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Director/Senior Counsel, Legal Digital Transformation

Microsoft
Posted on: 24 Sep 2021

Job Location : United States - US

Job Description :

Microsoft’s Marketing and Consumer Business (MCB) legal team in Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) has an immediate opening for a legal professional to join the Modern CELA team as a Director/Senior Corporate Counsel. “Modern CELA” applies industry leading innovation to accelerate the digital transformation and modernization of a multi-disciplinary department’s practices and ways of working. Modern CELA focuses CELA’s investments in culture, processes, and tools to advance our people’s digital transformation journey.

This legal professional will be responsible for:
  • developing a theory and system for identifying CELA strategy-aligned digital transformation impact investments;
  • helping CELA leaders prioritize and direct their teams’ digital transformation investments;
  • driving digital transformation projects, including projects for MCB and the broader CELA Customer Experience and Policy (CxP) organization;
  • developing and delivering communication and influence approaches and content that help internal stakeholders align and act; and
  • engaging customers, partners, and other external stakeholders in industry, academia, and public sector to support their digital transformation, empowered by Microsoft technology.
To be successful in this role you must be a great communicator who is deeply curious and wants to learn and support the success of others. Your team will be working with all parts of CELA to advance an organization-scale journey built upon transformative change. We address adaptive challenges that represent the intersection of social and technical opportunities.

Your work advancing innovation and transformation using organizational management systems, influence, and communication is a critical part of our success. Your core responsibilities have three primary components that form a strategize-drive-amplify virtuous cycle. * Identify the problems we can solve that create the most value for our primary stakeholders.
  • Develop perspectives on resources and capabilities we need to solve those problems and how we help people see the value.
  • Drive work against those problems, tell stories that highlight outcomes and what we learn, and retarget based upon what we learn.
This role is highly adaptive and requires thinking, planning, doing, leading, communicating, and learning in a dynamic environment. We simultaneously run experiments to probe the unknown and build for scale. You will have broad latitude to design and execute investments that serve our mission of advancing CELA’s digital transformation.

You do not need to be a deep technologist to be excellent at this role. But you must want to learn about Microsoft’s technologies and find ways to apply them to your work and your colleagues’ work. Your personal journey of technological discovery and growth is a feature because it brings a valuable perspective to your team. You will have all the technical support you need to thrive, but you must drive your engagement with our people and the subject matter of innovation to produce influence that drives outcomes.

You need to have done legal work as an expert level attorney-practitioner. Your job is to help legal professionals find different ways to think about and do their work. Being fluent in the work and a member of their tribe is instrumental in developing the trust and influence that helps you understand unexpressed preferences, be heard by your customers, and advance the mission through hidden resistance.

You must be a great teammate who looks after and cares for your squad. We are a small team that does hard, fun, work in high pressure environments at high speed. We win and lose. We laugh and cry. And we do it all as a team that embraces success is learning, and failure is not trying. We thrive because we trust and support each other. We also laugh a lot and do not take ourselves too seriously.

A great sprint of work for you might look like:
  • Meet with a CELA senior leader and their leadership team to understand their strategic priorities as business outcomes and help them develop capability investment focus areas;
  • Draft a digital transformation win story highlighting a team’s investment outcomes for the One CELA newsletter;
  • Identify external technical partners to help advance an initiative to redesign a major service line of work;
  • Partner internally and externally to design a knowledge management investment program for the CELA Tech Champs community;
  • Prepare the pre-reading materials for the next CELA leadership team digital transformation investment review;
  • Capture the story of a paralegal who supports a product and uses Forms, SharePoint, and Flow to automate his client intake;
  • Create a PowerPoint deck and talk track for your upcoming presentation at an industry event focused on innovating a legal practice;
  • Prepare a senior executive for her upcoming speech focused on digital transformation;
  • Host a podcast featuring a customer and Microsoft Engineering that highlights a CELA digital transformation project;
  • Work with Learning and Development to prioritize the departmental training schedule based upon your conversations across the department;
  • Welcome customers at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center where you highlight CELA case studies upon which they can build;
  • Talk with a partner law firm about their specific investments in technology supported experiences that help them deliver more value to your colleagues; and
  • Draft a blog post that offers a recipe for cultural change that supports innovation in the legal profession.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Strategist. Work with the CELA Leadership to identify, prioritize, and advance cultural, skills, and technical innovation investments that impactfully advance our capabilities as a department.
  • Driver and Change Agent. Drive strategic projects that create impact through outcomes and awareness and advance them. Energize and direct CELA’s Tech Champ community aligned with organization priorities. Build and execute internal communications strategy to promote ideation, creation, and use of internal digital transformation solutions. Energize digital transformation across CELA by promoting our heroes.
  • Storyteller and Ambassador. Engage with customers and partners to promote and represent the CELA digital transformation portfolio to drive industry awareness of Microsoft solutions and otherwise enhance the company’s reputation. Evangelize and demonstrate the use of Microsoft based digital transformation solutions at internal and external events. Produce stories for external and internal audiences that highlight the value of CELA’s solutions that build on Microsoft technologies, targeting the legal ecosystem (law firms, corporate legal departments, public sector, independent software vendors, consultants, and emerging service providers).
Key Experience/Qualifications:
  • JD or international equivalent law degree and 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney
  • 5+ years operating in organizations with advanced technology needs and business dynamism
  • Resilience, maturity, comfort with risk and ambiguity, and ability to adapt to new environments with different cultures and substantive work types
  • Great listener with strong oral and written communication skills and a capability to engage with senior executives and influence organizations at all levels
  • Good judgment, capacity to change your mind, and an ability to navigate dynamic, matrixed organizations
  • Self-directing, adaptive, and entrepreneurial with an ability to build enthusiasm for organizational change and external engagement
  • Demonstrated intrinsic commitment to Microsoft’s core values of customer obsession, growth mindset, and advancing our diversity and inclusion priorities
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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