Enterprise Legal Risk Engineer — Taxonomy & Ops Model

Axiom; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 71,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Axiom is seeking an experienced Legal Engineer in Chicago to lead the design and development of a practical, scalable enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for a large organization.

You will align Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business teams, capturing requirements, documenting data structures, and establishing governance and maintenance processes to support ongoing risk management across the company.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal engineering, legal operations, enterprise risk management, GRC, compliance operations, or legal technology.
• Strong understanding of risk taxonomies, ontologies, control frameworks, governance models, and structured data.
• Experience mapping complex legal, privacy, compliance, AI, or regulatory requirements into operational workflows and technology systems.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct current-state assessments and design scalable future-state processes and operating models.
• Experience working across Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, Product, and business stakeholders.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder interviewing, process mapping, and requirements-gathering skills.
• Ability to translate legal and risk concepts into structured fields, classifications, workflows, controls, evidence requirements, and reporting structures.
• Experience implementing or designing workflows within GRC, legal technology, compliance, risk management, or enterprise workflow platforms.
• Strong project management skills, including roadmap development, stakeholder coordination, issue tracking, and executive-level communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an enterprise risk ontology/taxonomy spanning Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business functions.
• Assess how risk is identified, classified, assessed, owned, governed, monitored, and evidenced across the organization.
• Inventory existing risk terminology, categories, classifications, tags, fields, and data structures across tools and processes.
• Interview stakeholders to understand current practices, pain points, and future-state needs.
• Identify inconsistencies, duplication, gaps, ownership issues, and opportunities for standardization across risks.
• Translate the taxonomy into an operating model defining roles, governance, escalation, and maintenance processes.

Skills

Legal engineering

Legal operations

Enterprise risk management

GRC

Compliance operations

Legal technology

Job description

Axiom is seeking an experienced Legal Engineer in Chicago to lead the design and development of a practical, scalable enterprise risk taxonomy and operating model for a large organization.

You will align Legal, Engineering, Privacy, Compliance, AI Governance, and business teams, capturing requirements, documenting data structures, and establishing governance and maintenance processes to support ongoing risk management across the company.