Director, Legal Industry Programs

Overview

This role involves leading and expanding institutional partnerships and programs within the professional legal community to establish an AI platform for legal professionals as a trusted, publicly recommended, and taught resource. The focus is on building relationships with bar associations, access to justice organizations, specialty legal groups, and the legal innovation ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage partnerships with state, local, and specialty bar associations, including co-branded CLE programs on AI competency and ethics.
• Support bar AI task forces and ethics committees with content and expertise.
• Establish the AI platform as the named tool in bar-endorsed AI training.
• Collaborate with legal aid organizations, pro bono programs, and public interest law groups to extend AI-assisted legal services to underserved communities.
• Build programs and evidence demonstrating the use of AI to expand access to legal help.
• Cultivate relationships and programming with specialty and affinity bar associations, including those representing diverse attorney populations.
• Engage with practice-area focused legal organizations where AI adoption decisions are made.
• Develop presence in the legal innovation community, including chief innovation officers and legal tech leads at major firms.
• Create programming, forums, and content partnerships positioning the AI platform as recommended by legal innovators.
• Build mechanisms to integrate program outcomes such as bar endorsements, ethics frameworks, and case studies into marketing, communications, and sales efforts to enhance institutional credibility.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in legal industry programs, bar association work, legal aid, access to justice, professional services, or related fields.
• Proven experience building programs and institutional partnerships beyond event management.
• Existing relationships or a clear path to quickly develop them within bar associations, legal aid organizations, specialty legal communities, or the legal innovation ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of the bar association landscape, including state bar operations, CLE accreditation, ethics committees, and partnership decision processes.
• Ability to balance institutional relationship-building with commercial accountability, recognizing that program credibility drives sales pipeline.
• Excellent written communication skills, capable of producing CLE co-sponsorship proposals and community program pitches.
• Genuine commitment to access to justice as a core program priority.
• JD degree or deep legal industry fluency is strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AI adoption in the legal profession.
• Familiarity with legal ethics opinions and continuing legal education mandates related to AI.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range for eligible U.S. locations: $137,200 - $254,800 USD.
• Base salary range for Ontario, Canada: $155,000 - $205,000 CAD.
• Eligibility for annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and a competitive 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, paid holidays, parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
• Additional benefits such as tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, fitness reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible work arrangements including work-from-anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.

Location

This position supports evolving business needs and offers flexible work options. Specific location details are not provided.

Additional Information

• The recruitment process utilizes AI tools to support candidate assessment, with final decisions made by human recruiters.
• The role is open due to an existing vacancy.
• The job posting will close on 08/01/2026.

The organization is committed to equal employment opportunity and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.