Director Head of Legal Innovation

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PROOF OF WORK THE TEAM We are hiring a Director Head of Legal Innovation to build and scale the systems tools and workflows that power how our legal team operates.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can walk into a legal organization understand how work actually flows — not just how it is supposed to — and design and implement solutions that improve efficiency and scale.

You will own the full stack of legal operations transformation including technology selection workflow architecture AI enablement and change management.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in 0→1 environments enjoys building systems from scratch and prefers shipping solutions over advising on them.

THE OPPORTUNITY ASSESS & DIAGNOSE - Evaluate how legal work currently flows across the organization including intake matter management contracting research advisory work and reporting. - Identify capability gaps inefficiencies and redundancies where the legal team may be underserving the business. - Benchmark current operations against best-in-class practices and emerging technologies to identify improvement opportunities.Design & Implement - Architect and evolve a legal technology stack appropriate for the team’s size complexity and risk profile. - Lead the evaluation selection and implementation of key tools including AI productivity tools CLM platforms legal research and drafting tools and workflow automation systems. - Build scalable internal processes that teams actually adopt and use in their day-to-day work. - Integrate internal and external systems by connecting APIs data sources and tools into unified automated workflows.

AI ENABLEMENT (CORE FOCUS) - Develop and execute a practical AI strategy for the legal team including adoption governance and measurement of impact. - Train and embed AI tools into day-to-day legal workflows such as contract review legal research drafting summarization and triage. - Establish guardrails quality standards and ethical frameworks for responsible AI use. - Continuously monitor the evolving AI landscape and introduce new capabilities that improve efficiency and impact.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT & CULTURE - Lead change management across the legal organization by bringing stakeholders along through transformation initiatives. - Enable adoption among both early adopters and skeptics ensuring new tools and workflows are embraced. - Build internal capability so the legal team can operate independently without relying on a single specialist. - Provide leadership reporting on efficiency improvements operational risk and ROI from technology and automation initiatives.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL - Proven track record building and scaling legal operations systems including legal technology platforms workflow automation and operational processes in complex multi-stakeholder environments - Hands-on experience implementing legal technology solutions such as CLM matter management intake systems spend management knowledge management and AI-enabled legal tools - Strong fluency with AI and workflow automation tools with demonstrated experience designing deploying and driving adoption of AI solutions within legal workflows - Deep understanding of core legal workflows (contracts regulatory investigations litigation intake outside counsel management) and the ability to redesign inefficient processes end-to-end - Systems thinker with a strong implementation mindset — able to move from discovery → design → build → deployment → optimization without relying on external consultants - Ability to translate legal and business needs into technical roadmaps and scalable operational solutions - Experience building metrics dashboards and performance frameworks to measure efficiency cost risk and operational outcomes - Strong communicator who can bridge legal technical and business teams while influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment - Comfortable operating in fast-paced ambiguous environments with a high level of ownership and bias toward execution NICE TO HAVES - Experience in a high-velocity or resource-constrained environment (startup PE-backed company understaffed team) - Familiarity with data privacy information governance or compliance systems - Experience managing vendor relationships and procurement - Exposure to fintech crypto or other regulated fast-paced operational domains #LI-Remote Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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