Description
Role details
Scale Up Counsel is helping hire for this position. The employer is introduced when there is a fit, not in this public description.
We need someone who can do both of the following at a high level, together.
At a glance
Product: own prioritization, requirements, success metrics, and iteration from customer and internal input. You can take fuzzy requests and return scoped specs, acceptance criteria, and a plan to validate. Legal engineering: build and refine system instructions, rubrics, and test sets for LLM and rules-backed flows, with honest boundaries on when the system must hand off to a lawyer. You are the person engineering turns to for “what good looks like” and for edge cases in real documents.
Responsibilities (concrete)
Decompose business and personal legal and compliance needs into stepwise, automatable flows; define when escalation is required and what the user should see in plain language.
Design evaluation for outputs (issue ID, risk flags, quality of redlines, plain-English summary, where jurisdiction matters) and run a loop to track drift over time.
Partner with product and engineering on new flows, review criteria, and monitoring; be explicit about failure modes.
Contribute to user-facing product education so expectations match reality.
Work with go-to-market and support when adoption or confusion surfaces product and model issues.
Required
J.D. and bar admission (any U.S. state) with multi-year post-JD experience in a firm or in-house; meaningful depth in at least one of commercial, employment, privacy, consumer, or product-adjacent work, with real drafting and review experience, not only research.
Demonstrable experience shipping or significantly improving document or workflow automation that involved LLMs, including how you tested quality.
Comfort with data at the level of prompt structure, test cases, and small labeled sets; no CS degree required, but you can work with technical counterparts without hand-waving.
Tolerance for a fast, ambiguous environment; you can ship, measure, and revise.
Strong plus
Prior legal tech, innovation, or knowledge-management experience.
Experience coaching non-lawyer teams (sales, success, marketing) on what the system can and cannot do.
Compensation and work arrangement
Compensation, equity, and benefits are discussed with finalists only, not in this public listing.
Interested?
Apply through our attorneys contact form (this role is preselected), or send a referral.