Director, Legal Technology Canada

Position: Director, Legal Technology at Equinix Canada
Location: Canada

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Job Summary

The Director, Legal Technology – is a forward-thinking, enterprise-oriented product leader responsible for leading the digital transformation of the legal function and supporting their collaboration with the enterprise. This product leader will serve as the strategic partner to their function, with full accountability for delivering modern, user-centric digital capabilities that streamline operations, enhance compliance, elevate employee and stakeholder experiences, and enable business agility.

This leader will oversee a portfolio of legal products and platforms, drive the modernization and integration of core systems while introducing innovative solutions that future-proof the company's corporate foundation.

Responsibilities Strategic Leadership

• Partner with legal leaders to co-create and deliver a unified digital strategy that accelerates their strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities
• Shape the long-term vision and roadmap for legal platforms
• Ensure technology investments align with broader enterprise architecture, data, and innovation strategies
• Be a champion and evangelist of the enterprise’s AI First, Digital and Innovation strategy to the Legal team

Product Ownership & Execution

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a portfolio of legal applications and digital tools (Agiloft CLM, SFDC, Service Now, Onit, One Trust) that support the Corporate Legal, Legal Operations, Contract Management, and Legal Compliance functions
• Build and lead a high-impact team responsible for designing, delivering, and optimizing capabilities that improve accuracy, compliance, efficiency, and experience
• Prioritize investments based on business value, strategic impact, and stakeholder input, ensuring cross-functional transparency and alignment

Stakeholder Engagement & Value Realization

• Serve as the digital thought partner and liaison between legal leaders and the Digital & Innovation team, enabling cross-functional alignment on value streams and other strategic enterprise initiatives.
• Understand user needs across legal functions and geographies to ensure digital products drive measurable improvements in service delivery and operational effectiveness.
• Partner with legal leaders on change management and user adoption strategies to ensure successful implementation and business value realization

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities for automation, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, and self-service capabilities to simplify processes and enhance decision-making
• Keep pace with emerging legal technologies and regulatory trends to ensure platforms remain compliant, modern, and resilient

People Leadership

• Build coach and expand the team to support business success
• Model and teach a product mindset

Leadership Characteristics of the role

• Is a transformational leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale
• Leads with a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment
• Cultivates Innovation – Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation

Qualifications Essential skills, knowledge and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree a plus
• 7+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation or technology leadership with at least 5 yrs in a leadership role
• Proven experience delivering digital solutions for mission-critical environments…