Hybrid Senior Manager – Training & Development, Quality Control, Compliance, Intake

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading Training & Development, Quality Control, Compliance & Intake at Latham & Watkins. Overseeing a unified service experience and ensuring high-quality operations.

Responsibilities

  • Leading three critical OGC functions—Training & Development, Quality Control (Conflicts), and Compliance & Intake
  • Guiding managers and supervisors across these teams to deliver consistently high-quality operations and a unified service experience
  • Providing strategic leadership and oversight for the teams
  • Ensuring effective prioritization, workload management, and business continuity
  • Building a cohesive leadership cohort across the three functions while setting clear goals, coaching managers and supervisors, and conducting performance evaluations
  • Championing cross-training and cross-collaboration initiatives
  • Collaborating with OGC leaders and subject matter experts to set direction for training programs, frameworks, and documentation
  • Establishing key performance indicators, dashboards, and review cadences for workflow timeliness and data
  • Providing governance and escalation support for Compliance & Intake operations
  • Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Requirements

  • Significant experience managing high-performing teams in a professional services environment, including experience as a manager-of-managers
  • Demonstrated success in coaching leaders, conducting performance reviews, and building cross-functional collaboration
  • Strong leadership competencies, including goal setting, delegation, feedback, change management, and decision-making under time pressure
  • Proven project and program management skills with the ability to establish timelines, manage deadlines across multiple concurrent workstreams, and deliver measurable outcomes
  • A bachelor's degree
  • A minimum of eight (8) years of law-related work experience in a law firm or other professional services firm
  • A minimum of ten (10) years of cumulative experience
  • Supervisory experience and prior experience in conflicts, compliance, or new business intake within a law firm

Benefits

  • Healthcare, life and disability insurance
  • A generous 401k plan
  • At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
  • Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
  • Professional development programs
  • Employee discounts
  • Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

Job title

Senior Manager – Training & Development, Quality Control, Compliance, Intake

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$170,000 - $200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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