Senior Legal AI Specialist

Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into assets. Contracts move faster, insights surface instantly, and agents push work forward, all with you in control. Whether you’re buying or selling, Ironclad unifies the entire process on one intelligent platform, providing leaders with the visibility they need to stay one step ahead. That’s why the world’s most transformative organizations, from Rivian to the World Health Organization and the Associated Press, trust Ironclad to accelerate their business.

We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

The Senior Legal AI Specialist is a strategic expert focused on bridging the gap between sophisticated legal strategy and AI-driven execution. As a member of the Professional Services team, this role acts as the primary post-sales consultant for “AI-Ready” legal workflows and playbooks, specifically focused on the adoption and optimization of Jurist, Ironclad’s AI redlining agent. As a Senior Legal AI Specialist, you will transform subjective legal nuances into structured logic, ensuring customers achieve measurable efficiency gains and precise risk management.

At this time, we are only hiring for this role out of our San Francisco or New York City offices and are not able to offer remote or other hub locations. Key Skills:

• Educational Background: Juris Doctor (JD) degree is required to ensure empathy and shared vocabulary with our core persona.
• Commercial Expertise: 3–5+ years of experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts (MSAs, SOWs, SaaS agreements). You should understand market-standard positions and fallbacks instinctively.
• Systems Thinking: The ability to deconstruct complex legal “unwritten rules” into structured logic and data-driven guidelines that AI can interpret.
• Strategic Advisory: Experience facilitating workshops or high-stakes consultations; comfortable translating a customer’s risk tolerance into product configurations.
• AI Knowledge: Ability to explain, in plain language, what an LLM is and does to a non-technical lawyer. You don’t need to build models or talk to engineers about architecture, but you understand core concepts well enough to make them legible to legal stakeholders.
• AI Wisdom: A grounded understanding of what AI can and can’t do in practice. You eagerly probe the edges of the technology, critically examine outputs, and can anticipate where AI is likely to fail or introduce risk in a legal context.
• Prompting Expertise: Experience diagnosing why an AI interaction went wrong and iterating on prompts to get better results, particularly in contracting scenarios. You can quickly spot issues in user prompts and coach others toward clearer, more effective instructions.
• Tinkerer Mindset: You like being on the cutting edge. You actively experiment with AI tools—inside and outside of work—to see what they can do, discover new use cases, and bring back patterns that can be standardized for customers.
• Technical Curiosity: While you won’t write code, you have sustained interest in AI technology and a desire to define the future of the AI CLM landscape.
• Communication & Influence: Ability to manage sensitive legal-stakeholder conversations and translate “legal-speak” into actionable requirements for Product and Engineering teams.
• Operational Rigor: A builder mindset. You don’t just solve for one customer; you look for patterns to create repeatable frameworks and standardized assets.
• Guardrail Awareness: Ability to provide industry benchmarks and “legal information” with high integrity, clearly navigating the line between technical consulting and legal advice.
• Values Alignment: Someone who embodies Ironclad’s Values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Operationalize legal risk: Guide customers in moving from subjective instructions to precise, data-driven playbooks and pre-approved clause libraries that maximize AI performance and accuracy.
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