Legal Product Specialist (US)

DraftWise; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Legal Product Specialist, where your expertise will shape the future of legal technology. This role offers the unique opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams, ensuring that innovative features align with the needs of legal professionals. You'll leverage your legal background to translate complex concepts into accessible language, all while staying ahead of industry trends. Enjoy the flexibility of an all-remote work environment and the chance to influence the direction of a product that aims to revolutionize legal workflows. If you're passionate about technology and law, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Equity plan

Private medical care

New laptop and work-from-home stipend

Generous PTO / sick leave

Qualifications

• 3-8 years as a transactional lawyer in Big Law.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating legal agreements.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to develop new features.
• Communicate product value to users and customers.

Skills

Communication Skills

Legal Drafting

Negotiation

Understanding of AI in Legal

Technical Understanding

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Legal Product Specialist

About the Role

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

About You

• 3-8 years experience practicing as a transactional lawyer in Big Law
• Experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing 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