Scrum Product Owner-Hybrid

We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with more than 5,000 people across over 30 countries. We’re full-service with deep niche and sector experience. We’re ambitious for our clients, our communities – and for you. For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. The SES Team collaborates with legal teams and clients to develop our outward facing technology solutions and further increase our innovation offering. We at Eversheds Sutherland understand the need to ensure the fundamentals are delivered across the firm, but also that there will be a growing need to look at emerging and innovative technology to allow the firm to continue to deliver a high quality service to our Clients. We’re looking for a Product Owner to support on the delivery of the productivity solutions team strategy. The Product Owner will use their expertise, knowledge and hands on experience to both raise awareness and ensure the adoption of relevant solutions for our business whilst focusing on delivering an excellent client service.
On a day-to-day basis, the Product Owner will take responsibility for how we drive value from our key technology solutions across the firm. This includes but is not limited to AI document review, diagramming, e-signature, comparison and proofreading solutions. They will be working closely with our practice group Legal Technologists to understand business needs, working with and managing our suppliers to help ensure the solutions meet our needs, identifying new uses to support our legal teams and defining product roadmaps.
Stakeholder management, at all levels of seniority, and communication will be integral in helping to succeed in this role. You will be expected to engage with various stakeholders such as our legal teams, Legal Technologists, IT Business Relationship Managers, and suppliers, to understand how we can make better use of our technology solutions and drive value.
Reporting to the Solutions Manager, the Product Owner will support the delivery of our Productivity Solutions strategy in line with the SES firm-wide strategy.
Leads and supports on projects within the Productivity Solutions workstream to achieve the team’s objectives.
Driving the awareness and adoption of legal tech solutions and ensuring that they are embedded in day to day practice.
The Product Owner will need to develop detailed knowledge of the solutions and how these can be applied to legal work.
This will include the management of team sprints in relation to project and development work.
Working collaboratively with them to understand their requirements alongside any challenges in order to deliver a legal technology solution that is fit for purpose.
Works collaboratively with the practice group partners, IT Business Relationship Managers, Knowledge, Marketing and the wider IT team to drive returns on investments in legal tech supporting overall business and IT objectives factoring in budget, time and resource requirements.
Collaborates with the Risk, Cyber Security, and IT teams to ensure that relevant IT, security and risk policies are adhered to and that any legal technology matters are compliant with quality and procurement policies.
Demonstratable experience of working with legal technology platforms and products essential.
Experience in legal or professional services essential.
Experience in delivery methodologies like waterfall and/or agile and Product Ownership would be desirable but not essential.
Experience with business analysis and/or project management would be desirable but not essential.
Diversity & Inclusion
We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.
Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we are open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements.