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Senior Search Consultant at Lighthouse in Remote, Remote
Job Description
Senior Search Consultant
Full Time · Location: Remote, Remote, US
What is special about Lighthouse?
Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together.
What’s unique about this role?
Search Consulting is a team of experts in linguistics, ediscovery law and process, legal technology, and GenAI-enabled workflows. The team consults on and supports pre-review data minimization, maximizing cull rates, and applying technology, artificial intelligence, and search expertise to optimize downstream review efficiencies. The Search Senior Consultant drives the team’s goals by providing services including expert client-facing Keyword Search Consultation (KWC), keyword search term generation and optimization, analyzing, iterating, and reporting on terms to clients, and ECA / data minimization pre-review, including the application of DART syntax and IQ ECA as Lighthouse’s proprietary culling technologies. The Senior Consultant is a highly consultative role and someone who is a technologist or possesses a high aptitude with regard to technology, GenAI, and their application to electronically stored information. The Senior Consultant takes the lead on the most complex Search tasks and is the first choice for in-person communications with or presentations to clients and counsel on search consultation issues. Moreover, the role involves contributions to the management of process and tool innovation, service standardization, the creation of formal documentation and training, and other organizational-development initiatives.
What will this person do?
- Leads analysis and application of technology, GenAI-enabled workflows, and Lighthouse proprietary culling technologies to reduce data volume pre-review
- Drives development of workflow and SOP strategy and documentation
- Designs and executes non-standard/custom solutions and workflows, including appropriate use of GenAI-supported analysis and automation
- Applies expertise in DART syntax and IQ ECA as Lighthouse’s proprietary culling technology to support ECA/data minimization strategies
- Ability to successfully conduct complex/multi-part analysis
- Leads expert client-facing Keyword Search Consultation (KWC) services with high accuracy and timelines
- Demonstrated mastery of dtSearch syntax, DART syntax, IQ ECA and relevant review platform features/functionality
- Expertise in all standard search consultation services and QC protocols
- Independently develops solutions to complex client request, including custom or creative problem solving
- Leads development of client-facing analyses, reports, and other deliverables
- Identifies opportunities for innovation, including practical and responsible AI incorporation into Search Consulting workflows and deliverables
- Leads service management activities aimed at increasing knowledge, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Search team, such as:
- Process and tool innovation, including GenAI-enabled tooling, DART syntax workflows, and IQ ECA best practices
- Service standardization and best practices definition
- Creation of service documentation and formal training
- Actively participates in other initiatives outside of billable work that map to company and Tech Enabled Review departmental objectives
- Internal point of contact for project management teams
- Ensures questions from project management teams or clients are addressed in timely manner
- Manages collaboration with project management teams re: client communications/consultation/escalations
- Proactively mentors less experienced team members
- Performs other tasks as needed
Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you had the following:
- Excellent communication and consultation skills, including expert client-facing Keyword Search Consultation (KWC)
- Keen attention to detail
- Strong analytics skills
- Technical aptitude and practical fluency with AI-enabled approaches to eDiscovery workflows
- Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility and promotes adaptability/flexibility skills in others
- Strong ability to manage competing priorities and work independently or as part of a team
- Experience with eDiscovery platforms (Relativity required)
- Expertise in dtSearch syntax required
- Expertise in developing regular expressions required
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, computer science, or similar field of study or additional equivalent years of experience in eDiscovery
- Minimum five years’ experience in data minimization/culling strategy development and workflow application
- Two or more years client services or analogous leadership experience in eDiscovery preferred
- Demonstrated experience incorporating GenAI, dtSearch, Relativity, DART syntax, IQ ECA, or comparable technology-enabled culling workflows into search consultation and data minimization workflows preferred
Work Environment and Physical Demands
- Duties are performed in a typical office environment while at a desk or computer table.
- Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material, in a quiet and professional setting.
- Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are!
As required by applicable pay transparency laws, Lighthouse complies with compensation disclosure requirements for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location, or other relevant factors. The salary range for this position may be tailored to be lower or higher in different talent markets.
Lighthouse offers a comprehensive quality benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and a 401k with company match. Company paid benefits also include Life & AD&D, short and long-term disability, telemedicine, and other wellness plans. We offer a generous Flexible PTO program and paid volunteer days. Employees may also participate in voluntary insurance plans including accident, hospitalization, and critical illness plans as well as pet insurance.
This role will be eligible to participate in an annual bonus or incentive program.
As a trailblazer and catalyst for change, Lighthouse rises to each opportunity to help our clients, and our people do what they do best—shine.