Technology Meeting Engineer
Santa Monica, CA - USA
Job Summary
Cooley is seeking a Meeting Engineer to join the technology team.
Position summary: The Technology Meeting Engineer is responsible for the firms strategy governance support and lifecycle management of the firms Zoom platform and global meeting services. This role ensures reliable secure and high-quality meeting experiences across all offices by designing scalable Zoom architectures establishing operational standards and leading global meeting support operations. The Technology Meeting Engineer oversees the design configuration and lifecycle management of Zoom Rooms Zoom Webinars Zoom Phone integrations and related AV technologies. The role partners closely with Audio Visual Network Security and Office Technology Managers to ensure collaboration technologies are standardized secured optimized and consistently supported across the firm. They are responsible for platform architecture operational governance user support strategies and vendor coordination. This position also leads the meeting support teams responsible for assisting attorneys and staff with high-profile meetings firmwide events executive-level conferencing and ensures seamless meeting delivery. Specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Position responsibilities:
CORE AV / Collaboration Platform Architecture:
- Design and maintain the firmwide Zoom architecture including Zoom Rooms Zoom Meetings Zoom Webinars and platform integrations
- Define global standards for meeting configurations room profiles licensing models and platform governance
- Ensure consistent deployment standards for Zoom-enabled meeting spaces across offices
- Oversee lifecycle management upgrades and refresh strategies for Zoom platform components
- Develop documentation for system configurations security settings and operational procedures
Meeting Support Operations:
- Lead the meeting support team responsible for real-time meeting assistance and troubleshooting
- Develop support protocols for executive meetings client events webinars and large-scale firmwide broadcasts
- Coordinate coverage across time zones to ensure 24/7 meeting support readiness
- Define escalation procedures and incident response workflows for meeting disruptions
- Enforce service level consistency and deliver exceptional meeting experiences
Vendor & Platform Management:
- Serve as primary liaison with Zoom and related collaboration vendors
- Manage platform upgrades new feature evaluations and rollouts and service enhancements
- Evaluate new collaboration tools and integrations that enhance meeting experiences
- Monitor vendor performance licensing utilization and platform health metrics
Collaboration with Office Technology Managers (OTM):
- Partner with OTMs on conference room deployments and Zoom Room integrations
- Provide architectural guidance for meeting technology deployments in new offices or redesigned conference rooms
- Support OTMs with escalated Zoom troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Deliver knowledge transfer training and operational documentation to local office technology teams
Technical Operations:
- Oversee day-to-day health and performance of the firms Zoom environment
- Manage platform configurations policies security settings and user provisioning
- Coordinate troubleshooting of escalated conferencing issues across AV network and infrastructure teams
- Monitor system performance adoption metrics and usage trends
Security & Compliance:
- Ensure all Zoom configurations adhere to firm security policies and governance standards
- Coordinate with the Security team on encryption authentication and access control measures
Training & User Experience:
- Define and drive firmwide AV and collaboration training strategy in partnership with Learning & Adoption and training teams
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for AV Zoom Rooms and collaboration technologiesestablishingbest practices standards and training content frameworks
- Partner with Learning & Adoption to enable scalable training delivery ensuring consistent and high-quality end-user education across offices
- Develop core training materials playbooks and standards whileleveragingtraining teams to execute firmwidedelivery
- Ensuretraining programs align with AV standards user experience goals and technology adoption objectives
- Continuously improve user experience and meeting qualitythrough feedback analytics and training effectiveness
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite iManage and other firm applications
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours as required
- Ability to travel as required
- 4 years directly applicable experience (e.g. managing enterprise collaboration platforms or conferencing environments). Senior candidates considered with 5 years applicable experience.
- Experience designing and managing Zoom enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of Zoom Rooms Webinars and enterprise collaboration ecosystems
- Experience supporting executive-level meetings and high-visibility events
- Strong troubleshooting documentation and platform governance skills
- Ability to coordinate support across multiple offices and time zones
Preferred:
- Bachelors degree
- Experience working in professional services or law firm environment
- Experience integrating Zoom with AV platforms (Crestron QSC DTEN etc.)
- Knowledge of conferencing technologies networking fundamentals and AV-over-IP environments
Competencies:
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills
- Strong cross-team collaboration skills
- Strong project management and operational leadership abilities
- Proactive organized and customer-service focused
- Entrepreneurial by nature
- Excellent attention to detail
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
- Ability to organize prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
- Ability to drive projects to completion and achieve goals
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information projects
- client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
- Proactive analytical mindset
- Effective presentation skills
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.
EOE.
The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $115000 - $160000. Senior level candidates may be considered for this position and would be eligible for a higher salary range based on experience. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical health savings account (with applicable medical plan) dental vision health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts pre-tax commuter benefits life insurance AD&D long-term care coverage backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support addition to elective benefit options benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance AD&D LTD short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
Required Experience:
IC
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