The Role
This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious Associate Director to join Teneo’s growing Forensic Technology & eDiscovery practice.
You’ll lead complex litigation, investigation and regulatory matters across the full EDRM lifecycle, working alongside a high-performing team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
We’re looking for a driven forensic technology professional who thrives on challenge, delivers sharp, independent advice, and is ready to accelerate their career in a team built for growth.
Key Responsibilities
As a Forensic Technology & eDiscovery Associate Director you will have the opportunity to:
- Advise clients on best-in-class data governance, preservation and defensible collection strategies across complex ESI and physical data environments.
- Lead end-to-end eDiscovery engagements; from collection and processing through early case assessment, review, analysis and production in Relativity.
- Drive high-stakes matters with precision, managing multiple concurrent projects under regulatory and court-imposed deadlines.
- Oversee data handling and analytics workstreams, ensuring quality, risk control and defensible outcomes throughout.
- Serve as a trusted day-to-day client lead, anticipating challenges, resolving issues and elevating strategic considerations where needed.
- Continuously enhance team capability by refining operating procedures, delivering targeted training and coaching junior professionals.
- Contribute to business development efforts and support proposition growth alongside senior leadership.
- Support engagements that may involve occasional national or international travel.
Key Skills & Experience
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years’ forensic technology experience within a consulting environment; ideally from a strategy or management consultancy, Big 4, or corporate internal consulting function.
- Deep technical expertise across forensic technology and eDiscovery, with strong hands-on capability in Relativity (data processing, early case assessment, review, analysis and production).
- Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) required; Expert or Master-level certifications highly desirable.
- A commercially minded, ambitious professional who thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-performance environment.
- Strong client leadership skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, strategic advice for non-technical stakeholders.
- A proven mentor and coach, committed to developing junior talent and strengthening team capability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relativity Server or RelativityOne, Nuix, BrainSpace, Reveal or other such eDiscovery solutions.
About Teneo
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.
Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.
Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG.
The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 45+ offices around the world.