Product Specialist – Legal Technology & Contract Lifecycle Management

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Product Specialist focusing on Legal Technology and Contract Lifecycle Management, working for a South African software development and holding company. This company specializes in creating industry-specific software solutions for the legal, medical, automotive, and point-of-sale sectors. The position is based in Johannesburg, GP. The Product Specialist will act as a bridge between legal practice and software delivery, responsible for the legal logic throughout the contracting journey and ensuring the product accurately reflects this logic. It is a hybrid position that requires deep legal contracting expertise combined with hands-on software delivery and validation skills, distinct from traditional contract management or pure Business Analyst roles. **What you will do** The role encompasses 20 detailed responsibility areas, clustered into five core pillars: Process and Configuration Design: * Map the end-to-end contract lifecycle (intake → matter → drafting/negotiation → approvals/DoA → e-signature → activation → extraction → obligations → amendments → renewal/termination → reporting) * Design intake forms and matter initiation processes * Configure pre-signature workflows and post-signature contract setup * Define key commercial terms, dates, term, and renewal logic * Manage amendments and contract linking Legal Content Work: * Develop risk playbooks and conduct missing-clause analysis * Create obligation extraction rules (obligor / action / timing / evidence) * Draft realistic test agreements across various contract types, including: * SLAs * Leases * Loans * NDAs * Supply contracts AI Validation: * Test AI outputs for: * Summarisation * Clause and field extraction * FAQs * Document comparison * Conversational assistant responses * Feed legal corrections back into the product as formal requirements QA & Delivery: * Perform expert User Acceptance Testing (UAT) * Conduct regression testing * Reproduce defects and perform root-cause triage (defect vs. AI vs. configuration vs. data vs. user error) * Validate releases and upgrades Client facing and Data Work: * Deliver product demos and training sessions * Drive client adoption * Build and maintain reporting dashboards * Perform heavy Excel-based data migration, classification, and data-quality work across thousands of records **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Education: LL.B or equivalent legal / paralegal qualification * Experience: * Substantial commercial contracting experience * Hands-on legal-tech / CLM / matter-management exposure * Real UAT and defect work experience * Technical Skills: * Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Advantageous: * Admitted attorney * AI / NLP and clause-extraction experience * Enterprise CLM configuration experience * Agile delivery experience * Contract migration experience * FICA / KYC / POPIA compliance exposure **Who should apply** This role is ideal for a lawyer or legal/paralegal professional with an LL.B or equivalent qualification who possesses deep legal contracting expertise and a strong interest in software delivery and validation. The candidate should have substantial commercial contracting experience, hands-on exposure to legal-tech, CLM, or matter-management systems, and practical experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and defect resolution. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is essential. While not mandatory, candidates who are admitted attorneys, have experience with AI/NLP and clause-extraction, enterprise CLM configuration, agile delivery, contract migration, or FICA/KYC/POPIA compliance exposure would be at an advantage. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.jobmail.co.za/jobs/it-computer/other-it-computer/sandton/product-specialist-%E2%80%93-legal-technology-contract-lifecycle-management-id-7582076 Source: jobmail

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