Haynes Boone

Haynes Boone

Director of Knowledge Management

Dallas · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
Business DevelopmentIntellectual PropertyResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Haynes Boone is reimagining knowledge management for the AI era.
  • The mandate is practical and ambitious: reliable starting points, better findability, AI-ready content collections, lawyer workflow integration, and feedback loops that keep the program useful and current.
  • Stationery remains at least 85% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • This is a build-and-lead role for a program at an important inflection point.
  • The Director will shape the operating model for capturing, governing, maintaining, surfacing, and improving knowledge over time; manage a team of KM attorneys; and work with practice leaders and cross-functional teams rather than serve as the sole content creator.
  • Own and drive execution of the Firm's KM roadmap, including priorities, owners, timelines, and success measures.
  • Lead and scale current and future KM attorneys, content specialists, and practice-aligned KM roles as the program grows.
  • Build the KM operating model, including central KM responsibilities, practice-aligned roles, contribution expectations, governance, escalation paths, and decision rights.
  • Partner with practice leaders, KM & Innovation Attorneys, partner champions, and attorney contributors to identify high-value knowledge needs, set priorities, and maintain practice engagement.
  • Support onboarding, lateral integration, and practice training through usable KM resources and clear guidance on where to find trusted materials.
  • Work directly with Practice Innovation product owners, engineers, IT, and vendors to shape, select, design, implement, and roll out knowledge capabilities embedded into search, drafting, AI, experience, and matter-management workflows.

Requirements

  • Experience/Knowledge
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in law firm knowledge management, practice management, or legal operations.
  • Strong understanding of law firm workflows, document lifecycle, precedent management, attorney adoption, and client service expectations.
  • Experience creating, governing, or improving reusable legal resources such as templates, precedents, clause banks, playbooks, checklists, matter profiles, or knowledge repositories.
  • knowledge governance
  • Must be able to move around the office up to 15% of the time to make copies, fax, file, etc.
  • Ability to work credibly with partners, associates, administrative leaders, product owners, IT, data, research, risk, and business development stakeholders.
  • Strong execution discipline, judgment, communication skills, and discretion in handling confidential information.
  • Firmwide KM strategy and execution
  • AI-ready knowledge architecture
  • practice alignment
  • workflow design
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • attorney enablement
  • change management

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in business, communications, technology, or JD preferred.
  • Preferred experience leading change management, attorney enablement, training, or adoption programs.

Skills

  • Define standards for KM assets, including authority, ownership, currency, applicability, metadata, permissions, and deprecation.

Company info

  • We are committed to having an inclusive workforce that reflects our communities, and we seek highly motivated lawyers and staff who value our culture of respect and teamwork.
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