Legal Project Management Lead

Location: Hybrid in Bethesda, MD, or New York City, NY, United States

Annual salary: $105,575–$165,025

Company

hirify.global is a large United States auto insurer and a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, serving millions of customers nationwide.

What you will do

• Partner with assigned Legal teams to translate priorities, business needs, and operational challenges into structured initiatives.
• Define, launch, and manage strategic and operational projects through planning, execution, monitoring, implementation, and closure.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, governance materials, documentation, and stakeholder reporting.
• Analyze legal, business, and administrative processes and develop process maps, workflows, standard operating procedures, and improvement recommendations.
• Coordinate Legal leaders, attorneys, Legal Operations, Legal Technology, and cross-functional partners through requirements gathering, decisions, implementation, testing, training, adoption, and handoff.
• Develop metrics and operational reporting, gather feedback, track outcomes, and support continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, operations, legal studies, or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant professional experience, including independently leading projects, programs, operational initiatives, or process-improvement efforts.
• Experience managing projects across the full lifecycle and handling multiple concurrent projects and priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing project plans, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, governance materials, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability to coordinate and influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority and collaborate with senior leaders, attorneys, technology teams, business partners, and subject-matter experts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, facilitation, decision-support, written, and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and presentations.
• Sound judgment, attention to detail, discretion, and ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and related collaboration or project-management tools.

Nice to have

• Experience in Legal Operations, an in-house legal department, a law firm, management consulting, or a comparable professional-services environment.
• PMP, CAPM, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci change-management, or comparable project, process-improvement, or change-management certification.
• Experience with process mapping, workflow redesign, continuous improvement, standard operating procedures, legal technology, workflow automation, or transformation initiatives.
• Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, implementation readiness, training, adoption, and operational handoff.
• Experience developing project metrics, dashboards, KPIs, ROI analyses, or management reporting.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Visio, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Planview, or comparable reporting and work-management tools.
• Familiarity with Legal Operations practices, technologies, operating models, and Corporate Legal Operations Consortium frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility.
• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Inclusive and collaborative culture focused on shared success, innovation, integrity, and customer protection.
• hirify.global will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.