Director, Litigation Oversight and Compliance

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Bethesda, MD

GEICO is seeking a Director of Litigation Oversight and Compliance to lead litigation oversight and compliance strategy for GEICO Staff Counsel. This role involves setting operational standards, driving performance improvements, strengthening audit readiness, improving governance and policy controls, enhancing case management technology, and delivering clear reporting on risk, metrics, and outcomes. The position requires an active law license and at least 7 years of experience in legal operations, litigation, strategy, program management, or consulting, with demonstrated people-management and senior-level leadership experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee implementation of litigation optimization strategies and compliance initiatives.
  2. Oversee compliance posture, audit readiness, and remediation strategy for Staff Counsel.
  3. Oversee performance calibrations (annual and mid-year).
  4. Oversee technology improvement plans for litigation operations (case-handling processes, workflows, technology, and vendor management).
  5. Collaborate with stakeholders across Claims, internal partners, and outside counsel.

Skills

Required

  • Active law license
  • Legal operations experience
  • Litigation experience
  • Strategy experience
  • Program management experience
  • Consulting experience
  • People-management experience
  • Senior-level leadership experience
  • Data-driven operator
  • Defining KPIs
  • Building reporting
  • Using metrics to drive decisions
  • Compliance leadership
  • Governance leadership
  • Audit readiness
  • Remediation execution
  • Policy and controls management
  • Version control
  • Knowledge management
  • Legal operations acumen
  • Technology acumen
  • Improving case management workflows
  • Partnering with Legal Tech
  • Driving system governance
  • Program management capability
  • Change management capability
  • Scoping initiatives
  • Managing stakeholders
  • Delivering measurable operational improvements
  • Executive communication
  • Influence
  • Judgment to escalate risk appropriately
  • Align leaders
  • Drive accountability with integrity

What the JD emphasized

  • Active law license required
  • Minimum experience required: 7 years