Jobs at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Leads full-cycle recruitment for senior and specialist technology roles across multiple geographies. Partners with technology leaders and hiring managers to define requirements, develop sourcing strategies, assess candidates, build passive talent pipelines, and provide market intelligence on compensation and availability. Manages concurrent searches, maintains applicant tracking system data, reports on recruiting KPIs, and serves as a trusted adviser while ensuring a strong, inclusive candidate and stakeholder experience.

Lead planning and delivery of AI-enabled legal solutions and technology initiatives. Coordinate lawyers, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders; manage scope, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, testing, rollouts, governance, and adoption. Facilitate requirements gathering and stakeholder communications while ensuring alignment with security, compliance, privacy, information governance, and responsible AI standards. Drive continuous improvements in project delivery and change management across multiple global workstreams.

Design and develop responsive, accessible user interfaces for digital platforms. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders; conduct user research; implement production-ready frontend code using HTML, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript; and maintain reusable components, style guides, and design systems. Support server-rendered applications, testing, accessibility validation, cross-browser debugging, version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and consistent interaction patterns across multiple applications.

Designs and prototypes AI-enabled legal technology solutions, translating legal workflows into secure, governed architectures. Partners with lawyers, stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to define requirements and guide delivery. Builds production Python services and document workflows using LLMs, retrieval, RAG, agents, and cloud technologies. Leads discovery workshops, user testing, technology evaluations, and continuous improvement while ensuring privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI standards.

Leads strategic external communications and media relations for Freshfields’ practices, strengthening reputation, partner visibility, and market influence. Develops communications strategies, builds journalist relationships, manages media engagement, creates thought leadership content, advises senior stakeholders, coaches spokespeople, monitors market developments, and measures communications performance. The role requires strong knowledge of financial markets, M&A, private capital, capital markets, and professional services communications, along with exceptional writing, storytelling, judgment, and stakeholder management skills.

Supports partner remuneration, profit-share allocations, drawings, annuity administration, capital accounts, loan calculations, reconciliations, tax information, audit support, and financial controls. Maintains partner data and process documentation, identifies efficiencies, responds to partner queries, and collaborates with Tax, Treasury, Reporting, HR, and Legal teams.

Supports US brand and communications initiatives through internal and external communications, media relations, thought leadership, social media, award submissions, content development, campaign coordination, reporting, and communications operations. The role drafts internal and external materials, manages calendars and collateral, tracks performance metrics, and collaborates with leadership, HR, lawyers, and business teams to strengthen employee engagement, reputation, and business development.

Manage strategic HR projects focused on organizational design, workforce planning, AI-enabled transformation, change management, and continuous improvement. Coordinate project workstreams, analyze workforce trends, manage stakeholders and vendors, develop communications, and support practical People solutions across a global professional services firm.

The Executive Assistant will provide administrative support to partners and fee earners, managing calendars, travel arrangements, and document preparation while ensuring timely communication and collaboration within the team.

This role involves acting as the primary IT contact, ensuring reliable services, managing relationships with service providers, and resolving issues that align IT services with business needs.

The Executive Assistant provides administrative support to fee earners, manages calendars, travel arrangements, expenses, and ensures effective communication while maintaining a collaborative and proactive work environment.

Process and apply incoming client payments (wire, ACH, cheque), manage IOLTA/client trust accounts, reconcile cash and trust ledgers, research and resolve unidentified receipts, prepare cash and trust reports, enforce controls, and liaise with Billing, Collections, and AP.

Lead US TMT business development with an AI focus: identify revenue opportunities from AI regulation, M&A, governance and data trends; develop client strategies, communications and targeted outreach; support pitches and major US TMT projects; coach and manage MBD colleagues; collaborate with partners and international teams to drive client relationships and revenue growth.

Lead business development strategy for the Financial Institutions Group, manage key client relationships, and deliver strategic initiatives to support growth.

Lead and transform the US pitch and pursuit process by embedding AI enablement across stages. Manage a searchable global pitch content library, maintain structured experience and CRM data, create reusable pursuit assets and prompt frameworks, and develop training and adoption materials. Partner with BD, lawyers, and global teams to improve workflow, support high-priority pitches, and oversee directory and awards submissions to increase speed, quality, and consistency of wins.

The Executive Assistant will provide administrative support to the Marketing and Business Development team, manage schedules, handle communication, and assist with client events.