Overview
This role involves serving as a Legal AI Advisor (also known in the market as legal engineering). The position supports attorneys in understanding, adopting, and realizing value from an AI-enabled legal platform and conversational AI experience purpose-built for lawyers.
The Legal AI Advisor is a practicing or former lawyer who brings deep legal expertise and a passion for technology. The role works across the full customer lifecycle with a primary focus on driving lawyer adoption of AI at scale.
Responsibilities
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Engage lawyers as primary users
- Build trusted relationships with lawyers across law firms, corporate legal teams, service providers, and public sector organizations
- Understand customer workflows, pain points, and opportunities for transformation
- Engage partners, associates, and in-house counsel confidently
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Drive pre-sales and adoption conversations
- Partner with Pre-Sales Engineers and Account Executives to support discovery, positioning, and solution alignment
- Lead tailored product demonstrations tied to real legal use cases
- Help secure the “legal win” by ensuring lawyers understand and believe in the value of AI solutions
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Enable post-sales adoption and value realization
- Support onboarding, training, and ongoing engagement to drive sustained usage and adoption
- Guide customers through workflow transformation and AI integration into legal processes
- Partner with Customer Success Managers to ensure adoption translates into measurable impact
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Act as voice of the legal customer
- Provide structured feedback to Product Marketing, Product, and Engineering on needs, usability, and adoption barriers
- Refine product capabilities to better serve attorney workflows
- Contribute to playbooks, best practices, and scalable customer engagement assets
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Bridge legal and technical workflows and knowledge
- Translate complex AI capabilities into practical, actionable insights for legal professionals
- Explain how AI offerings (including claiR and aiR products) will impact specific practice areas and workflows
- Support internal teams in understanding legal user needs and behaviors
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) and Bar admission
- 3+ years of experience practicing law at a law firm [AmLaw is a plus] and/or in-house legal team (litigation experience preferred)
- Strong understanding of legal workflows and challenges faced by lawyers
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to engage both legal and executive audiences
- Curiosity about AI and its potential to transform legal work
- Experience in client-facing roles (e.g., client advisory, legal tech, or business development) is a plus
- Ability to operate comfortably in cross-functional and fast-moving environments
- Hands-on experience with legal AI tools, including Relativity aiR
- First-hand knowledge of litigation workflows
Compensation & Benefits
This position is eligible for total compensation including a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
- Expected salary range: $152,000 and $228,000
- The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity.
- Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Location
Remote/Hybrid. This role reports to the Senior Director, Legal AI Consulting, based in the US.