Senior Manager, AI Delivery Lead - Legal & RegTech

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.

Strategy & Management Consulting

Sia’s Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.

A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. The Sia Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions.

Location: Open to NYC, SF Bay Area, or Seattle candidates (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager to help grow Sia’s Legal AI & Technology practice and lead transformation programs for corporate legal departments and law firms. You will advise legal leaders, shape technology decisions, and lead multidisciplinary teams from opportunity assessment through implementation and adoption.

The role combines client delivery, business development, and practice leadership. You will work closely with Sia’s legal operations, AI, data, and engineering specialists to improve legal service delivery, reduce manual work, and build capabilities clients can sustain.

Key responsibilities

Advise legal leaders and shape transformation programs

• Partner with General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and technology leaders to assess workflows, systems, data, and organizational readiness for AI.
• Develop business cases, prioritized use cases, technology roadmaps, and operating models, including Legal AI Centers of Excellence.
• Shape initiatives across contracting, legal intake and triage, knowledge management, matter and spend management, litigation support, and legal reporting.

Lead legal AI and technology delivery

• Lead client engagements across workstreams, owning scope, staffing, budgets, delivery quality, and executive communications.
• Guide build-versus-buy decisions, vendor assessments, pilots, and implementation of legal AI platforms, contract lifecycle management systems, and custom AI agents.
• Translate legal requirements into workflows, product backlogs, contract playbooks, and acceptance criteria. Coordinate configuration, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment with technical teams.
• Establish evaluation methods with legal reviewers to assess accuracy, completeness, source reliability, and business usefulness. Address confidentiality, privilege, access controls, and human oversight in solution design.

Drive adoption and demonstrate value

• Lead practical workshops, training, and change programs that help lawyers and legal operations teams use AI effectively in their daily work.
• Track adoption, quality, turnaround times, capacity gains, and cost savings. Use feedback and performance data to improve solutions and establish ongoing ownership and support.

Grow the practice and develop client relationships

• Identify and qualify opportunities, expand existing accounts, and lead discovery sessions, proposals, statements of work, and pricing with Sia leadership.
• Develop offerings, demonstrations, reusable delivery methods, and client credentials that turn project experience into repeatable services.
• Build relationships with legal technology providers and collaborate across Sia’s international teams. Contribute to campaigns, thought leadership, and industry events.

Build and lead teams

• Coach consultants and managers, oversee work quality, support recruitment, and develop the team’s legal technology and applied AI capabili…