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Senior AI Legal Engineer
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Senior AI Legal Engineer
Senior AI Legal Engineer
Location: UK, Remote
We are expanding our team with a fast-growing legal technology business, hiring a Senior AI Legal Engineer to assist enterprise legal teams in constructing AI-native legal functions. This role isn’t a traditional legal counsel position—it sits at the intersection of legal expertise, AI, legal operations, consulting, and product strategy.
You’ll work closely with senior legal stakeholders, including Heads of Legal, General Counsels, procurement teams, and legal operations leaders, to guide them in:
- Redesigning business processes
- Operating model development
- Embedding AI into legal workflows
The ideal candidate will blend strong legal foundation knowledge, preferably with post-qualification experience, and the ability to build credibility with enterprise clients. They must grasp how commercial contracts are drafted, negotiated, reviewed, and managed, while translating customer challenges into scalable AI-driven solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise enterprise legal teams on constructing AI-native legal functions.
- Help customers with legal operating model design, process improvement, and workflow optimisation.
- Identify bottlenecks in critical workflows, including:
- Contract review
- Negotiation
- Approval processes
- Knowledge management
- Convert legal and commercial pain points into scalable, productised AI solutions.
- Collaborate with customers to challenge legacy processes and propose industry best practices.
- Ensure seamless partnership between product and implementation teams to deliver practical, legally robust, and commercially relevant solutions.
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, including: General Counsels, Heads of Legal, procurement managers, and commercial leaders.
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Key Requirements
Legal & Commercial Background
✅ Qualified lawyer status is mandatory. ✅ Strong post-qualification experience, ideally gained:
- In-house
- Private practice
- Legal technology or legal transformation environments
Technical & Strategic Knowledge
✅ Deep expertise in legal drafting and negotiation with a comprehensive understanding of commercial contracting—including risk allocation. ✅ hands-on experience in:
- Legal operations
- Process design
- CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management)
- Contracting workflows
- Legal transformation initiatives
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AI & Technology Insertion
✅ Profound expertise in applying AI across various facets of legal and commercial workflows:
- AI for contract review & negotiation
- Playbook-assisted contracting
- Knowledge management automation
- Enhanced legal service delivery
Consulting & Leadership
✅ Strong consulting skills, including confidence in:
- Engaging with clients
- Challenging outdated practices
- Providing practical, data-driven improvements ✅ Exceptional stakeholder management and strong executive presence.
Commercial Understanding
✅ Ability to balance legal risk, speed, efficiency, and business objectives in negotiations and decision-making.
Why This Role?
This is a uniquely exciting opportunity for legally trained professionals looking to break beyond traditional legal advisory. Here, you’ll help shape how AI transforms enterprise legal operations, ensuring high-impact, scalable solutions that power the future of commercial legal practice.
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