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Title: Manager, Innovation & Strategy

Reports to: Sr. Manager, Production Management

Direct Reports: Yes

Location: Holland, MI

LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium-ion polymer batteries and modules for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries!

Summary:

As a Manager of Innovation & Strategy, you will lead improvement projects and training programs with cross-organizational scope and complexity. You will develop and manage internal training programs (LSS - Lean Six Sigma, DX - Digital Transformation, etc.) and coach LGESMI team members in LSS and DX tools, methods, and project implementation. Working in the Innovation & Strategy Team, you will be a part of leading a business transformation towards building an intelligent manufacturing facility enabled by Industry 4.0 smart technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Create and execute long- and short-term engineering and business strategic plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines

• Oversee the planning, development, and implementation of small- to large-scale projects including, but not limited to battery manufacturing, smart technology, and process improvement

• Manage and execute training sessions (Lean Six Sigma, and Digital Transformation) and their progress, and assist employees in applying the appropriate tools in their work area

• Communicate with senior management (Directors and Executives) to keep projects aligned with current business initiatives and goals

• Evaluate project performance and support monthly/quarterly/yearly employee award programs.

• Assist LGESMI Team Leaders in any strategic initiative that will help in compliance to standards & goals

• Implement future LG systems, and design creative solutions that will continuously improve the plant performance

• Compile and disseminate focal communication, team/company progress and leadership vision via PowerPoint, Excel, or Business Intelligence Reporting methods at the individual, team and organizational levels

• Build and develop self-driven process improvement & innovation culture plant-wide

• Other tasks as assigned to contribute to the Innovation & Strategy Team’s mission of building an intelligent manufacturing facility

• Conduct thorough and timely Layered Process Audits in appropriate work areas

• Maintain cleanliness at work-site in accordance with 5S3R Standards:

• Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain

• Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or MS preferred, or equivalent, relevant experience

• PMP certification or equivalent is preferred

• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred (Green Belt or Black Belt)

Experience:

• 7 to 10+ years of experience in an automotive or other manufacturing environments

• 3 to 6+ years of experience leading and managing multiple processes

• Experience with Industry 4.0 technologies (IIoT, Digital Twin, Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI, Edge Computing, etc.) preferred

• Experience in leading culture shifts towards innovation is desired

Skills:

• Comfort around higher management

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make sound decisions

• Effective workflow and process management

• Planning skills and effective communication of priorities

• Delegation and directing teams to meet goals

• Understanding of management engineering as it impacts manufacturing quality, outcomes, financial performance, and long-term planning in terms of business transformation

• Proven data-backed problem solving and business intelligence reporting skills

• Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support entire production team

• Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support and work with HQ and global sites

Innovation Strategy Manager

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy manager to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Manager is responsible for managing Cooley's new practice Innovation pipeline. This role is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position r esponsibilities :

• Manage the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, pilot and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Leverage best practices in user research and design to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and identify high-value opportunities to improve legal workflows
• Refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel and product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement
• Collaborate in cross-functional intake and prioritization across technology and operations departments
• Collaborate with the Associate Director of Practice Innovation and innovation leadership to develop and manage data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Manage direct report(s) with a focus on fostering a high-performance, collaborative, innovative, and results-driven team culture
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
• Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
• Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
• In collaboration with immediate supervisor and CN HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required:

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 5+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, design thinking or human centered design facilitation, product discovery process, prototyping, legal technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation). Eligible for consideration of Senior designation with 7+ years applicable experience in the field with 2+ years of exempt/management experience in relevant roles
• Experience in managing cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers or clients

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree, Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent
• Experience with core large law technologies such as iManage or NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp products, Litera products, Thomson Reuters and Lexis products
• Advanced knowledge of the workflows and the core needs of practicing lawyers
• Strong understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Strong effective presentation experience and skills to varied audiences
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau
• Project management experience
• Supervisory experience

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Advanced knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies), and experience in facilitating user research and journey mapping
• Strong leadership experience and ability to build, manage and mentor a team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to legal professionals and senior executives
• Ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong prioritization, project management, creative problem-solving and time management skills
• Ability to focus on detail without losing sight of bigger picture

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $115,000 - $170,000. Senior level candidates may be considered for this position and would be eligible for a higher salary range based on experience. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off ("PTO") and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Innovation Strategy Manager

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy manager to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Manager is responsible for managing Cooley's new practice Innovation pipeline. This role is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position r esponsibilities :

• Manage the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, pilot and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Leverage best practices in user research and design to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and identify high-value opportunities to improve legal workflows
• Refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel and product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement
• Collaborate in cross-functional intake and prioritization across technology and operations departments
• Collaborate with the Associate Director of Practice Innovation and innovation leadership to develop and manage data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Manage direct report(s) with a focus on fostering a high-performance, collaborative, innovative, and results-driven team culture
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
• Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
• Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
• In collaboration with immediate supervisor and CN HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required:

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 5+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, design thinking or human centered design facilitation, product discovery process, prototyping, legal technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation). Eligible for consideration of Senior designation with 7+ years applicable experience in the field with 2+ years of exempt/management experience in relevant roles
• Experience in managing cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers or clients

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree, Juris Doctor(ate) or non-US equivalent
• Experience with core large law technologies such as iManage or NetDocs, Elite 3E, Intapp products, Litera products, Thomson Reuters and Lexis products
• Advanced knowledge of the workflows and the core needs of practicing lawyers
• Strong understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Strong effective presentation experience and skills to varied audiences
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau
• Project management experience
• Supervisory experience

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Advanced knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies), and experience in facilitating user research and journey mapping
• Strong leadership experience and ability to build, manage and mentor a team
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to legal professionals and senior executives
• Ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong prioritization, project management, creative problem-solving and time management skills
• Ability to focus on detail without losing sight of bigger picture

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $115,000 - $170,000. Senior level candidates may be considered for this position and would be eligible for a higher salary range based on experience. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off ("PTO") and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Nestlé's Research & Development Center is our regional powerhouse driving innovation in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical science. Backed by our global Nestlé R&D organization, we lead breakthrough discoveries that are both good for consumers and the planet. Our team of experts range from product developers to engineers, working across our portfolio of food, beverage, infant nutrition, and health science to create leading-edge products and services. As part of our organization, you will use your entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to excellence to unlock the power of food and provide premium value.
_This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship._
In this role, you will impact the future of the biggest coffee global brands by leading the insights learning plan crystallize into global and regional opportunity areas and into validated concepts and prototypes. You will discover, collect, and consolidate consumer insights, trends, and global opportunity areas into the creation and validation of concepts and prototypes, and continuously seek to improve testing methodologies, processes, and tools in order to drive innovation performance and expand mindsets and traditional ways of working.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Identify actionable and differentiating consumer insights for Nestle Coffee Brands.
+ Translate consumer insights into competitive product propositions.
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to guide the strategic development of the brand.
+ Plan and execute consumer research, adjusting techniques to meet project and budget needs and required pace.
+ Drive the adoption of relevant social listening tools for ideation and innovation.
+ Pilot new and disruptive techniques.
+ Regularly interact with peers in global R&D centers and other research locations
+ Act as an internal consultant and innovation insights business partner between R&D, Strategic Business Units, Global Markets, and external agencies with strong stakeholder management and ownership mindset.
+ Responsible for the end-to-end process consumer learning and concept testing: briefing, planning, executing, and identifying the most appropriate approach and tools to deliver the defined success criteria.
+ Support the Innovation specialists to deliver and build strategic roadmaps and Innovation & Renovation pipelines, ensuring connection to global brand and technical knowledge across the organization to develop holistic solutions with commercial validity.
+ Translate trends, weak signals and human behavior into foresights that anticipate consumer needs to incorporate into strategic sessions, ideation workshops, and research activities.
+ Identify, size, and prioritize opportunity areas, creating holistic and consumer-driven solutions.
+ Conduct qualitative and quantitative consumer research for product design, prototyping development and fine-tuning to final concept validation.
+ Act as a translator between the marketing/business and science/technology environments, converting scientific and technical discoveries across R&D into consumer-focused concepts.
+ Connect, exchange and build innovation insights best practices with internal and external networks.
**EDUCATION**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Business, Marketing or a related field
**EXPERIENCE**
+ 5-10 years of experience in Consumer and Marketplace Insight, preferably with an innovation focus, part of a brand team/commercial team.
+ Experience in creating consumer insights that fuel innovation.
+ Proficient in cutting-edge and agile insight methods
+ Strong knowledge and experience in Qual and Quant research methods.
+ Experience in collaborating with senior stakeholders, global brand teams, ideation and concept generation teams, project managers, technical teams, and local market teams.
+ Experience in crafting compelling and relevant concepts for testing
+ Experience in Growth Hacking would be a plus
**SKILLS**
+ Creative growth mindset with passion for innovation
+ Eye for detail yet not losing sight of broader vision
+ Positive customer service attitude, action-oriented
+ Highly collaborative with strong influencing skills
+ Willingness to lead change with ability to execute
+ Comfortable with ambiguity
It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.
To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.
The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1- .
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Job Requisition: 354994

Innovation Strategy Specialist

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy Specialist to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Specialist is responsible for coordinating Cooley's new practice innovation pipeline. This role, working closely with the Innovation Strategy Manager, is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities :

• Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings
• Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement and value delivery
• Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments
• Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required :

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation)
• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers and clients
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau

Preferred :

• Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies
• Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies)

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail, organization, project management and time management skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong quantitative and data visualization skills

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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Innovation Strategy Specialist

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy Specialist to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Specialist is responsible for coordinating Cooley's new practice innovation pipeline. This role, working closely with the Innovation Strategy Manager, is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities :

• Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings
• Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement and value delivery
• Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments
• Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required :

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation)
• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers and clients
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau

Preferred :

• Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies
• Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies)

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail, organization, project management and time management skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong quantitative and data visualization skills

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

Innovation Strategy Specialist

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy Specialist to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Specialist is responsible for coordinating Cooley's new practice innovation pipeline. This role, working closely with the Innovation Strategy Manager, is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities :

• Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings
• Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement and value delivery
• Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments
• Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required :

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation)
• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers and clients
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau

Preferred :

• Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies
• Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies)

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail, organization, project management and time management skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong quantitative and data visualization skills

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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Innovation Strategy Specialist

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy Specialist to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Specialist is responsible for coordinating Cooley's new practice innovation pipeline. This role, working closely with the Innovation Strategy Manager, is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities :

• Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings
• Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement and value delivery
• Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments
• Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required :

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation)
• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers and clients
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau

Preferred :

• Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies
• Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies)

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail, organization, project management and time management skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong quantitative and data visualization skills

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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Innovation Strategy Specialist

Cooley is seeking an Innovation Strategy Specialist to join Cooley's Practice Innovation team.

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Innovation Strategy Specialist is responsible for coordinating Cooley's new practice innovation pipeline. This role, working closely with the Innovation Strategy Manager, is responsible for the product discovery, user research, and incubation process, evaluating and prioritizing innovation initiatives, and incorporating AI and emerging technologies to create a competitive advantage for Cooley's world-leading legal practices. Cooley Innovation embraces a culture of customer service excellence, and all members of the department are expected to embody this attitude. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities :

• Facilitate key aspects of the practice innovation pipeline to discover, incubate, and evaluate new product opportunities that will yield the greatest benefits to the firm and its attorneys
• Engage in user research to deeply understand attorney and client pain points, and opportunities to improve legal workflows, and catalogue actionable learnings
• Identify and implement ideas to refine, systematize and scale the practice innovation pipeline process to promote greater efficiency, uniformity, and transparency into how product decisions are made
• Identify and evaluate practice innovation opportunities leveraging cutting-edge emerging technologies and AI advancements
• Foster strong working relationships with change management, innovation counsel, product, engineering, and other teams to evaluate products and use cases, run pilots, launch products and drive engagement and value delivery
• Collaborate in cross-functional project intake and prioritization process across technology and operations departments
• Coordinate data-driven evaluation process to quantify the business value of practice-facing products
• Collaborate in the development of and adoption of unified work management practices across practice innovation to promote transparency, clarity, scalability and efficiency
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills & experience :

Required :

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
• Ability to travel, as required
• 4+ years of directly applicable experience (e.g., user research, product discovery process, technology use and adoption, quantitative evaluation)
• Experience contributing to cross-functional projects involving users, product and design, knowledge management, technology and practicing lawyers and clients
• Experience with technology usage data and metrics and ability to leverage data for insights and storytelling using data visualization applications such as Power BI and Tableau

Preferred :

• Bachelor's degree
• Understanding of legal technology, emerging technology and AI
• Experience with core large law technologies and enterprise technologies
• Strong knowledge of product process (including design thinking and human centered design methodologies)

Competencies:

• Strong focus on identifying core user and business needs and delighting users at scale
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail, organization, project management and time management skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (product, engineering, change management, practicing attorneys, clients, etc.)
• Strong quantitative and data visualization skills

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $75,000 - $105,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

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