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NetDocuments is hiring a Senior Director to lead its Legal Innovation Partner team and personally manage high-value law firm and legal department relationships across APAC. The role owns AI transformation engagement strategy, enterprise renewal and expansion outcomes, and executive-level client engagement. Candidates need 12+ years in legal technology, legal operations, or enterprise customer success, including at least four years of leadership experience. The position requires strong knowledge of legal-industry AI adoption, experience growing B2B SaaS books of business, and up to 30% travel.
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Dear Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the Sr. Director, Legal Innovation Partners role at NetDocuments. With deep experience leading enterprise legal technology and customer-success initiatives, I can build executive-level relationships, guide AI adoption, and improve renewal and expansion outcomes across strategic accounts.
I bring a client-first, metrics-driven approach to team leadership, including coaching senior practitioners and aligning Product, Sales, and Customer Success around measurable adoption roadmaps. I would welcome the opportunity to help NetDocuments shape its legal AI transformation engagement model across APAC.
Thank you for your consideration.
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I would begin with a structured diagnostic covering firm strategy, priority workflows, data and security constraints, stakeholder alignment, and current adoption maturity. I would translate the findings into a phased roadmap with named executive sponsors, measurable milestones, enablement activities, and renewal-linked value metrics.
I would use a regular account review cadence that combines product-usage data, adoption scores, executive sentiment, support trends, commercial milestones, and stakeholder changes. Accounts with declining usage, weak sponsorship, unresolved risks, or unclear value realization would receive an early cross-functional recovery plan.
I lead through clear outcomes, consistent coaching, and high standards for executive engagement. I would establish competency expectations, account-planning disciplines, peer learning, and performance metrics such as NRR, renewal rate, adoption, and client satisfaction, while giving experienced team members room to own their client strategies.
I would frame the conversation around business outcomes rather than features: reduced friction in legal work, stronger knowledge access, controlled AI adoption, and measurable user value. I would tailor the narrative to the executive's priorities, support it with relevant evidence, and agree on governance and success measures before scaling.
I would partner early with Sales, Revenue Operations, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success on a shared account plan. This includes clear ownership, common renewal and expansion forecasts, documented product feedback, executive escalation paths, and a single coordinated message to the client.
NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.
About NetDocuments
At NetDocuments, we’re shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That’s why we’re building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.
Our team is redefining what’s possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry’s first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.
Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you’re building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world’s most trusted legal technology platforms.
That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation’s top workplaces, including:
- Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
- Five-time Top Workplace USA winner
- Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace
- Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits
If you’re excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we’d love to meet you.
About the role
The Sr. Director, Legal Innovation Partners is one of the most senior customer-facing leadership roles at NetDocuments. You will own the strategy, structure, and performance of the Legal Innovation Partner team — a group of senior practitioners embedded with NetDocuments’ most strategic law firm and legal department clients to drive AI adoption, transformation, and long-term retention.
This is a revenue-accountable leadership role. You and your team are directly responsible for the renewal and expansion of a significant portion of NetDocuments’ enterprise ARR. You will build the playbook for how NetDocuments partners with firms navigating AI transformation, and you will lead that motion personally with a portfolio of the firm’s most complex, highest-value relationships.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and develop the Legal Innovation Partner team, setting performance expectations, career development frameworks, and a culture of client-first excellence
- Own a portfolio of strategic client relationships at the Sr. Director level, personally driving renewal, expansion, and executive-level engagement with firm leadership, CIOs, and innovation partners
- Define and continuously refine the firm’s AI transformation engagement model — from initial diagnostic through adoption milestones and renewal — in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Marketing
- Collaborate with the VP of Customer Success, Sales, and Revenue Operations to forecast and manage the renewal pipeline, identify expansion opportunities, and escalate at-risk accounts proactively
- Represent NetDocuments at industry conferences, client advisory boards, and legal technology forums as a thought leader in legal AI adoption and firm innovation strategy
- Partner with Legal Solutions Directors and the broader Customer Success organization to ensure seamless coordination across client-facing functions
- Hire, coach, and retain top Legal Innovation Partner talent, with a specific focus on building a team that can command credibility in conversations with law firm management committees and C-suite legal technology leaders
- Define and monitor success metrics for the LIP team, including NRR, renewal rate, adoption scores, and client satisfaction — and hold the team accountable to them
- Other duties as assigned
What You’ll Need to be Successful
- 12+ years of experience in legal technology, legal operations, enterprise customer success, or a combination thereof — with at least 4 years in a leadership role
- Deep understanding of law firm operations, legal department workflows, and the current state of AI adoption in the legal industry — you can have a peer-level conversation with a firm’s Managing Partner, CIO, or Chief Innovation Officer
- Demonstrated track record of owning and growing a book of business in a B2B SaaS or legal technology environment, including direct accountability for renewal and expansion outcomes
- Experience building or leading customer success, professional services, or client advisory teams in enterprise technology
- Strong executive presence and communication skills — you are as comfortable presenting to a firm’s Management Committee as you are workshopping an adoption roadmap with a legal technology manager
- JD or equivalent legal industry experience preferred. Prior law firm practice, legal operations leadership, or legal technology experience working with AmLaw 200 firms or large legal departments is a significant advantage
- Familiarity with document management systems, legal AI platforms, and the broader LegalTech ecosystem
- Ability to travel up to 30% to client sites, conferences, and internal team meetings.
Compensation Transparency
The compensation range for this position is: Base: $240,000 $250,000 USD plus bonus
The posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings, base salary and variable if applicable. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate, such as career level, skills, experience, geographic location, qualifications, and other job-related considerations
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Equal Opportunity
NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. NetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success, and we are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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