Legal Informatics Senior Manager
Gilbert + Tobin, a leading Australian law firm, is seeking a Legal Informatics Senior Manager to oversee complex electronic discovery, investigations, document management, data analytics, and legal technology matters. The role combines senior technical leadership with people management, ensuring the consistent delivery and development of Legal Informatics services. The position is based in Sydney, with opportunities for candidates from Melbourne and Perth.
The Legal Informatics team specializes in applying technology to complex legal matters, enabling efficient handling of large volumes of electronic evidence in disputes and investigations. The Senior Manager will oversee a portfolio of large-scale, complex, and time-critical matters, ensuring delivery is technically sound, defensible, efficient, and appropriately quality-assured. Responsibilities include acting as a senior technical adviser on eDiscovery, investigations, document review, data analytics, and technology-enabled legal workflows. The role also involves leading the design and use of Relativity, including the aiR suite, analytics, advanced workflows, and integrations, and developing best practice workflows, technical standards, and quality controls across document review, processing, productions, data rooms, and bespoke datasets.
Candidates should have at least 8 years of experience in eDiscovery, legal technology, legal informatics, or a closely related technical discipline. A deep understanding of the eDiscovery process, defensibility, quality assurance, data handling, and the risks associated with complex legal matters is essential. Demonstrated experience leading multiple large-scale matters or portfolios and resolving complex technical and delivery issues is required. Superior stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience advising senior lawyers, partners, or clients, are necessary. Demonstrated people leadership, including developing Managers and technical specialists and maintaining high delivery standards, is also important. Strong project and commercial management skills, including scoping, prioritization, resourcing, budgeting, and management of delivery risk, are essential.
Preferred qualifications include holding a Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) qualification and/or advanced Relativity certifications, advanced experience designing Relativity workflows, Dynamic Objects, Integration Points, and applications, and experience leading the implementation of AI-assisted review, analytics, and other emerging legal technology workflows. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment, strong use of JIRA and Confluence for project, operational, and knowledge management, command-line and PowerShell scripting capability, SQL scripting, data analysis, and data transformation, Python scripting, API implementation, and workflow automation are also preferred.
Gilbert + Tobin offers a friendly, flexible, and professional working environment. In addition to top-of-market remuneration, the firm provides benefits such as up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave, additional annual leave, a subsidized café and gym membership, end-of-trip facilities, exclusive retail discounts, social events, and more. The Sydney office is based in beautiful sunlit open-planned offices with panoramic views of the city and easy access to public transport, restaurants, cafes, and exercise facilities.
The firm's open, merit-based culture attracts and inspires the best legal talent. Founded in 1988, Gilbert + Tobin's journey has been one of relentless ambition and rapid progress, achieving extraordinary success in just over three decades. The Legal Informatics team plays a crucial role in the firm's commitment to innovation and excellence in legal services.