The Director of Client Experience will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive client experience strategy within a rapidly growing, fully remote legal services organization. This role offers the opportunity to build a dedicated client experience function from the ground up, ensuring client feedback drives continuous improvement across the entire case lifecycle. You will oversee client escalations, satisfaction measurement, and detractor recovery initiatives while establishing clear service standards and accountability frameworks. Working closely with senior attorneys, operational leaders, and cross-functional teams, you will turn client insights into actionable improvements. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, requiring strong analytical capabilities, operational ownership, and the ability to influence stakeholders. Your work will directly strengthen client trust, improve service quality, and support long-term growth through stronger relationships, referrals, and client advocacy.
Client Experience Strategy: Own the execution of the client experience strategy across every stage of the case lifecycle, including intake, prelitigation, litigation, settlement, and disbursement. Define service standards, establish clear expectations, and ensure consistent, high-quality client interactions throughout the process.
Client Escalation Management: Design, implement, and manage the end-to-end client escalation process, including issue detection, prioritization, routing, and resolution. Establish a tiered escalation framework based on severity and case value, ensuring concerns reach the appropriate case managers, team leaders, or attorneys.
Stakeholder Accountability: Partner with managing attorneys and market or regional leaders to monitor service-level agreement (SLA) adherence, track resolution progress, and ensure timely follow-up. Maintain centralized visibility into escalations across multiple states and identify recurring issues requiring operational intervention.
NPS and Client Feedback Programs: Develop and manage the Net Promoter Score (NPS) program, including survey touchpoints aligned with key case milestones. Integrate survey results, client comments, online reviews, and feedback from client-facing teams into a comprehensive listening strategy.
Detractor Recovery: Own the full recovery process for dissatisfied clients, from identifying low satisfaction scores to assigning follow-up actions and monitoring resolution. Analyze feedback trends and communicate recurring concerns to relevant stakeholders to drive measurable improvements.
Case Closure and Client Advocacy: Manage the client experience from settlement through final disbursement, ensuring clear communication, appropriate expectation setting, and timely resolution of outstanding concerns. Oversee closing surveys and personalized client appreciation initiatives while creating opportunities for satisfied clients to provide reviews and referrals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with compliance, technology, operations, analytics, and learning and development teams to ensure client experience initiatives meet regulatory and ethical requirements. Coordinate data flows between case management systems and centralized dashboards, and develop playbooks, training materials, and coaching resources to improve service consistency.
Performance Reporting and Optimization: Monitor key performance indicators, including escalation volume, SLA adherence, resolution rates, and client satisfaction, across teams and markets. Collaborate with analytics partners to maintain reporting dashboards, identify improvement opportunities, and prioritize initiatives based on measurable business impact.
AI-Enabled Process Improvement: Explore and implement AI-enabled service design and workflow improvements that strengthen operational efficiency, enhance feedback analysis, and support a more consistent client experience.