Associate Director, E-Discovery

Hilco Global is a diversified financial services, advisory, and capital solutions company with a long-standing reputation for helping clients maximize value, solve complex problems, and navigate critical business moments. Across its platform, Hilco provides a broad range of services and solutions spanning valuation, restructuring, advisory, monetization, transactions, and capital solutions for corporations, lenders, investors, private equity sponsors, boards, and legal counsel.

What differentiates Hilco is the strength and breadth of its platform. The firm is trusted in high-stakes, complex, and often time-sensitive situations where financial, operational, strategic, and legal issues intersect. Hilco brings together deep experience, commercial judgment, and execution capability across the business lifecycle - from healthy companies seeking growth or strategic alternatives to stressed and distressed situations requiring decisive action.

Built on that foundation, Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice. This growing practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations, e-discovery, and other sensitive situations requiring rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear communication.

This is not a standalone niche practice being built in isolation. It is being developed within a powerful platform that already has deep client relationships, strong market credibility, and meaningful adjacency to restructuring, valuation, capital solutions, and other advisory capabilities. For the right professionals, that creates a rare opportunity: the chance to build within an established platform that already matters in the market.

Why Hilco Global

There are many firms that offer investigations, digital forensics, cyber investigations, and e-discovery work. Very few offer the combination of platform strength, market relevance, entrepreneurial upside, and cross-disciplinary opportunity that Hilco does.

Joining Hilco's Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice means joining at a time of strong momentum. The practice is being actively built and expanded, with the benefit of Hilco's broader brand, relationships, and capabilities across capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, advisory, and special situations.

For professionals who are ambitious, commercial, and excited by the idea of helping shape a market-facing practice, Hilco offers a differentiated proposition:

·       A powerful platform behind the practice, with meaningful credibility and access across lenders, investors, boards, law firms, and corporate clients

·       A true build opportunity - the chance to help shape a leading global investigations and disputes offering, not simply join a mature team with limited room to influence direction

·       Complex, high-value matters at the intersection of digital evidence, accounting, finance, investigations, disputes, transactions, restructurings, and distressed situations

·       Cross-platform opportunity, with natural adjacency to Hilco's capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities

·       Meaningful responsibility and career upside for professionals who combine technical excellence, sound judgment, and initiative

At Hilco, professionals are not joining a static organization. They are joining a platform with real market strength and the ambition to build a premier practice.

Position Overview

As an Associate Director in Hilco Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will oversee complex e-discovery matters, manage multiple engagement teams, and serve as a key leader in both execution and practice development.

You will play a significant role in how the practice manages data, review workflows, analytics, productions, quality control, and discovery strategy in investigations, disputes, regulatory inquiries, and litigation-related matters.

This is an especially strong opportunity for professionals who want more than a delivery role. It is a chance to join a platform where they can help shape the direction of a growing, market-facing e-discovery and litigation support capability.

Key Responsibilities

·       Lead large or high-complexity e-discovery matters from planning and scoping through processing, hosting, review management, production, and close-out

·       Oversee multiple workstreams and engagement teams, ensuring quality, responsiveness, defensibility, and cost discipline across discovery workflows

·       Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for clients, external counsel, vendors, managed review teams, and senior stakeholders

·       Direct preparation and review of discovery plans, review protocols, search methodologies, analytics workflows, production specifications, privilege workflows, status reports, and client presentations

·       Advise clients and counsel on discovery strategy, data scoping, proportionality, analytics, review design, production issues, and cost-management opportunities

·       Manage engagement economics, resource planning, timelines, data security, vendor coordination, and risk considerations

·       Coach and develop Managers, Associates, Analysts, review teams, and other team members across active matters

·       Help drive consistency in e-discovery methodology, quality standards, documentation, data handling, and execution across the practice

·       Support proposals, pitches, thought leadership, recruiting, training, technology/vendor relationships, and strategic growth initiatives

·       Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and connect e-discovery work with Hilco's broader investigations, disputes, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities where relevant

Desired Qualifications

·       Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, business, legal studies, accounting, finance, economics, or a related discipline required; candidates with master's degrees or JD degrees are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized

·       Approximately 7-10 years of relevant experience in e-discovery, litigation support, forensic technology, managed review, investigations, disputes, or related consulting services

·       Significant experience managing complex, multi-workstream e-discovery matters and interacting directly with senior clients and counsel

·       Strong technical grounding in the EDRM lifecycle, data scoping, preservation, collection coordination, processing, review design, analytics, production workflows, and quality control

·       Experience with leading e-discovery platforms such as Relativity, RelativityOne, Everlaw, Reveal, DISCO, Nuix, Brainspace, Casepoint, Microsoft Purview, Google Vault, or similar platforms

·       Demonstrated leadership in engagement oversight, team development, client service, vendor management, and review workflow execution

·       Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

·       Professional credentials such as RCA, CEDS, ACEDS, Relativity certifications, PMP, JD, CFE, or other relevant credentials are advantageous

·       Strong judgment and ability to operate effectively in sensitive, high-stakes, deadline-driven matters

·       Willingness to travel based on client and business needs

Annual base salary gross: $160,000 - $225,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end of Hilco’s salary for this position based on geography. Actual base salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base pay is one component of Hilco’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include cash bonuses, long term incentives, health insurance, accident and life insurance, and retirement benefits.

Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.

Hilco Global strives to comply with all applicable local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, Hilco Global is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. https://hilcoglobal.com/careers-about/