Associate Director-Innovation Delivery

Position Overview

As the Associate Director-Innovation Delivery, you will bridge the gap between forwardlooking innovation concepts and enterpriseready technology solutions. This role is responsible for taking earlystage ideas, prototypes, and emerging technology pilots and guiding them through structured delivery, ensuring they become scalable, supportable, and strategically aligned products within the organization.

You will collaborate with innovation stakeholders, IT teams, security and governance groups, and external technology partners. You ll also lead a team of Innovation Product Managers, establishing delivery discipline, driving measurable outcomes, and ensuring crossfunctional alignment from trial phases through production rollout.

What You ll Do

Strategic Alignment

• Partner with Innovation leadership to define execution priorities, establish delivery goals, and align projects with the organization s longterm innovation roadmap.

EndtoEnd Solution Delivery

• Convert conceptual innovation initiatives into structured delivery plans, coordinating implementation across technology teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.

Emerging Technology Enablement

• Oversee delivery of solutions leveraging Generative AI, specialized legaltech AI SaaS platforms, agentic automation workflows, AIenabled development tools, and custombuilt technology offerings.

PilottoProduction Transition

• Support the design and execution of pilot programs using cloudbased AI services, onpremises GPU/AI environments, and emerging tooling.
• Ensure smooth transition from pilot to fully supported production environments.

Architecture & Integration

• Ensure all delivered solutions adhere to enterprise architecture guidelines, integration patterns, infrastructure standards, and API frameworks.

Governance & Compliance

• Partner with Responsible AI, Security, Risk, and Compliance groups to ensure solutions meet AI governance requirements, policy standards, and security controls.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Build strong working relationships with crossdepartmental teams, promoting transparency, shared accountability, and consistent communication throughout each delivery cycle.

Delivery Reporting & Risk Management

• Provide clear milestone tracking, stakeholder updates, and proactive risk identification and mitigation for all active initiatives.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Innovation Product Managers.
• Set delivery standards, reinforce agile practices, and remove obstacles to ensure execution excellence.

What You ll Bring

Education

• Bachelor s degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.

Experience

• Proven experience overseeing technology delivery within legal, corporate, consulting, or other professional services environments.

Delivery & Agile Expertise

• Strong capability in backlog management, sprint structuring, crossteam orchestration, and readiness activities (QA, UAT, release planning, documentation).

Technical & Operational Fluency

• Experience working with application upgrades, patching cycles, environment refreshes, and coordination across Infrastructure, Security, Application, and vendor teams.

Vendor & Support Model Understanding

• Familiarity with managed service models, SLAs, escalation procedures, and operational platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira).

AI & Automation Exposure

• Knowledge of emerging AI tools, automation frameworks, agentic technology, and industryleading AI SaaS offerings.

Cloud & Integration Awareness

• Exposure to Azure cloud services, AI/ML platforms, Functions, Logic Apps, APIs, and common enterprise integration approaches.

Governance & Security Awareness

• Understanding of data governance practices, security frameworks, and compliance expectations within enterprise environments.

Communication & Leadership Skills

• Ability to translate technical concepts for nontechnical stakeholders, manage complex initiatives, and lead teams through influence and collaboration.

Mobility

• Willingness to travel based on project needs.