Description
As Sterlington PLLC scales, our associates need people management, feedback that helps them grow, and a real sense of belonging. You'll own attorney development from the ground up, building the feedback cadence, development programs, and sense of community that turns associates into long-term, fully utilized members of the firm.
Responsibilities:
- Build a feedback cadence around our firm-wide culture of feedback, supporting team members in receiving the feedback they need to propel their growth.
- Manage stakeholder relationships, working closely with partners and firm leadership, tailoring your approach to each.
- Create a sense of community, developing programs and touchpoints that make associates feel like they belong to the firm.
- Own learning & development, designing and managing L&D programs end-to-end, grounded in adult learning theory.
- Coach and mentor, working directly with associates as a people manager.
- Use data to drive decisions, analyzing utilization and performance data to identify areas for improvement.
- Contribute to talent acquisition efforts, applying a working knowledge of US employment law.
- Represent attorney development as a real function within the firm, speaking with authority.
Requirements:
- A legal or attorney-development background, ideally with experience inside a law firm or legal tech environment.
- Judgment and ability to step into ambiguous situations, identify what's missing, prioritize, and work to make it happen.
- Strong L&D program design skills, grounded in adult learning theory.
- Real coaching and mentoring experience, ideally as a people manager.
- Working knowledge of US employment law.
- Data-driven, comfortable pulling together utilization and performance data.
- Excellent English communication, written and verbal.
- Americas time zone, ideally ET, with real overlap with the team and attorneys.