Discovery Operations Lead, Litigation & Regulatory

Responsibilities

• Design and operate discovery operations across the full EDRM lifecycle, including preservation, collection, processing, hosting, review, and production for conventional and AI-specific data types.
• Own legal hold operations, including custodian identification, issuance and tracking, re-notification, acknowledgments, and defensible release.
• Administer RelativityOne and preservation, collection, analytics, and review tooling across Slack, Google Workspace, internal systems, and other enterprise data sources.
• Create defensible, repeatable discovery standard operating procedures and playbooks.
• Manage discovery vendors, including selection, onboarding, statements of work, pricing, SLAs, performance reviews, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate discovery matters among in-house and outside counsel, vendors, Security, IT, engineering, and other stakeholders.
• Support retention schedules, data classification, defensible disposition, data inventories, and governed retention and collection paths for ESI sources.
• Build measurement and reporting for matter status, holds, data volumes, vendor spend, cycle time, review quality, and discovery trends.
• Integrate generative AI, advanced analytics, custom Relativity applications, and agentic automation into discovery workflows.
• Support litigation, investigations, and regulatory inquiries by coordinating workstreams, vendor execution, risks, and costs.
• Build internal tools and dashboards for legal holds, preservation, collection, early case assessment, production, and cross-matter reporting.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience across the full EDRM lifecycle with ownership of complex discovery operations.
• Experience founding or rebuilding discovery operations, selecting platforms and vendors, and creating defensible operating playbooks.
• Working knowledge of RelativityOne, including administration, search, analytics, TAR/predictive coding, custom applications, and AI workflows.
• Understanding of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, discovery and evidence requirements, ESI preservation, and proportionality.
• Experience with Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Box, mobile, engineering systems, and novel data sources.
• Experience managing discovery vendors, contracts, SLAs, pricing models, and performance across concurrent providers.
• Strong project management and communication skills across legal, executive, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• 8+ years of hands-on discovery experience across the full EDRM lifecycle.
• Experience building discovery operations at a young or rapidly scaling company.
• Experience partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver hold-capable and collection-capable features.
• Experience integrating generative AI and agentic workflows, including Claude or Claude Code, into discovery operations.
• Technical fluency with infrastructure APIs, AWS, GCP, data pipelines, version control, and small scripts.
• Experience operating information governance programs involving retention, classification, defensible disposition, and data mapping.
• Experience managing discovery budgets, vendor portfolios, pricing strategy, cost recovery, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborative, hands-on approach with integrity and curiosity.

Compensation

• Annual compensation range: $220,000–$285,000.