Contract Review Expert

Overview

This is an hourly, remote contractor role for a Contract Review Subject Matter Expert (SME). The work involves reviewing AI-generated contract analyses and drafting outputs and/or creating expert contract content. You will evaluate reasoning quality and provide precise, written feedback, including step-by-step issue spotting.

This role does not have an immediate project assigned. If qualified, you will be among the first experts contacted when relevant opportunities arise, with potential access to future projects through the organization’s expert network.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI training content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard contract outputs such as issue lists, redlines, negotiation notes, clause rewrites, and playbook guidance.
• Optimize AI performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, defensibility, clarity, and practical negotiation usefulness.
• Ensure model integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading certainty, confidentiality risks, and bias; validate reliability across contract scenarios.
• Assess contract outputs: Review solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to the prompt.
• Identify contract issues: Detect errors in clause interpretation, risk allocation problems, missing terms, ambiguity, enforceability concerns, and negotiation strategy issues.
• Fact-check legal concepts and citations: Verify legal concepts and citations when required.
• Produce corrective guidance: Write high-quality explanations and model revisions demonstrating correct, risk-aware contract reasoning.
• Compare responses: Rate and compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality.

Requirements

• Education/background: JD/LLB (or equivalent) or Paralegal/Contracts professional background with substantial contract review experience (depending on role level).
• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in contracts (e.g., in-house legal, law firm, procurement, vendor management, legal ops, or contracts management).
• Risk identification: Strong ability to identify and explain contract risk, including liability caps, indemnities, warranties, limitations/exclusions, termination rights, payment risk, and IP ownership/licensing.
• Commercial agreement review/redlining: Experience reviewing and redlining common commercial agreements as applicable, including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, DPAs, SaaS/subscription agreements, vendor/supplier agreements, and services agreements.
• Privacy/security clauses (high level): Comfort reviewing confidentiality, data processing, security standards, breach notification, subcontractors, and audit rights.
• Attention to detail: Ability to spot ambiguity, inconsistent definitions, missing exhibits, conflicting clauses, and misaligned business terms; minimum C1 English proficiency.
• Clear writing for non-legal audiences: Ability to write practical guidance and produce “gold standard” redlines and explanations for non-legal audiences.
• Work style: Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
• Tools (plus): Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and version control is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, legal QA, knowledge management, or template library maintenance is strongly preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly, remote contractor role. Compensation details were not specified in the provided description.

Location

• Remote