Technical Project Manager

A global law firm is seeking to build a Technical Project Management office to help bridge the technology and innovation departments. They are committed to providing top services to their clients whose success depends on innovation. With more than 1,500 attorneys across 18 offices worldwide, they serve the most dynamic sectors in business, including technology, life sciences, clean energy, private equity, and finance.

Their Technology team underpins the firm’s ability to deliver exceptional client service and operates a sophisticated portfolio of enterprise systems, data platforms, and custom applications. We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to join the TMO, which will be a high-performing team of 4–5 technical PMs who collectively own the Client’s technology project portfolio. This is not a traditional PM role.

The ideal candidate is an engineer or developer first; someone who has written production code, architected systems, or built and shipped technical products and who has since moved into project leadership without losing their technical edge. The roles can be hybrid remote near an office location:
Boston MA, NYC, Palo Alto CA, Chicago IL, Denver CO, LA, Miami FL, Reston VA, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Seattle WA, or Washington DC.

The Technical Management Office (TMO) is a dedicated team of senior technical project managers embedded within the Technology Infrastructure & Dev Ops organization. The TMO is responsible for the measurement, management, and delivery of the client’s technical project portfolio — owning the full lifecycle of technology initiatives from initial scoping through production deployment and post-launch review.

The TMO operates alongside, but independently from, the client’s enterprise Program Management Office (PMO). The PMO manages the firm's broader business-level portfolio and handles non-technical initiatives firm-wide. When a project is purely non-technical in nature, it falls exclusively within the PMO's purview. When a project is technical — regardless of whether the stakeholders are technical or not — it is owned by the TMO.

On cross-functional initiatives where technical and business work streams intersect, the TMO and PMO collaborate as peer organizations. In these cases, the TMO serves as the authoritative source on all technical delivery matters and is responsible for producing structured read-outs to the PMO covering initial scoping and sizing, deployment plans, and ongoing progress reporting. Each TPM is directly accountable for producing and maintaining these artifacts for the projects assigned to them.

You will partner with highly technical engineering teams while also serving as a trusted liaison for non-technical legal and business stakeholders. You must be equally comfortable reviewing a CI/CD pipeline design and presenting a project status update to firm leadership.