Associate Director Legal Technology

Job Description Summary Location: Hyderabad, India #LI-Hybrid Shape the future of how a global Legal organisation works by leading its Legal Technology strategy, team and innovation portfolio. As Associate Director, you will turn Legal priorities and emerging technology opportunities into secure, scalable and sustainable solutions across contract lifecycle management, workflow automation, digital platforms, data and responsibly governed artificial intelligence. You will partner with senior Legal and technology leaders to build capabilities, guide investment decisions and deliver measurable improvements in user experience, effectiveness and business value.       Job Description Responsibilities: •     Lead and develop a multidisciplinary Legal Technology team across functional and technical disciplines, setting clear direction while strengthening leadership capability, accountability, collaboration, quality, innovation and continuous learning. •     Define and deliver the multi-year Legal Technology strategy, operating model and roadmap, aligning investment, capacity and delivery priorities with Legal Innovation Hub objectives, Legal business needs and enterprise technology direction. •     Partner with Legal leadership, practice areas and technology teams to understand legal processes and user needs, identify transformation opportunities and turn emerging technologies and business challenges into scalable solutions with clear outcomes. •     Govern the portfolio across contract lifecycle management, legal workflow automation, digital platforms, data and artificial intelligence-enabled initiatives, managing product ownership, interdependencies, risk, budget, delivery performance, adoption and executive reporting throughout the capability lifecycle. •     Direct the design and responsible scaling of legal platforms and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities, including knowledge solutions, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and agentic workflows, ensuring appropriate architecture, security, data protection, compliance and human oversight. •     Lead investment, sourcing and commercial decisions by evaluating build versus buy options, developing business cases, assessing total cost of ownership and return on investment, and managing vendors across sourcing, due diligence, contracting, licensing, service levels and performance. •     Drive end-to-end delivery and sustainable adoption from discovery, design and build through testing, deployment, hypercare and operational support, working with Data, Digital and Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Privacy and Legal stakeholders to maintain quality, service governance and measurable business value.   Essential for the role: • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. • 15+ years of significant leadership experience in legal technology, enterprise technology, digital transformation, product leadership, artificial intelligence-enabled transformation or portfolio delivery within a complex global organisation. • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managers, including organisation design, talent development, performance management, succession planning and building high-performing teams. • Strong Legal Technology experience with substantive knowledge of contract lifecycle management, workflow automation, document and knowledge management, templates, clause libraries, playbooks, integrations, data migration, reporting, adoption and support. • Demonstrated experience leading complex technology and AI-enabled solutions from concept, architecture and business case through engineering, integration, production deployment,