Senior Manager

About Ashurst Advance:

Ashurst Advance is a global leader in the delivery of innovative and digitally enabled legal services. Leveraging our deep experience across delivery, managed services, digital, legal operations and flexible resourcing, we work seamlessly with our legal advisory and risk consulting teams to provide fully integrated solutions to address our client's most complex legal challenges.

The future of legal services is at the centre of the firm's strategy, and we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our objectives and grow our unique offering. By joining us you will be at the forefront of change in the legal industry and part of a team devoted to innovation, global collaboration, diversity, and growth. We also offer award winning Learning & Organisational Development and Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging programs and a range of benefits including, subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complimentary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses (in accordance with our bonus scheme), flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few.

If you are looking for a career with a difference and want to be part of a global team working with high profile clients doing cutting-edge work, we would love to hear from you.

About the role:

The Senior Manager, Digital Enablement plays a pivotal role in building a digitally fluent global workforce that is confident and capable in leveraging digital tools, data insights, and emerging AI technologies to deliver legal services of the future. This is a new role in a growing team and can sit in Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney.

This role designs, delivers, and continuously evolves digital, data, and AI literacy programmes across the firm's global network—tailored to different experience levels, roles, and jurisdictions—and drives engagement through high-impact enablement initiatives such as hackathons, design sprints, innovation pop-ups, and experiential campaigns.

The Senior Manager is a strategic advisor and creative catalyst, partnering across business units, practices, and regions to foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and responsible innovation. They apply change-enablement and behavioural science insights to embed new capabilities and partner with risk and AI governance to ensure all literacy initiatives align with responsible AI and ethical standards.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site as it goes into more detail about the role and what we can offer.

About you:

• 5-8+ years' experience designing and delivering capability-building programmes in digital, data, or AI within professional services or global organisations.
• Experience in learning design and programme management with an understanding of behavioural science principles.
• Strong understanding of digital transformation, emerging technologies, and AI in legal and professional services.
• Experience in a law firm, legal operations, or consulting environment is desirable.
• Proficiency in digital learning tools and analytics platforms (e.g. Power BI) is desirable.
• Proven ability to translate complex tech topics into practical, engaging learning experiences.
• Experience facilitating interactive workshops, hackathons, or innovation sprints.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across senior levels.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.