Sr. Director, eDiscovery Technology & AI
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years in eDiscovery or litigation technology, including 5+ years applying advanced analytics and AI-assisted review on client matters and 3+ years leading a team.
- Deep hands-on expertise in TAR 1.0 and 2.0, continuous active learning, and generative AI review (Relativity aiR, eDiscovery AI, or equivalent), including prompt design, validation statistics, and def
- A client-facing record: you have scoped, defended, and explained AI-assisted review to counsel and clients, supported protocol negotiations, and handled the hard questions.
- Multi-jurisdiction experience: you have delivered analytics or AI-assisted review on matters outside the US or for non-US clients, and you understand GDPR, cross-border data transfer constraints, and
- Commercial fluency: you have packaged or priced consulting work, partnered with sales on pursuits, and can explain utilization and margin to a CFO.
- Product partnership experience as the operational or practitioner voice on AI feature design, pilots, or adoption.
- A record of building and developing a technical consulting team, including growing leads into managers and leading people across time zones.
- A direct, clear communication style. You can explain recall and elusion to a general counsel and to a first-year technologist in the same afternoon.
- Experience in PE-backed or high-growth environments where pace and accountability are the norm.
Nice to have
- Legal degree (JD or equivalent); bar admission a plus.
- Structured analytics experience (Brainspace, Reveal, or similar).
- Declaration or testimony experience on review methodology.
- Relativity certifications, CEDS, or equivalent.
Full description
KLDiscovery brings clarity, trust, and meaning to data for clients navigating legal matters worldwide. The eDiscovery Technology practice is where those clients meet advanced analytics and AI: technology-assisted review, generative AI classification for relevance and privilege, search and analytics strategy, and the non-standard workflows that turn a hard matter into a defensible, efficient one. Clients across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific are asking how to use AI in discovery and how to defend it, each under their own rules. This practice answers them everywhere KLD operates.
The Senior Director, eDiscovery Technology leads that practice globally. You will lead a team of technologists and consultants across time zones, own the methodology and defensibility of every AI-assisted workflow we deliver, partner with Advisory to package and price the consulting offerings they sell, and sit at the table with Product and Engineering as we build AI review into our own platform. This is applied legal technology leadership rather than a software engineering role, and a legal background is preferred.
We offer competitive total compensation that includes base pay, bonus potential, inclusive benefits, wellness programs, and perks. We use market and industry data to inform pay decisions while considering geography and labor markets, individual experience, and business needs. Individual compensation will vary, although a reasonable estimate of the current annualized base pay range for this position is $156,000 to $195,000.
What you will do
Lead the eDiscovery Technology practice
- Lead a team of eDiscovery technologists and consultants who design and run advanced analytics and AI-assisted workflows on client matters, including technology-assisted review and continuous active learning, generative AI review for relevance and privilege, search and analytics strategy, and custom workflow design for non-standard tools and data.
- Run the practice on a billable model: request intake, scoping, staffing, utilization, quality, and turnaround, against a demand curve that is growing fast.
- Run it as one global practice, with one intake, one standard, and one set of playbooks across the US, EMEA, and APAC. Build follow-the-sun handoffs so a matter started in London or Hong Kong is picked up cleanly in the US, and partner with regional Operations leaders on staffing, skills, and coverage.
- Grow the practice. Hire, onboard, and develop a manager, consultants, and technologists as demand expands, and build a career path from technologist to consultant to lead.
- Build the operating rhythm: intake standards, capacity forecasting, coverage for second-shift, weekend, and deadline-driven work, quality standards, and playbooks so every matter gets the same standard regardless of who staffs it.
Own the methodology and its defensibility