iManage · 4 days ago
Director of Data Curation & Knowledge Systems
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$180K/yr - $270K/yr
8+ years expiManage is dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, providing intelligent, cloud-enabled solutions for legal professionals. The Director of Data Curation & Knowledge Systems will lead the transformation of legal content into AI-ready data assets, manage data pipelines, and develop a high-performing team to drive innovation and compliance.
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Responsibilities
Owning the data curation roadmap and data standards adopted across product & R&D
Building and operating scalable pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and storing unstructured legal content
Developing entity extraction, embeddings, and semantic search workflows; managing annotation programs for AI training with measurable quality & throughput goals
Evolving pragmatic taxonomies, schemas, and semantic structures that improve search, retrieval, and AI performance
Implementing a data acquisition and ground-truth annotation program including quality assurance tooling and documentation
Embedding governance, lineage, and privacy controls directly into data workflows rather than treating them as separate processes
Leading, developing, and inspiring a high-performing team of 8–10 engineers and specialists; This role combines people leadership with hands-on involvement in early wins, process repair, and system improvements; fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and growth. Driving team development through coaching and career progression
Partnering with senior stakeholders across Product, Legal, Security, and R&D to shape data strategy and deliver integrated solutions; acting as a self-driven leader who proactively identifies opportunities and drives initiatives from concept to execution
Qualification
Required
8–10+ years in data engineering or knowledge management; 3-5 years in leadership
Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge in NLP/text analytics (entity extraction, embeddings, semantic search)
Proficiency with modern data stacks
Exposure to data governance and compliance topics
Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams - building a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation
Experience setting vision and strategy for data initiatives while mentoring team members to grow into leadership roles
Worked on evaluating LLM outputs and task performance, with skills in fashioning and manipulating data
Understanding of programming languages commonly used for text data, such as Python, and experience with text extraction, classification, or summarization
Demonstrated success in influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across Product, Engineering, and AI teams
A self-propelled, proactive leader who thrives in ambiguity and consistently drives initiatives from concept to execution
Preferred
Familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures (Milvus, Weaviate, Pinecone)
Knowledge of legal taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs
Experience in legal tech, DMS, or regulated data environments
Exposure to DMS platforms (iManage, NetDocuments) or eDiscovery systems
Benefits
Comprehensive Health/Vision/Dental/Life Insurance
401k Retirement Savings Plan with a company match up to 4%
Enhanced leave for expecting parents; 20 weeks 100% paid for primary leave, and 10 weeks 100% paid for secondary leave
Flexible time off policy
Multiple company wellness days each year
Access to RethinkCare, a global behavioral health platform
Company
iManage
iManage provides work product management solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
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Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
2023-04-11Series Unknown
2003-08-18Acquired
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Leadership Team
Mohit Mutreja
Chief Technology Officer
Arvind Agarwal
Vice President Of Engineering
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