Legal Product Specialist (UK)

Draftwise; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A legal technology firm seeks a Legal Product Specialist to be the voice-of-the-customer. The role includes working with teams to develop AI applications, providing feedback, and communicating product value to users. Candidates should have 5-8 years experience as a transactional lawyer, with outstanding communication skills to bridge legal and technical concepts. This position offers a competitive salary, equity plan, and an all-remote work style.

Benefits

Equity plan

Competitive salary

Private medical care

Work-from-home stipend

Generous PTO / sick leave

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience as a transactional lawyer in Big Law.
• Experience drafting and negotiating legal agreements.
• Basic understanding of software and eagerness to learn about AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Keep up-to-date with AI and legal industry trends.
• Work closely with the Product team to define vision for new applications.
• Validate output of generative AI models and provide labeled data.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of legal concepts

Ability to translate complex concepts

Research skills in legal and AI trends

Job description

As a Legal Product Specialist you will be the internal voice-of-the-customer at DraftWise. You will work closely with our Product, Design and Engineering teams in the development and testing of new features and you will help shape our understanding of drafting, negotiation and review workflows for lawyers. You will also help communicate the value of our product to new users and customers.

In order to succeed in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator, capable of understanding technical concepts and translating complex legal concepts into terms non-lawyers can interpret.

Your day-to-day work will be a mix of:

• Keeping up-to-date with fast moving AI and legal industry trends
• Identifying truly useful applications of LLMs to the legal industry based off of your own knowledge and through interviews with other legal professionals
• Working closely with the Product team to define the vision for new DraftWise applications
• Testing new DraftWise applications and providing detailed feedback to the Design and Engineering teams
• Validating the output of generative AI models and providing labeled data to assist with the fine-tuning of such models
• Joining user and sales calls to help communicate the value of DraftWise to fellow legal professionals

We are a small team and expect all members to flexibly help wherever the company needs them the most - if you have an idea for what DraftWise needs, we want to empower you to pursue that project. You will have broad ownership over your initiatives, the ability to shape our culture as we grow and flexibility over your schedule..

What we value

• Strong communication skills in an open environment.
• Creating an environment of trust through well-intentioned feedback.
• Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• Interest in working in a dynamic environment with dynamic objectives.

About You

• 5-8 years experience practicing as a transactional lawyer in Big Law
• Experience drafting, negotiating and reviews legal agreements
• Outstanding communication skills and a flair for breaking complex legal concepts down into terms non-lawyers can understand
• Basic understanding of software and technical products and an eagerness to learn more about product development and the application of AI in the legal industry
• Passion for building a product to help legal professionals
• Technical experience as a software engineer or similar role is a nice-to-have
• In-house experience is a nice-to-have

What we offer

• All-remote work style, work anywhere. Ideally within UTC+4 to UTC-7
• Equity plan
• Competitive salary
• Private medical care
• New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Opportunity to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world