Director Product Software Engineering | Legal & Regulatory US

Job Description

As the Director of Product Software Engineering for our Legal & Regulatory US business, you will be at the forefront of shaping the technology vision for a mission-critical product portfolio. This role is designed for a proven engineering leader who combines technical depth, product intuition, and business acumen to drive innovation across a complex multi-product suite that serves as a backbone for the legal industry. Your expertise in high-impact engineering leadership will enable us to achieve our ambitious growth objectives and set new standards in enterprise legal management technology.

In this pivotal leadership role, you will: Serve as a member of the LRUS leadership team: As part of the DXG LR and LR US leadership teams, you will shape business and product strategy through an engineering lens, aligning technology investments with growth and customer value, driving innovation and operational excellence, and turning strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps for modernization, Agentic AI, and reliability serving strategy that aligns with our market objectives and customer needs. Your vision will directly influence our position in the legal technology landscape, pushing boundaries and redefining expectations for innovation and quality. Lead Engineering Excellence: Oversee a global team of engineers across the U. S.

and India, guiding them to develop cutting-edge solutions that scale efficiently and deliver measurable impact. You’ll be responsible for ensuring a robust engineering lifecycle from concept to release, incorporating best-in-class DevSecOps, QE, and UX practices through partnerships with our Centers of Excellence.

Help drive Product Innovation: Architect solutions that address complex customer needs, transform user experiences, and enhance the operational impact of our platforms and modules. With your guidance, our engineering teams will set new benchmarks for reliability, security, and performance, establishing us as a trusted partner in legal tech. Collaborate Across Functions: Success in this role depends on close alignment with Product Management, Customer Operations, and Global Business Services teams.

Together, you’ll ensure cohesive strategy execution, seamless delivery, and exceptional client experiences that drive long-term growth. This is an opportunity to be at the helm of a transformative journey in a high-impact, high-visibility leadership role. You’ll set the technological direction, influence our approach to business transformation, and play a critical role in achieving our mission to revolutionize the legal, regulatory and compliance content, expert solutions and software space.

If you’re passionate about driving both innovation and operational excellence, and you’re ready to inspire a world-class team, we’d love to hear from you. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership and Partnership Serve as a core member of the LR US leadership team, shaping business and product strategy through the engineering lens.

Partner with Product and Business leaders to align technology investments with strategic outcomes, growth, and customer value. Represent engineering in executive decision-making, balancing innovation, delivery, and operational excellence. Translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps that combine platform modernization, Agentic AI integration, and reliability improvements.

Engineering Vision & Strategy Define and execute the technology roadmap for LR US, aligning modernization, platform evolution, and Agentic AI enablement. Architect for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, adopting cloud-native patterns, distributed design, and observability by default. Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, and continuous delivery to strengthen product quality and developer efficiency.

Hands-On Technical Leadership Provide architectural direction and technical depth across teams, ensuring design decisions scale effectively across products. Lead design and performance reviews, reliability improvement programs, and root cause analysis to continually raise engineering standards. Collaborate with DXG CoEs to operationalize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vectorized APIs, and autonomous agent frameworks within live customer environments Drive Engineering Excellence Utilize broad and deep knowledge base to represent the multiple DXG teams engaged with LRUS in strategic discussions.

Ensure the broader technology team has a deep and holistic understanding of the necessary outcomes to support the business goals and objectives and works to create the technical strategy and plans to drive to these outcomes. Champion a culture of engineering excellence, ensuring every squad operates with clear standards for quality, velocity, reliability, and security. Establish consistent practices for code reviews, observability, automated testing, and continuous improvement across all teams.

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