Product Specialist Legal Technology & Contract Lifecycle Management

Our client is seeking an experienced Product Specialist to bridge the gap between legal practice contract lifecycle management and enterprise technology. This is a specialist opportunity for a legal professional who understands commercial contracts and can translate legal requirements into structured workflows product requirements and practical system functionality.

The successful candidate will work across the full contract lifecycle from intake and matter creation through drafting negotiation approvals e-signature AI-assisted review contract activation obligations renewals amendments and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Map and optimise end-to-end contract and legal workflows.
• Translate legal and client requirements into structured fields workflows user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Design and validate contract intake forms matter creation and pre-signature workflows.
• Test drafting negotiation approvals Delegation of Authority and e-signature functionality.
• Configure and validate post-signature contract records metadata lifecycle events and obligations.
• Test AI-assisted contract review summarisation clause extraction risk assessment and document comparison.
• Develop and refine legal risk playbooks covering areas such as confidentiality indemnity liability termination insurance and dispute resolution.
• Define and test contractual obligations tasks reminders triggers and evidence requirements.
• Validate dates terms renewals notice periods and termination mechanics.
• Support the linking and management of amendments addenda and master agreements.
• Analyse contract datasets and support migration classification reconciliation and data-quality initiatives.
• Plan and execute expert UAT regression testing and release validation.
• Investigate defects and distinguish between product configuration AI data and process issues.
• Work closely with product owners developers implementation teams and clients to refine solutions.
• Support client demonstrations training UAT sessions and adoption activities.
• Contribute to reporting dashboards and contract-management information requirements.

Requirements

• LL.B or equivalent legal qualification.
• Strong practical experience in commercial contracts contract drafting contract review contract management or legal operations.
• Experience within legal technology Contract Lifecycle Management matter management product specialisation or enterprise software.
• Proven ability to translate legal concepts into structured data workflows and testable requirements.
• Hands-on UAT and software-testing experience including defect investigation and validation.
• Strong understanding of contract metadata structured fields and document-based testing.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage confidently with legal professionals clients product teams and technical stakeholders.

Advantageous

• Admission as an Attorney with post-qualification commercial/legal experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted contract review NLP clause extraction or legal AI.
• Experience configuring risks obligations tasks events metadata and contract types within a CLM platform.
• Knowledge of e-signature document collaboration approvals/DoA and matter management.
• Experience with Agile product delivery user stories and release planning.
• Contract migration classification deduplication or amendment-linking experience.
• Experience presenting legal technology solutions to clients.
• Exposure to FICA/KYC POPIA or legal compliance workflows.

Key Competencies

• Strong legal judgement and contract interpretation.
• Ability to translate legal requirements into technical and product solutions.
• Product-oriented and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Critical evaluation of AI-generated legal outputs.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Ownership follow-through and effective prioritisation.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new legal technology.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1