Senior Product Manager | Specialty Legal

8am is a company focused on empowering professionals with innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product strategy for their specialty legal practice management group, utilizing AI and automation to enhance efficiency and clarity in legal workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of the specialty legal practice management market and the needs of attorneys, paralegals, and their clients. This includes research and quantitative data analysis to identify high-value opportunities that increase 8am's competitive advantage
• Lead collaborative discovery with your design and engineering partners to gain a deep understanding of customers' pain points. These may include complex case type management, form preparation and filing, tracking deadlines and expirations, collecting documents from clients, and coordinating with external agencies and parties. You will co-own the identification of problems, shaping of solutions, and delivery of outcomes
• Drive the strategy and vision for initiatives, defining business cases and ROI of automating routine processes, such as document intake, status tracking, deadline management, and client notifications
• Leverage an understanding of bringing AI-powered solutions to market by partnering with the AI infrastructure team to align roadmaps. This includes intelligent intake, document extraction, and workflow automation assistance
• Drive continuous problem-solving through data analysis, user feedback, and outcome measurement that directly measure customer value and outcomes created, such as case cycle times, document processing time, and client satisfaction
• Lead cross-functional alignment around outcomes, ensuring product success is measured, progress is tracked, and corrective action is taken to reach goals
• Collaborate with Product Operations, Data Intelligence, and Analytics teams to establish proper measurement frameworks and dashboards
• Champion customer empathy while making strategic trade-offs when business and customer priorities conflict
• Effectively influence, negotiate, and articulate strategy with stakeholders at all levels to build organizational alignment around your vision
• Collaborate with Product Marketing and GTM teams to develop commercialization strategies that optimize business outcomes and enhance customer value across solo practitioners, boutique firms, and high-volume practices
• Partner with Customer Success and GTM to drive adoption and change management, ensuring customers realize measurable efficiency gains and ROI from automated workflows
• Leverage AI to accelerate discovery, validation, and delivery cycles across the product team
• Understand and influence the 8am product vision and strategy across the organization

Requirements:

• 6-8+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS environments, with a track record of taking complex products to market, including CRM management, CRM automation, and AI initiatives, in high-growth, scaling organizations
• Demonstrated ability to learn complex domains quickly and become an effective advocate for users in specialized or technical fields
• Strong experience in customer discovery methodologies, with demonstrated ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable product strategies
• Significant hands-on experience in discovering and delivering technology products collaboratively with UX designers and engineers
• Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives without formal authority, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders
• Strategic mindset with the ability to identify, create, and deliver growth initiatives in ambiguous environments
• Business acumen with the ability to build business cases and prioritize customer needs within a business context
• Strong analytical and communication skills. You should be able to develop clear, testable hypotheses and communicate complex strategies clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with agile development methodologies and modern product tools (Jira, Confluence, Figma, analytics platforms)
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation
• Experience in Legal B2B SaaS or legal technology products
• Deep familiarity with specialty legal practice workflows, including case management, document preparation, compliance requirements, and agency or court interactions