We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced legal professional with strong project leadership, legal-domain expertise, stakeholder management, data operations, and human-data workflow experience to lead complex initiatives supporting advanced AI organisations and legal-focused data projects.
The role combines legal expertise with end-to-end project execution. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear project specifications, design and improve legal-domain workflows, coordinate Operations and Legal subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders. A JD or equivalent law degree is required.
Key Responsibilities
Project & Legal Workflow Leadership
- Own complex projects from scoping through execution and final delivery
- Translate strategic objectives and customer requirements into structured project plans
- Define workstreams, milestones, dependencies, quality standards, and deliverables
- Design workflows for legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory, and compliance-related tasks
- Resolve blockers quickly and maintain delivery momentum
Data Operations & Quality
- Design and refine legal-domain data pipelines and human-data workflows
- Coordinate expert-driven annotation, review, and evaluation processes
- Improve workflow efficiency, scalability, and operational reliability
- Establish quality-control and review procedures
- Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements
Stakeholder & Team Management
- Work closely with attorneys, senior Legal experts, Operations teams, and project leads
- Own client communication across scope, quality, timing, progress, and risk
- Align contributors around clear responsibilities and execution expectations
- Provide concise updates, feedback, and next steps
- Support rapid deployment of expert teams for new project needs
AI & Human-Data Project Delivery
- Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, and human-generated legal data
- Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems
- Apply legal-domain judgement to project specifications and evaluation criteria
- Maintain strong execution across legal, operational, and technical workstreams
- Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives
Ideal Profile
- JD or equivalent law degree required
- 2+ years of experience in legal practice, legal research, regulatory/compliance, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or legal-related initiatives
- Strong legal-domain knowledge and project-management skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from ambiguity through delivery
- Strong stakeholder-management and cross-functional coordination skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work effectively with attorneys and senior Legal professionals
- Strong attention to detail, ownership, urgency, and operational discipline
- Experience with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, or regulatory/compliance work is valuable
- Experience with legal, technical, or data-intensive projects is advantageous
- Familiarity with AI/ML organisations, data annotation, evaluation workflows, or human-in-the-loop systems is beneficial
Engagement Details
- Full-time engagement
- Fully remote
- Compensation: $400,000–$550,000/year
- Work will involve strategic project leadership, legal workflows, stakeholder management, data operations, human-data pipelines, project delivery, and cross-functional coordination
- A JD or equivalent law degree is required
- Responsibilities may span legal research, contract analysis, litigation workflows, regulatory/compliance work, AI-training operations, and expert evaluation
- Regular communication with customers, Legal domain experts, Operations teams, and project leads is expected
- Project scope, priorities, customer requirements, and workflows may evolve based on business needs
- Work must be completed without using confidential, privileged, proprietary, client-identifiable, sealed, regulated, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any client, law firm, court matter, employer, government entity, financial institution, or other third party
About the Platform
This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.
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