Sr. Advisor AI Acceleration & Partner Advisory

Department: Legal Technology & Enablement / AI Acceleration Additional Compensation: Bonus Eligible Onsite Logistics: Hybrid – expected in office 3–4 days per week Coverage: West Coast and Texas Offices Reports To: Senior Manager, AI Acceleration – Partner Concierge & Attorney Advisory The Opportunity Seeking a senior AI and legal technology professional to join a newly created, highly visible team within the firm’s Legal Technology & Enablement function. The Sr. Advisor, AI Acceleration – Partner Concierge & Attorney Advisory will work directly with partners and senior attorneys to accelerate the adoption and effective use of AI across the firm. This is a highly consultative and relationship-driven role designed for someone who combines strong practical AI expertise with the ability to build credibility with senior lawyers, understand how they work, and translate AI capabilities into practical solutions for their practices. Working closely with the Senior Manager, AI Acceleration, fellow AI Advisors, and the broader AI Enablement team, this individual will serve as a senior AI advisor to partners across Firm’s West Coast offices and will also support attorneys in Texas. The overall objective is to build the confidence and proficiency partners need to use AI effectively in their day-to-day practices, client relationships, and business-development efforts. Primary Objectives Build the confidence and proficiency of partners across Firm’s West Coast offices in their use of AI tools, adapting the approach to each partner’s experience level, practice, and individual needs. Develop practical AI solutions for issues raised by partners, ranging from administrative practice needs to business development and client-facing AI questions. Build partner proficiency through direct, hands-on guidance on the firm’s approved AI tools. Provide advisory support on live-matter AI use cases, helping attorneys determine whether AI can add value and which tool is most appropriate for a particular task. Partner with other internal AI teams to address more sophisticated solution requests from partners, attorneys, and matter teams. Contribute to the development of reusable AI solutions, workflows, examples, and materials that can be leveraged across practices and offices. Responsibilities Act as a senior AI advisor to partners across the firm’s West Coast and Texas offices. Build trusted relationships with partners and senior attorneys and serve as a credible resource on practical AI adoption. Orient partners to the firm’s available AI tools, including what the firm has licensed, how attorneys obtain access, and which tools are best suited to different types of work. Receive, triage, and track requests from partners and attorneys and ensure each engagement is followed through to resolution. Facilitate one-on-one and small-group working sessions that take partners from initial access through practical use of AI within their own practices. Develop and maintain session outlines, curricula, worked examples, and other practical training materials for the firm’s AI tools. Contribute successful materials and workflows to the broader AI team so they can be reused and adapted across offices and practices. Develop and refine AI-enabled solutions around the way individual partners and their teams actually work. Personally handle solutions that can be addressed through existing tools and workflows, while engaging other internal AI teams when a request requires additional development or technical expertise. Develop AI talking points, presentations, and other materials that help partners speak confidently with clients regarding the firm’s use of AI. Design and deliver AI sessions for partner audiences in a variety of formats, ranging from individual desk-side coaching to practice-group presentations. Advise attorneys on discrete AI use cases arising in live matters. Evaluate whether AI can add meaningful value to a particular legal or business workflow. Recommend the most appropriate AI tool or workflow for the task. Partner with internal AI teams and practice-group AI solution attorneys where a matter warrants a more customized or purpose-built solution. Maintain appropriate boundaries around the advisory role, focusing on tool selection, workflow design, and effective use of firm-approved AI technologies. Champion a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning around AI. Meet partners and attorneys at their individual level of AI experience and adapt advisory approaches accordingly. Work closely with other AI Advisors and the AI Advisory Analyst to deliver a consistent experience across Firm's offices. Document AI solutions and engagements so that colleagues can understand, reuse, and continue the work when necessary. Maintain current and accurate records of delivered solutions and partner engagements. Stay current on developments in generative AI, legal technology, peer-firm adoption, and broader market trends. Identify emerging AI capabilities and use cases that may be valuable to attorneys and clients. Share insights and best practices across the broader AI Enablement and Legal Technology teams. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Seven or more years of experience in legal technology, innovation, enablement, knowledge management, practice support, or a comparable technology-advisory function. Prior experience within a law firm, professional-services organization, or similarly knowledge-driven environment is strongly preferred. Strong practical fluency with generative AI tools. Demonstrated understanding of how generative AI can be applied to legal, professional-services, and knowledge-work workflows. Strong understanding of how law firm partners lead teams, serve clients, manage matters, and develop business. Ability to identify where AI can improve partner and attorney workflows without overcomplicating the solution. Exceptional stakeholder-management and influencing skills. Proven ability to build credibility with partners, senior lawyers, and other sophisticated professional stakeholders. Demonstrated success driving technology adoption among senior professionals. Ability to translate technical concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-technical audiences. Demonstrated ability to build training programs and materials from scratch, including session outlines, demonstrations, and worked examples. Experience delivering training to senior professional audiences in both one-on-one and group settings. Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and relationship-management skills. Strong listening skills and the ability to uncover the underlying business or practice need behind a partner request. Consultative mindset with the ability to tailor recommendations to different personalities, practices, and levels of technological sophistication. Ability to operate effectively in a newly created function where processes, workflows, and service models are continuing to evolve. Strong organizational skills and ability to track multiple partner engagements and requests simultaneously. Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with other AI, technology, knowledge-management, innovation, and practice-support professionals. Willingness to travel to other U.S. offices as engagements require. #J-18808-Ljbffr Plona Partners