[Remote] CONTRACT eDiscovery & Info Gov Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The hiring client is an unnamed global technology company seeking a contractor to lead implementation and adoption of its document retention program. The consultant will translate policies into sustainable systems and workflows, coordinate legal holds and approved legacy cleanup, and train and transition internal owners.

Responsibilities

• Assess current policies, repositories, preservation practices, and previous project work
• Partner with Litigation Counsel and Legal Operations to refine and finalize retention policies across different data sources
• Develop appropriate exceptions to established retention periods
• Create an implementation plan outlining priorities, owners, dependencies, and required decisions
• Reconcile active matters, custodians, data sources, and legal holds
• Lead a phased rollout and approved cleanup of legacy information
• Confirm legal hold and exception coverage before deletion activities occur
• Document approvals, testing, and validation results
• Coordinate communications and training so employees understand what information must be retained and where it should be stored
• Establish practical operating procedures, ownership responsibilities, and reporting processes
• Track implementation progress, legal hold coverage, adoption, and repository improvements
• Train internal owners and complete a practical transition and handoff at the conclusion of the engagement

Skills

• Substantial in-house experience in eDiscovery, document retention, information governance, litigation, or legal operations
• Experience within a technology company handling sensitive data and operating with a lean legal team
• Demonstrated experience personally leading an in-house retention program through policy approval, technical implementation, employee adoption, and ongoing operations
• Ability to clearly explain individual decisions, deliverables, responsibilities, and measurable results from prior retention initiatives
• Hands-on experience with legal holds, defensible disposition, custodian management, preservation, collections, and eDiscovery
• Strong understanding of how routine retention, legal preservation requirements, privacy obligations, and business needs intersect
• Practical experience managing eDiscovery and retention within collaboration platforms, particularly Slack and Google Workspace, including Gmail, Drive, and Google Vault
• Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar platforms and validate system capabilities in partnership with administrators
• Experience implementing document and matter repositories that legal teams actively use, including appropriate ownership, permissions, search functionality, and maintenance practices
• Ability to independently lead initiatives involving Legal, IT, Security, Privacy, People, Finance, vendors, and outside counsel
• Ability to make practical recommendations, obtain necessary decisions, identify and escalate specific blockers, and keep implementation moving forward
• Ideally including at least 10 years of in-house experience

Benefits

• Can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S.

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