Senior AI Acceleration and Adoption Lead

Main Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

AI Platform Expertise

• Maintain expert-level, hands-on fluency with Claude, Harvey, Gemini, and other AI and legal AI platforms adopted by the firm, including new features, prompt engineering techniques, and known platform limitations.
• Serve as an escalation point for advanced or unusual platform questions from business services staff across EU/Asia.
• Evaluate new AI tools and platform updates, representing administrative and business services user needs in vendor discussions and firm-wide platform evaluations.
• Translate platform capabilities into role-specific workflows and use cases for practice assistants, secretaries, and other administrative teams.

Training & Enablement Delivery

• Design and deliver in-person and virtual training sessions, workshops, and drop-in ‘office hours’ for London and EU/Asia-based business services staff.
• Develop training materials, playbooks, quick-reference guides, and recorded content tailored to EU/Asia audiences.
• Track training participation and platform usage/adoption metrics, and report on outcomes to firm leadership.

Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with London and EU/Asia business services leadership, office managers, and department heads to identify enablement priorities and address adoption barriers.
• Support change management planning for AI-related technology rollouts affecting EU/Asia administrative teams.
• Act as regional liaison between the global AI Enablement team and EU/Asia offices, ensuring regional feedback informs the firm’s global AI strategy.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Collaborate with business services groups to incorporate AI, legal technology, or find other opportunities to streamline and increase workflow efficiencies wherever possible.
• Provide guidance and informal mentorship to administrative staff developing their own AI fluency, and to junior enablement team members as the team scales.
• Collaborate with Legal Technology Portfolio, Strategy and Ops, IT, Information Security, Compliance, and other teams on responsible, compliant use of AI tools involving firm and client data.

Person Specification

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in promoting change through the adoption of technology, change management, and business process improvement in professional organisations.
• Demonstrated, expert-level, hands-on proficiency with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Harvey, plus working knowledge of other generative AI and legal AI platforms — able to train others, troubleshoot advanced use cases, and speak credibly to platform capabilities and limitations.
• Prior experience designing and delivering technology training programmes to non-technical, professional audiences.
• Strong understanding of the working practices of legal administrative and business services teams.
• Familiarity with UK/EU data protection considerations (UK GDPR) as they relate to AI tool usage is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Right to work in the UK/EU required.

Location & Travel

• Based in the firm’s London office; working arrangement in line with firm policy (typically 3–4 days per week in-office).
• Frequent travel to other EU offices and, periodically, to other global offices for team meetings and training.

Weil offers a competitive compensation package which comprises of base salary and discretionary year-end bonus (for eligible employees). Benefits include, but are not limited to Contributory Pension Scheme, Life Assurance (4 x annual salary), Income Protection Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, GP Service, 25 days holiday, Subsidised Staff Restaurant, Health Screening, Annual Well Being Allowance, On-site Gym, Employee Assistance Programme and Season Ticket Loan.

Weil is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to encouraging inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. It is our policy to attract, train, compensate and develop based on merit and without regard to gender, race, social or economic background, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, age, or any other category protected by applicable law. You can find out more about inclusion at Weil here.

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