Overview
This hourly, remote contractor role involves working as a Contract Review Subject Matter Expert (SME) to review AI-generated contract analyses and drafting outputs or to create expert contract content. The role requires evaluating reasoning quality and issue spotting step-by-step while providing precise written feedback. Responsibilities include assessing solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to prompts; identifying errors in clause interpretation, risk allocation, missing terms, ambiguity, enforceability concerns, and negotiation strategy; fact-checking legal concepts and citations when required; writing high-quality explanations and model revisions demonstrating correct, risk-aware contract reasoning; and rating and comparing multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.
There is no immediate project available for this role. However, qualified candidates will be among the first contacted when relevant opportunities arise and will gain access to future projects through the expert network.
Responsibilities
- Develop AI training content by creating detailed prompts and gold-standard contract outputs such as issue lists, redlines, negotiation notes, clause rewrites, and playbook guidance.
- Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, defensibility, clarity, and practical negotiation usefulness.
- Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias; validate reliability across various contract scenarios.
Requirements
- JD/LLB (or equivalent) or Paralegal/Contracts professional background with substantial contract review experience, depending on role level.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in contracts, including in-house legal, law firm, procurement, vendor management, legal operations, or contracts management.
- Strong ability to identify and explain contract risks such as liability caps, indemnities, warranties, limitations/exclusions, termination rights, payment risk, and IP ownership/licensing.
- Experience reviewing and redlining common commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, DPAs, SaaS/subscription agreements, vendor/supplier agreements, and services agreements.
- Familiarity with privacy and security clauses at a high level, including confidentiality, data processing, security standards, breach notification, subcontractors, and audit rights.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to spot ambiguity, inconsistent definitions, missing exhibits, conflicting clauses, and misaligned business terms.
- Minimum C1 English proficiency.
- Ability to write clear, practical guidance and produce gold-standard redlines and explanations suitable for non-legal audiences.
- Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and version control.
- Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, legal quality assurance, knowledge management, or template library maintenance.
Desired Skills
Issue spotting, risk allocation, negotiation support, commercial agreements, contract review, clause drafting, indemnities and liability, data privacy/security terms, redlining, English proficiency.
Location
Remote contractor role with flexibility to work across time zones.