JAM Recruitment Ltd
Job Title: Immigration Partner - Greenfield Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Location: London The Role This is a highly visible leadership role requiring a blend of top-tier legal expertise in immigration, strategic partner management, and strong operational acumen. You will ensure the delivery of exceptional, unified legal services while serving as the primary bridge between the UK and US headquarters. Role Responsibilities Regional Leadership Direct the Regional Hub: Serve as the primary legal authority for the regional hub, ensuring all legal services align with company standards and strategic goals. Manage regional Co-Counsel Networks: Oversee, evaluate, and control all "spoke" locations within the region, fostering strong relationships with local co-counsel while maintaining rigorous quality control. Drive Communications: Team with Operations Lead to establish and lead a regular cadence of meetings and strategic communications with all locations to ensure alignment with HQ and other locations, troubleshoot local challenges, and provide continuous legal guidance. Enforce SLAs and Contracts: Team with Operations Lead to actively monitor active cases spoke locations to ensure full compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the terms outlined in their co-counsel contracts. Manage corporate immigration matters: Own and grow relationships with corporate clients, including HR leaders, talent teams, founders, and executives. Lead matters end-to-end across core corporate categories: Prepare, review, and file immigration petitions, applications, and supporting evidence with exceptional accuracy. Manage ongoing corporate accounts, ensuring a consistent, high-touch client experience. Advise business stakeholders on immigration strategy, risk, timelines, and best practices. Oversee a substantial caseload while maintaining precision and timeliness. Practice Growth & Collaboration: Help grow and retain a book of corporate business, including scaling existing accounts. Collaborate with a network of top-tier attorneys leveraging powerful internal technology, automations, and optimized workflows. Contribute to an innovative, efficiency-driven practice that values clarity, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Client Engagement & Escalation Management Act as Client Escalation Point: Serve as the primary point of contact and senior escalation point for clients to swiftly and effectively resolve complex issues, service concerns, or localized challenges originating from specific countries within the hub. Drive Client Communications: Lead regional client communications, including drafting and disseminating legal alerts, regional news, and critical updates to ensure clients receive a unified, premium experience. Oversee Regional Billing: Manage and approve the client billing for cases process for the hub and all subordinate locations, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and adherence to billing guidelines. Global Alignment & HQ Collaboration Partner with HQ Leadership: Maintain a strict, regular cadence of communication with the US headquarters to report on regional performance, share strategic insights, and ensure global continuity of legal services. Collaborate with Hub Operations: Work seamlessly with the Hub Operations Lead to align regional legal strategy with logistical, administrative, and financial execution. Technology & Compliance Adoption Champion Technology Utilization: Mandate and monitor the use of tech platforms. Ensure all spoke attorneys are accurately and promptly entering data, case details, and milestones into the system within expected timelines. Data-Driven Quality Control: Utilize reporting features to audit co-counsel performance, identify regional trends, and proactively address bottlenecks or compliance issues. The Person Education & Licensure: Must hold an active, distinguished license to practice law in the UK. Experience: Significant years of complex legal practice handling UK corporate and private client work. Any additional global immigration experience would be desirable, including significant time in a leadership or managing attorney capacity. Partner Management: Proven track record of managing a team of immigration professionals, outside counsel, co-counsel, or a distributed network of legal vendors. Client Service: Demonstrated experience handling high-level client escalations and navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional client relationships. Operational Acumen: Strong understanding of law firm financials, billing processes, and operational workflows. Tech-Savviness: Highly proficient in legal technology and case management systems, with experience driving tech adoption among external partners. To Apply To apply for the position, please send your CV to Andy Shaw via the 'apply now' button.
Job Title: Immigration Partner - Greenfield Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Location: London The Role This is a highly visible leadership role requiring a blend of top-tier legal expertise in immigration, strategic partner management, and strong operational acumen. You will ensure the delivery of exceptional, unified legal services while serving as the primary bridge between the UK and US headquarters. Role Responsibilities Regional Leadership Direct the Regional Hub: Serve as the primary legal authority for the regional hub, ensuring all legal services align with company standards and strategic goals. Manage regional Co-Counsel Networks: Oversee, evaluate, and control all "spoke" locations within the region, fostering strong relationships with local co-counsel while maintaining rigorous quality control. Drive Communications: Team with Operations Lead to establish and lead a regular cadence of meetings and strategic communications with all locations to ensure alignment with HQ and other locations, troubleshoot local challenges, and provide continuous legal guidance. Enforce SLAs and Contracts: Team with Operations Lead to actively monitor active cases spoke locations to ensure full compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the terms outlined in their co-counsel contracts. Manage corporate immigration matters: Own and grow relationships with corporate clients, including HR leaders, talent teams, founders, and executives. Lead matters end-to-end across core corporate categories: Prepare, review, and file immigration petitions, applications, and supporting evidence with exceptional accuracy. Manage ongoing corporate accounts, ensuring a consistent, high-touch client experience. Advise business stakeholders on immigration strategy, risk, timelines, and best practices. Oversee a substantial caseload while maintaining precision and timeliness. Practice Growth & Collaboration: Help grow and retain a book of corporate business, including scaling existing accounts. Collaborate with a network of top-tier attorneys leveraging powerful internal technology, automations, and optimized workflows. Contribute to an innovative, efficiency-driven practice that values clarity, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Client Engagement & Escalation Management Act as Client Escalation Point: Serve as the primary point of contact and senior escalation point for clients to swiftly and effectively resolve complex issues, service concerns, or localized challenges originating from specific countries within the hub. Drive Client Communications: Lead regional client communications, including drafting and disseminating legal alerts, regional news, and critical updates to ensure clients receive a unified, premium experience. Oversee Regional Billing: Manage and approve the client billing for cases process for the hub and all subordinate locations, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and adherence to billing guidelines. Global Alignment & HQ Collaboration Partner with HQ Leadership: Maintain a strict, regular cadence of communication with the US headquarters to report on regional performance, share strategic insights, and ensure global continuity of legal services. Collaborate with Hub Operations: Work seamlessly with the Hub Operations Lead to align regional legal strategy with logistical, administrative, and financial execution. Technology & Compliance Adoption Champion Technology Utilization: Mandate and monitor the use of tech platforms. Ensure all spoke attorneys are accurately and promptly entering data, case details, and milestones into the system within expected timelines. Data-Driven Quality Control: Utilize reporting features to audit co-counsel performance, identify regional trends, and proactively address bottlenecks or compliance issues. The Person Education & Licensure: Must hold an active, distinguished license to practice law in the UK. Experience: Significant years of complex legal practice handling UK corporate and private client work. Any additional global immigration experience would be desirable, including significant time in a leadership or managing attorney capacity. Partner Management: Proven track record of managing a team of immigration professionals, outside counsel, co-counsel, or a distributed network of legal vendors. Client Service: Demonstrated experience handling high-level client escalations and navigating complex, multi-jurisdictional client relationships. Operational Acumen: Strong understanding of law firm financials, billing processes, and operational workflows. Tech-Savviness: Highly proficient in legal technology and case management systems, with experience driving tech adoption among external partners. To Apply To apply for the position, please send your CV to Andy Shaw via the 'apply now' button.
JAM Recruitment Ltd
Job Title: Managing Director - Greenfield Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Location: London As the Managing Director for a newly established innovative, tech-enabled global law firm, you will serve as the operational and commercial leader responsible for building, scaling, and managing this market from the ground up. Working in close partnership with the UK Immigration Partner and US Headquarters, you will own strategy and execution across operations, financial performance, local partnerships, and relationships with corporate clients. You will ensure the country office operates as a seamless extension to the firms' global platform - delivering a premium client experience, maintaining rigorous quality standards, and driving sustainable growth. This is a highly visible builder role requiring strong operational leadership, financial fluency, regulatory awareness, and the ability to scale high-performing teams in a fast-moving, tech-enabled environment. The Role Country Leadership & Market Build-Out Launch and Scale the Country Office: Lead the establishment and growth of the firms UK presence, building operational infrastructure, local processes, and foundational partnerships. Own Local P&L: Drive financial performance for the country office, including revenue growth, margin management, cost controls, forecasting, and reporting to HQ. Strategic Market Development: Identify and execute local growth opportunities, including partnerships, and enterprise client expansion. Operational Excellence & Infrastructure Operational Systems & Process Execution: Design and own all operational workflows within the hub. SLA & Performance Oversight: In partnership with legal leadership, monitor and enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs), operational KPIs, and quality benchmarks across all in-country operations. Drive Client and Communications: In partnership with legal leadership, engage in a regular cadence of meetings and strategic communications with other Hub locations and US HQ. Client Experience & Commercial Growth Client Experience Ownership: Oversee client onboarding, service delivery, and ongoing account management to ensure a consistent, premium experience. Escalation Management: Act as the senior operational escalation point for client service concerns, coordinating closely with legal leadership to resolve issues swiftly. Revenue Expansion: Partner with legal leadership and HQ growth teams to expand enterprise relationships, retain key accounts, and identify upsell opportunities. Billing & Financial Controls: Oversee local billing operations, collections, and financial reporting. Manage and approve the client billing process for the hub ensuring accuracy, transparency, and adherence to billing guidelines. Technology & Data-Driven Management Technology Development : Act as a thought partner to continue building proprietary AI technology tools. Data-Driven Performance Management: Leverage reporting tools to monitor performance, identify operational bottlenecks, and proactively address service or compliance risks. Qualifications Significant years of operational leadership experience, ideally within hyper growth start-ups. legal services, tech, consulting, or a regulated environment. Experience managing cross-functional teams and distributed stakeholders. Proven experience launching or scaling operations in a new market or country. Demonstrated P&L ownership and financial management experience. Highly comfortable with operational dashboards, CRM/case management systems, and driving technology adoption across teams. Builder mindset with strong ownership mentality. High judgment, structured thinker, and exceptional communicator. Comfortable operating in ambiguity while building scalable infrastructure. To Apply To apply for the position, please send your CV to Andy Shaw via the 'apply now' button.
Job Title: Managing Director - Greenfield Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Location: London As the Managing Director for a newly established innovative, tech-enabled global law firm, you will serve as the operational and commercial leader responsible for building, scaling, and managing this market from the ground up. Working in close partnership with the UK Immigration Partner and US Headquarters, you will own strategy and execution across operations, financial performance, local partnerships, and relationships with corporate clients. You will ensure the country office operates as a seamless extension to the firms' global platform - delivering a premium client experience, maintaining rigorous quality standards, and driving sustainable growth. This is a highly visible builder role requiring strong operational leadership, financial fluency, regulatory awareness, and the ability to scale high-performing teams in a fast-moving, tech-enabled environment. The Role Country Leadership & Market Build-Out Launch and Scale the Country Office: Lead the establishment and growth of the firms UK presence, building operational infrastructure, local processes, and foundational partnerships. Own Local P&L: Drive financial performance for the country office, including revenue growth, margin management, cost controls, forecasting, and reporting to HQ. Strategic Market Development: Identify and execute local growth opportunities, including partnerships, and enterprise client expansion. Operational Excellence & Infrastructure Operational Systems & Process Execution: Design and own all operational workflows within the hub. SLA & Performance Oversight: In partnership with legal leadership, monitor and enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs), operational KPIs, and quality benchmarks across all in-country operations. Drive Client and Communications: In partnership with legal leadership, engage in a regular cadence of meetings and strategic communications with other Hub locations and US HQ. Client Experience & Commercial Growth Client Experience Ownership: Oversee client onboarding, service delivery, and ongoing account management to ensure a consistent, premium experience. Escalation Management: Act as the senior operational escalation point for client service concerns, coordinating closely with legal leadership to resolve issues swiftly. Revenue Expansion: Partner with legal leadership and HQ growth teams to expand enterprise relationships, retain key accounts, and identify upsell opportunities. Billing & Financial Controls: Oversee local billing operations, collections, and financial reporting. Manage and approve the client billing process for the hub ensuring accuracy, transparency, and adherence to billing guidelines. Technology & Data-Driven Management Technology Development : Act as a thought partner to continue building proprietary AI technology tools. Data-Driven Performance Management: Leverage reporting tools to monitor performance, identify operational bottlenecks, and proactively address service or compliance risks. Qualifications Significant years of operational leadership experience, ideally within hyper growth start-ups. legal services, tech, consulting, or a regulated environment. Experience managing cross-functional teams and distributed stakeholders. Proven experience launching or scaling operations in a new market or country. Demonstrated P&L ownership and financial management experience. Highly comfortable with operational dashboards, CRM/case management systems, and driving technology adoption across teams. Builder mindset with strong ownership mentality. High judgment, structured thinker, and exceptional communicator. Comfortable operating in ambiguity while building scalable infrastructure. To Apply To apply for the position, please send your CV to Andy Shaw via the 'apply now' button.
