Strategic Project Lead, J.D./Legal Expertise

Role Overview

Lead end-to-end legal and law-related projects for leading AI research customers, turning customer needs into clear specifications, scalable data pipelines, and high-quality delivered work. This remote, full-time role combines legal expertise, project leadership, client communication, and operational execution in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own projects from initial pipeline framing and scope definition through execution and delivery.
• Translate customer requirements into clear, actionable specifications for legal workflows.
• Design and continually improve domain-specific pipelines for usability, accuracy, quality, and scalability.
• Coordinate operations teams and legal domain experts to enable rapid deployment.
• Set delivery milestones and maintain a focused execution cadence.
• Manage client communications with clarity, consistency, and directness.
• Lead legal domain experts and project leads to support quality and on-time delivery.
• Provide daily internal updates covering progress, blockers, and explicit next steps.

Qualifications

• J.D. or equivalent law degree required.
• At least 2 years of professional experience in legal practice, legal research, regulatory or compliance work, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or legal-related initiatives.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, particularly when working with attorneys and senior legal experts.
• Strong ownership, urgency, attention to detail, and an execution-oriented, entrepreneurial mindset.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer requirements into clear plans and move quickly from planning to delivery.
• Comfort working in a high-intensity, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI or machine-learning companies, AI research labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
• Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects.
• Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory or compliance work, or other complex legal workflows.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, AI training workflows, and human-in-the-loop operations.

Work Terms

• Full-time, remote position.

Compensation

• The listing indicates annual compensation of $400, 000 to $550, 000.
• The stated national base-salary range is $180, 000 to $230, 000 USD.
• Employees are eligible for equity compensation and may receive performance-based bonuses, depending on role and company policy.
• Benefits include up to 100% reimbursement for health-insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with company match, and additional benefits for a high-performing remote workforce.

Eligibility

Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.