Overview
A leading cloud-based content management and productivity platform for legal professionals is seeking a Manager of Legal Engineering to join their R&D organization. This role focuses on building the discipline of legal engineering by owning the substantive legal quality of AI-driven legal intelligence products. The position involves defining how legal knowledge is structured and evaluated to improve outcomes for legal professionals.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the structure of legal knowledge across various matter types and practice areas, enhancing products such as Legal Context Graph.
- Design and implement evaluation frameworks to rigorously assess legal AI outputs, including briefs, analyses, extractions, and agent results.
- Develop and validate legal skills (structured, executable domain knowledge) that enable AI agents to perform substantive legal tasks accurately.
- Establish coherent legal taxonomies and semantic layers incorporating practice-area ontologies, document typologies, and matter lifecycles.
- Hire, lead, and mentor a small team of legal engineers while maintaining a hands-on role.
- Collaborate across R&D teams including Product, Engineering, and Design to serve as the legal authority for agentic product decisions.
- Anticipate and address the questions legal professionals would ask about matters, document sets, or AI outputs to ensure product relevance and accuracy.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree with 1–3 years of practicing attorney experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
- Continued career involvement in the legal industry through legal technology, knowledge management, innovation leadership, legal data, or related fields.
- Proficiency with modern AI development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) and familiarity with code repositories; ability to lead a technically fluent team.
- Strong analytical and methodical mindset focused on provability, structured thinking, taxonomy, and disciplined testing.
- Deep understanding of legal workflows, including distinctions between litigation, transactions, and document reasoning.
- Ability to operate independently in a high-autonomy environment, translating strategic direction into execution.
- Passion for advancing the agentic future of legal work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or evaluating legal AI products within legal technology companies, law firms, or corporate legal departments.
- Familiarity with legal taxonomies and standards such as FOLIO.
- Contributions to legal engineering, legal innovation, or legal AI communities through publications, open-source projects, or other involvement.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, or quality measurement systems for domain-specific AI.
- Proven ability to hire and lead small, high-impact technical or hybrid teams.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $190,000 - $210,000, including base salary and variable components if applicable.
- 90% of healthcare premiums covered by the employer.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions.
- 401(k) plan with 4% company match and immediate vesting.
- Flexible paid time off (typically 3 to 4 weeks annually).
- 10 paid holidays per year.
- Monthly contributions for life activities and wellness.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with dedicated monthly time for professional development.
Location
This is a hybrid, remote-friendly position.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.