Legal & Compliance Expert

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Legal & Compliance Expert for a fully remote, global contractor role. You will design realistic, multi-step legal and compliance tasks with objective grading criteria and reference files, ensuring tasks are answerable by careful reading of materials.

The engagement is project-based, paid per approved task, with compensation up to $90/hour equivalent. Strong English skills (B2 minimum, C1 preferred) are required, and no geographic restrictions apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on responsibility in contract review, due diligence, regulatory compliance, or risk.
• Experience creating or applying structured review standards: checklists, playbooks, or training assessments.
• Ability to reason across multiple documents and spot inconsistencies.
• Law degree and bar admission (or equivalent compliance qualification) is a plus but not required.
• Strong English communication skills, minimum B2, with C1 preferred.
• Experience with AI or LLM evaluation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step tasks drawn from real legal and compliance work — contract review, due diligence, regulatory assessment, risk analysis — with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict on the same output.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup: ones where the right answer depends on reading the materials correctly.
• Create or source the supporting materials each task needs: agreements, policy documents, regulatory texts, diligence files.
• Flag tasks that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable instead of submitting them.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Contract review

Due diligence

Regulatory compliance

Risk analysis

Structured review standards

Reading multiple documents

Strong English communication

Education

Law degree and bar admission

Equivalent compliance qualification

Job description

Role Title: Legal & Compliance Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote, global

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: Up to $90/hour equivalent.

Time per task: ~10 hours per task

Engagement: Project-based — paid per approved task

Location: Fully remote — no geographic restrictions. Strong English required (B2 minimum, C1 preferred)

Next step: Complete the role‑specific AI interview — it’s how your expertise gets in front of the client

Your tasks: Design realistic, multi-step legal and compliance tasks with objective criteria for grading the output

our partner is engaging experienced legal and compliance practitioners to design the tasks that measure what AI systems can actually do. Your domain knowledge is what matters here — no prior AI experience required.

The work is to turn real legal workflows into benchmark tasks: realistic, difficult, and gradable against objective criteria. If you’ve built a review checklist, marked up a junior associate’s draft, or trained a team against a compliance standard, that’s the instinct this needs.

Scope of Work

• Design multi‑step tasks drawn from real legal and compliance work — contract review, due diligence, regulatory assessment, risk analysis — with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict on the same output.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup: ones where the right answer depends on reading the materials correctly.
• Create or source the supporting materials each task needs: agreements, policy documents, regulatory texts, diligence files.
• Flag tasks that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable instead of submitting them anyway.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands‑on responsibility in contract review, due diligence, regulatory compliance, or risk — direct ownership of the work, not supervisory‑only or adjacent exposure.
• Experience creating or applying structured review standards: review checklists, diligence protocols, compliance frameworks, playbooks, or training assessments.
• Comfortable reasoning across multiple documents at once and spotting inconsistencies between them.
• Law degree and bar admission, or equivalent compliance qualification, is a plus but not required — practitioner experience is what matters.
• Strong English, written and spoken — B2 minimum, C1 preferred.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.

How the selection process works

• Apply and complete the screening questions
• Complete the AI interview — this is how we showcase your expertise to the client
• Profile review
• Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up

This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.