Senior Manager, Discovery Operations

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading EvenUp’s AI-powered discovery service for personal injury law firms. Owning legal quality, delivery operations, metrics, staffing, and team development.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the in-house expert on discovery practice across personal injury jurisdictions, including interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, objections, meet-and-confer standards, and motions to compel
  • Define and maintain quality standards, templates, and playbooks
  • Personally review or spot-check output on complex or high-risk cases
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to translate discovery expertise into AI-assisted workflow systems
  • Stay current on statutory and common-law changes affecting discovery nationwide
  • Update team guidance and client-facing SLAs
  • Act as escalation point for legally sensitive judgment calls, jurisdiction-specific objection strategy, privilege issues, and uncovered edge cases
  • Design the end-to-end delivery workflow covering intake, drafting, QA/review, client sign-off, and turnaround guarantees
  • Build the delivery team staffing model
  • Own and report metrics including turnaround time, quality/error rate, client satisfaction, and throughput per FTE
  • Identify and implement process improvements as volume scales
  • Determine where automation and human review should be used
  • Hire, coach, and develop the team
  • Serve as primary point of contact between the Discovery team and firm leadership/clients for escalations, edge cases, and account-level issues
  • Report to the VP, Operations

Requirements

  • J.D. and active bar license in good standing in at least one U.S. state
  • 7+ years of personal injury litigation experience
  • Substantial hands-on discovery work, including drafting and defending written discovery, objections, and motion practice around discovery disputes
  • Prior experience managing people and/or leading a team or function
  • Comfort operating with metrics and SLAs
  • Working fluency with legal tech/AI-assisted drafting tools
  • Clear point of view on where AI output needs human judgment
  • Ability to translate legal nuance into clear, buildable guidance for engineers, product managers, and operations staff
  • Comfort with ambiguity

Benefits

  • Offers equity
  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family
  • Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Sick leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • 10 US observed holidays
  • Canadian statutory holidays by province
  • Home office stipend
  • 401(k) for US-based employees
  • RRSP for Canada-based employees
  • Paid parental leave
  • Local in-person meet-up program

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$129,000 - $152,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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