Cost Performance: Track the actual project costs against budgeted costs, ensuring projects are delivered within approved financial limits.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction: Conduct regular stakeholder reviews to assess satisfaction levels with project outcomes, communication, and collaboration.
• Project Scope Adherence: Measure the extent to which projects adhere to the defined scope and deliverables.
• Resource Utilization: Monitor and optimize resource allocation to ensure efficiency and productivity of team members and external partners.
• Quality of Deliverables: Evaluate the quality of product deliverables, including legal technology solutions, documentation, and training materials against defined standards and requirements.
• Risk Management: Track the identification, mitigation, and resolution of project risks.
• Communication and Collaboration: Monitor the effectiveness of project communication and collaboration among the project team and stakeholders.
• Project Documentation: Assess the completeness and accuracy of project documentation.
• Lessons Learned: Capture and evaluate lessons learned from each project to enhance project management processes.
• Timekeeping: Contemporaneous daily time records of client and non-client work.
  
  

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Project Manager in legal technology or a related field.
• Strong understanding of legal operations and technology applications.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools like ClickUp.
• Non-profit legal services or private law firm experience.
• Exceptional time and task management skills; proven ability to provide contemporaneous time records.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
  
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with technical implementations such as MFA, Windows upgrades, secure workspace configurations, SentinelOne, email security, and server upgrades.
• Relevant certifications (PMP, CMP, PRINCE2) are desirable.
• Experience managing technology projects related to case management systems (e.g., LegalServer, Clio, Pika, JusticeServer), document management systems (e.g., SharePoint, NetDocuments), and/or database management (SQL).
  
  

Please submit a resume, cover letter, and three professional references. References will not be contacted until after the final round of interviews.

Company Description

Just-Tech is a growing technology firm with a wealth of experience providing IT strategy, system design, project implementation and training as well as ongoing management, engineering, and support services to legal aid, public interest, and public defender organizations. Just-Tech is headquartered in New York with team members and clients located across the United States.

Just-Tech’s clients help low-income individuals and families realize the promise of equal justice under the law by providing free and accessible legal services and legal assistance, by collaborating through statewide and national technology initiatives, and by inspiring lawyers to donate tens of thousands of hours of their time every year in service to their communities.

Just-Tech is a growing technology firm with a wealth of experience providing IT strategy, system design, project implementation and training as well as ongoing management, engineering, and support services to legal aid, public interest, and public defender organizations. Just-Tech is headquartered in New York with team members and clients located across the United States. Just-Tech’s clients help low-income individuals and families realize the promise of equal justice under the law by providing free and accessible legal services and legal assistance, by collaborating through statewide and national technology initiatives, and by inspiring lawyers to donate tens of thousands of hours of their time every year in service to their communities.