OVERVIEW:
The D. E. Shaw group seeks a product manager to join its new Legal Technology team and own the infrastructure that determines how legal documents and metadata are stored, organized, and accessed. This team is focused on transforming how the firm’s attorneys work with documents and creating the infrastructure needed for AI-powered capabilities. The role offers a greenfield, high-impact opportunity to work at the intersection of platform strategy, document systems, and legal operations, with exposure to complex, business-critical challenges and close partnership with legal, engineering, and product stakeholders across the firm.
WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY:
- Define and drive the infrastructure product roadmap for Legal Technology, with a focus on document storage, metadata architecture, and scalable information access across the department.
- Partner with legal, product, and engineering clients to identify pain points, clarify priorities, and translate business needs into infrastructure requirements.
- Design infrastructure that supports the retrieval patterns attorneys require—semantic search, deterministic clause retrieval, and relational metadata—and work closely with AI engineers to evaluate where each approach is best suited.
- Drive initiatives through the full product lifecycle, from discovery and prioritization through launch and iteration.
- Bring structure to complex, cross-functional efforts by defining scope, dependencies, and success metrics.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- A bachelor’s degree or higher and five to ten years of relevant product management experience.
- Experience working on platform, infrastructure, data, search, content management, or document-centric products is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with storage systems, information architecture, metadata modeling, retrieval systems, or related technical areas is a plus.
- Experience partnering closely with software developers on technically complex products.
- Exposure to AI-enabled product capabilities, including semantic search, knowledge retrieval, or document processing pipelines, is helpful but not required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to solve open-ended problems.
- The expected annual base salary for this position is $175,000 to $250,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.
Please note that this post is not an application. Please navigate to our website to apply: https://www.deshaw.com/recruit/jobs/Adv/BuiltinPMLegTechInfOct26
The D. E. Shaw group is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Five to ten years of relevant product management experience
- Experience partnering closely with software developers on technically complex products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sound judgment
- Ability to solve open-ended problems
- Experience with platform, infrastructure, data, search, content management, or document-centric products
- Familiarity with storage systems, information architecture, metadata modeling, retrieval systems, or related technical areas
- Exposure to AI-enabled product capabilities, including semantic search, knowledge retrieval, or document processing pipelines
The D. E. Shaw Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is consistently characterized as very competitive and often above industry benchmarks, with strong packages cited for both interns and early-career roles. Compensation is also framed as favorable versus several large tech firms for certain levels and geographies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives are described as a structured mix of base salary, variable performance bonus tied to individual and firm outcomes, and a guaranteed long-term incentive paid out over multiple years. Cash-heavy compensation is presented as attractive for immediacy and certainty relative to equity-heavy alternatives.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are described as robust, including pregnancy and postpartum support, fertility/adoption/surrogacy assistance, paid parental leave, and childcare benefits. These offerings are repeatedly positioned as a standout part of the overall rewards package.
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What We Do
The D. E. Shaw group is trusted by investors across the world to manage their assets by seeking the optimal balance of risk and reward. While we’re known as a pioneer in quantitative investing, we also have considerable expertise in areas that involve fundamental analysis or portfolio manager discretion. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative tools to uncover independent, hard-to-find sources of return across global public and private markets. Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, the D. E. Shaw group began with six employees and $28 million in capital and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance. In the early days of exposed pipes and extension cords, tripping on a cable could take out our whole trading system. Today, the firm has more than 2,500 people around the globe and an institutional-grade (and trip-proof) infrastructure, but we still value creativity, entrepreneurship, and the spirit of discovery. If you’re an intellectually adventurous person who loves to collaborate on challenging and rewarding projects, we encourage you to apply. Visit our Careers page at https://www.deshaw.com/careers to learn more.
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