Senior Legal Operations Project Manager – CLM Implementation

We are actively seeking a Senior Legal Operations Project Manager with direct experience providing counsel on CLM implementation and deployment. This hybrid Irvine, CA-based opportunity is with our well known client.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years in project/program management with a focus on technology implementations.
• Proven track record of CLM implementations (Icertis strongly preferred; Malbek experience is a plus).
• Experience integrating CLM with systems like Coupa and ServiceNow.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise systems and workflows.
• Willingness to support a hybrid role requiring two days onsite in Irvine-based office.
• Exceptional organizational and leadership skills—able to manage complexity and keep multiple stakeholders aligned.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Preferred Experience

• CLM vendor experience (Icertis or Malbek).
• Background in regulated industries such as life sciences or manufacturing.
• Familiarity with scaled delivery models.

Key Responsibilities

• CLM Implementation Leadership: Own the configuration and deployment of the CLM system, ensuring successful integration with platforms such as Coupa and ServiceNow.
• Project Execution: Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, and dependencies. Prioritize tasks and maintain order of operations for complex workflows.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Set meeting cadence, facilitate communication, and align cross-functional teams including Legal, IT, Procurement, Finance, and external vendors.
• Integration Expertise: Oversee technical integrations between CLM and other enterprise systems, ensuring compatibility and smooth data flow.
• Change Management & Adoption: Deliver training programs, drive user adoption, and establish KPIs to measure success.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate, up-to-date project documentation and governance materials.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify process optimization opportunities and implement best practices for future scalability.

Benefits

• Hybrid
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)

About Epiq Counsel Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe. Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application. It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job