Legal Research Product Manager

We are looking for a Legal Research Product Manager to drive the vision, product strategy, and execution for research products that serve the California legal community. You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team to execute on a roadmap that is a balanced portfolio of big bets, tactical changes, and core refinements on the legal research product and feature portfolio. You’ll also be responsible for market research, customer interviews, product positioning & messaging, and evangelizing the product throughout the market. You’ll love this job if you are systematic, organized, strategic, and process-driven, with top notch communication skills and an unquenchable curiosity about the legal industry and the needs of California attorneys. Although CEB is located in Oakland, CA, remote working is possible! This is a remote position, with travel required for team and company meetings.

Job Duties:

• Gain buy-in across organization and key stakeholders for product development
• Own the ongoing performance of all legal research products and solutions including but not limited to current awareness, primary law, case law citator, secondary sources, and legal know-how
• Provide Product Management leadership across product development lifecycle
• Ideate new products or product features & functions, and work with development partners to design, test, and manage development of approved products
• Establish goals and key performance indicators. Use analytics to drive roadmap decisions
• Business case development including MVP definition and launch within time and budget
• Own the backlog for the products and/or features for which you’re responsible, including writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Create strategies for how to address identified legal research, content, and workflow problems in innovative ways by understanding what’s valuable, usable and feasible using a lean product development methodology
• Collaborate with Digital Marketing Manager and Product Marketing Manager to strategize email and other marketing campaigns aimed at increasing leads, sales, and retention of products
• Use market research & usage analytics to identify ideas for, develop, and draft thought leadership, including articles, white papers, and webinars
• Build training pipeline and create all training materials necessary to communicate legal research strategy and train relevant employees on product operations & major releases
• Own product messaging, positioning, and marketing strategy for your product line
• Build product roadmap and own execution. Create product plans that clearly communicate across the company the product vision and roadmap at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Be the voice of the customer: deeply understand the California legal community, especially attorneys, by conducting market research & customer interviews
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of CEB leadership, product management, engineering (internal & development partners and contractors), marketing, sales, content development and finance to drive the building and iterating on successful products and features from idea through delivery to customers.

Job Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations. An active listener and clear communicator; can lead by influence
• J.D., J.D./MBA, or prior work experience within the California legal industry preferred
• Good balance of IQ and EQ to be able to solve both technical and social challenges
• Minimum 3 years as a product manager in a technology company or equivalent combination of education and experience, or 3 years as a practicing attorney
• Excellent project management skills including the development of technology-based products and services
• Ability to challenge conventional thinking to deliver innovative recommendations
• Proven skills in strategic thinking, planning and execution
• 4 year degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong analytical ability, including making data-validated, hypothesis-driven, experiment-tested decisions
• Experience owning product and/or feature development from idea to launch on a new or early-stage product
• Empathy for user problems, and an ability to distill insights into the right product answer

How to apply:

Click the link above, search for REQ# 39141

Salary Range $135,000- $155,000 DOE