New York Legal Risk and Compliance Director (Variable Hire)

JOB REQUISITION

New York Legal Risk and Compliance Director (Variable Hire)

LOCATION

STAMFORD

ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S)

JOB DESCRIPTION

You Belong Here  

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.   

   

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm. 

Where We Need You 

Protiviti is looking for a Legal Director to join our growing Legal, Risk and Compliance Consulting team. This is a variable role intended to fill a short-term need.

What You Can Expect

Directors are focused on developing business opportunities in the marketplace and are valuable leaders within our organization and the business community. Directors pride themselves on client satisfaction and as leaders on engagements, ensure that each engagement project is performed to Protiviti’s standards of quality and meet the needs of the client.  Directors, partnering with the Managing Directors, ensure that each client project is completed with the client satisfied with our service and the quality of our work.  Directors develop lasting relationships within the business community, and are respected for their areas of expertise. 

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You are a driver in the engagement of sales opportunities and consistently develop work at existing and prospective clients.  

• You collaborate with other leaders to develop client strategies to support current projects and longer-term business strategy. 

• You are passionate about continually improving technical and risk management approaches based upon business trends and technical advances. 

• You enjoy discovering new opportunities with current and potential clients and through thought leadership, proposal writing and client interactions. 

• You design and develop thought leadership materials to be shared with your colleagues and your network. 

• You promote Protiviti’s mission, vision and values and encourage collaboration across your teams to ensure effective execution. 

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.  You seek new ways to create extraordinary development opportunities and ways for your team to make an impact on our clients and communities. 

Do Your Talents Include the Following?  

• Experience with providing alternative legal services, experience with implementing legal department change and best practices within law firms or legal in-house counsel. 

• Experience with the usage of legal technologies. 

• Experience with evaluating and designing people processes and procedures within legal departments. 

• Experience with building strategies and roadmaps to achieve a desired result. 

• Ability to multi-task on simple and complex tasks. 

• Willingness to learn new concepts, self-develop certain capabilities and are self-motivated to do great things. 

• Well versed in the use of Microsoft productivity tools (Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Teams, Word, etc.)  in addition to legal technologies such as Relativity, Reveal, and Legal AI tools. 

• Ability to work with a diverse portfolio of clients across industries. 

• Supervisory experience of teams including Consultants, Senior Consultants, Managers, Senior Managers, and Associate Directors people process and procedures to reduce legal spend part 3). 

• Advanced project management and status reporting capabilities. 

• Ability to network and build relationships. 

• Identify opportunities and establish a sales pipeline. 

 Your Educational and Professional Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree and a legal background and/or JD a plus required 

• 15+ years in a related field, preferably in professional services and/or industry and experience in eDiscovery, Legal Consulting, contracts management and legal document review  

• Experience working at law firm or within a leg