Head of AI Innovation & Strategy

Mishcon De Reya; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mishcon de Reya is seeking an AI and Innovation Lead to shape and deliver the firm's AI agenda across legal practice, ops, and service models. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, partner with Technology and senior stakeholders, and drive practical, scalable AI-enabled solutions grounded in real user needs.

You will translate ideas into MVPs and pilots, embed AI into workflows, and help shape external partnerships to accelerate delivery while ensuring alignment with professional standards and

Qualifications

• Strong product and innovation leadership across discovery to scale.
• Excellent stakeholder management across legal and business teams.
• Great commercial judgement balancing value, risk and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead Mishcon's AI and innovation portfolio across practice and ops.
• Prioritise opportunities by strategy, user needs, feasibility and value.
• Balance quick wins with long-term capability building and trust.
• Champion practical, responsible innovation with high standards.
• Lead discovery, design and incubation of AI-enabled products and services.
• Collaborate with lawyers, business teams and leaders on needs.
• Build relationships with legal tech startups and vendors.
• Translate ideas into MVPs, pilots or prototypes with clear hypotheses.
• Embed AI into real workflows; reduce time and cost-to-serve.
• Move initiatives from pilots to repeatable, supported use.

Skills

Product Leadership

Innovation Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Commercial Judgement

Cross-functional Collaboration

Change Management

AI in Legal

Communication Skills

Tools

MS Power Platform

Job description

Mishcon de Reya is seeking an AI and Innovation Lead to shape and deliver the firm's AI agenda across legal practice, ops, and service models. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, partner with Technology and senior stakeholders, and drive practical, scalable AI-enabled solutions grounded in real user needs.

You will translate ideas into MVPs and pilots, embed AI into workflows, and help shape external partnerships to accelerate delivery while ensuring alignment with professional standards and