Jobs at Sidley Austin LLP

Designs, builds, tests, documents, and maintains AI-assisted workflows supporting learning and technology adoption programs. Applies instructional design and adult learning principles to evaluate AI-generated content, improve processes, and maintain AI tool libraries. Provides coaching and workshops on AI usage, develops learning and adoption reporting, and collaborates with Learning & Development, Data & AI, IT, and Knowledge Management teams.

Leads change management and communications initiatives, primarily supporting Data and AI projects. Responsibilities include impact assessments, communication strategies, change network activation, training coordination, firm-wide communications planning, content oversight, stakeholder consultation, and strategic team initiatives. The role requires strong writing, organization, communication, analytical, and project management skills, with experience in change management and communications.

Provides Level II hardware and software support for computers, mobile devices, telephony, applications, networks, and remote access technologies. Troubleshoots and resolves user issues, performs imaging and configurations, manages equipment assets, coordinates hardware moves and warranty repairs, supports office projects, and maintains IT service records. Requires strong organizational, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills while handling confidential information and competing priorities.

Supports law student recruiting and summer associate programs by coordinating candidate interviews, maintaining recruiting records, tracking evaluations and assignments, organizing recruiting events, and coordinating summer associate orientation and communications. Serves as a liaison among candidates, attorneys, recruiting staff, and administrative departments while providing event support and ensuring accurate, confidential information management.

Leads complex, cross-functional Data and AI programs from planning through delivery. Manages dependencies, risks, milestones, governance, reporting, and stakeholder alignment across Product Management, IT, and business teams. Improves program management processes and standards, facilitates executive reviews, develops performance dashboards, and mentors program managers. Requires strong agile delivery, software development lifecycle, communication, and stakeholder management experience.

Provides Level II hardware and software support for users, including desktop, laptop, mobile device, network, telephony, application, imaging, and remote-access troubleshooting. Maintains hardware assets, performs equipment moves and exchanges, coordinates warranty repairs and vendors, supports upgrades and office moves, and documents incidents in an IT service management system.

Senior Accountant responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, general ledger review, account reconciliations, and management reporting. The role develops advanced Excel analyses, reviews policy compliance, supports system report testing, recommends process improvements, and mentors staff. It requires strong accounting judgment, analytical ability, organization, communication, confidentiality, and the ability to manage competing deadlines.

Owns the enterprise Microsoft platform architecture and evolution, including Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, Entra, Purview, Azure, and Copilot. Leads governance, deployment, remediation, security, information protection, AI enablement, configuration standards, and integration with document management systems. Partners with Microsoft engineering, internal technology and security teams, and business stakeholders to define roadmaps, manage pilots, improve data hygiene, and protect client confidentiality. Mentors administrators and engineers while producing architecture documentation and managing multiple strategic initiatives.

Develops and implements physical security procedures, assesses threats and vulnerabilities, conducts sensitive investigations, manages access control systems, oversees vendors, responds to security incidents, and supervises a Physical Security Analyst. The role prepares threat assessments and investigative reports, coordinates with HR, IT, law enforcement, building management, and other stakeholders, and supports security initiatives across geographically dispersed offices.

Supports firm-wide budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, variance analysis, general ledger review, and ad hoc financial analysis. Develops advanced Excel reports, identifies process improvements, reviews policy exceptions, and ensures accurate transactions. Supervises and develops accounting staff and Senior Accountants through workload management, training, coaching, feedback, and quality review.

Provides Level II hardware and software support for users, including troubleshooting computers, network connections, applications, telephony, mobile devices, printers, and remote access tools. Manages hardware assets, imaging, installations, upgrades, office moves, warranty repairs, and IT service records. Coordinates with vendors, supports projects, and resolves incidents while maintaining strong service, organizational, communication, and problem-solving standards.

Provide executive-level administrative and secretarial support to litigators: manage travel and expenses, maintain calendars and client/matter files, prepare and proofread documents, track time and billing, coordinate meetings and conference calls, liaise with Accounting and Records Management, and perform other litigation support tasks.

Analyzes and improves records and information governance processes, controls, retention, document security, data migration, and compliance practices. Supports lawyers and administrative teams with document reviews, file releases, disposition, entitlement reviews, and workspace organization. Develops recommendations, test plans, reports, metrics, change-management plans, and process improvements while investigating document security alerts and maintaining confidentiality.

Supports and administers Workday HCM and HR operations processes, including time tracking, absence management, employee lifecycle transactions, data audits, compliance reviews, case resolution, reporting, documentation, testing, and process improvement. Serves as a senior escalation resource and subject matter expert, coordinates with Payroll and other stakeholders, maintains HR records, and guides team members on service-level and documentation standards.

Provides administrative and legal support to attorneys, including calendar and meeting coordination, travel arrangements, time entry, billing and matter management, document preparation, proofreading, electronic filing, conflict checks, expense reporting, and file maintenance. The role coordinates with internal departments and clients, supports multiple priorities, maintains confidentiality, and completes legal documents, correspondence, presentations, spreadsheets, briefs, motions, tables of contents, and tables of authorities.

Manages change management activities for strategic, operational, and technology initiatives. Develops stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness, and adoption plans; assesses impacts and risks; partners with leaders and project teams; monitors adoption metrics; prepares dashboards and status reports; and improves change management methodologies, tools, and practices.

Coordinates marketing and client engagement initiatives, including client events, sponsorships, communications, lawyer biographies, promotional materials, and inclusion programs. Manages invitations, registrations, event metrics, ticket assets, marketing databases, research, and reporting. Collaborates with lawyers, marketing, creative, accounting, and regional teams while supporting training and special projects. Requires strong writing, organization, relationship-building, analytical, and multitasking skills.

Serves as the primary finance partner to the Technology organization, leading budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial reporting, governance, variance analysis, investment evaluation, and cost optimization. Oversees technology portfolio spending across infrastructure, cloud services, cybersecurity, applications, and strategic initiatives. Partners with leadership and vendors, maintains financial controls, improves reporting processes, and manages and develops finance staff.

Supports lawyers in Regulatory and Enforcement and Investment Funds practices by managing SEC and state regulatory filings for hedge funds, commodity pools, and private equity funds. Prepares SEC documents and Blue Sky notices, analyzes offering documents, gathers information from attorneys, communicates with clients, and maintains the firm’s Blue Sky website. Manages multiple deadlines while exercising strong organization, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using .NET, React, Next.js, and Azure. Responsibilities include feature delivery, API and microservices development, testing, code reviews, architecture, performance optimization, security, CI/CD support, cloud deployment, and production support. Senior engineers will mentor teammates and influence engineering standards, while early-career engineers receive mentorship and progressively greater ownership.