Senior Legal Data Intelligence Lead

Relativity; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Legal Data Intelligence Lead to bridge the gap between legal expertise and advanced AI technology. This role is pivotal in enhancing the application of generative AI in legal processes, ensuring that the technology meets the needs of litigators. You will engage with clients to explain AI functionalities and gather insights, while also collaborating with internal teams to refine AI solutions. If you are passionate about leveraging AI to improve legal outcomes and possess a strong legal background, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a litigator or legal service provider.
• Hands-on experience with Relativity in diverse workflows.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to explain generative AI systems and gather feedback.
• Collaborate with internal teams to enhance AI solutions.

Skills

Legal Communication

Generative AI Knowledge

Document Review Techniques

Statistical Validation

Education

Juris Doctorate

Tools

Relativity Software

Job description

Posting Type

Hybrid

Job Overview

About AI at Relativity

Every year, the global justice system benefits from the insights of Relativity AI on billions of documents - and we are just getting started on our journey to use AI to improve the outcome of every discovery, investigation, and analysis in Relativity. We are focused on helping our users discover the truth more quickly, organize their data, and act on it with confidence.

At Relativity, we use our AI Principles to guide product development as part of our commitment to developing responsible AI. These principles ensure we build AI with purpose that delivers value for customers, empower customers with clarity and control, keep fairness as a first principle in AI development, champion privacy, place the security of customers' data at the heart of everything we do, and act with a high standard of accountability.

In the AI organization, we believe in exploration, experimentation, and bringing your curiosity to work every day. We know that you can't innovate without experimentation - and a little failure happens on the path to invention. We use the latest and greatest to ensure we are the best. We experiment, evaluate, ship, and learn every day.

About the Applied Science Team at Relativity

Relativity is heavily invested in developing new AI products and features for our customers. Our AI organization spans many teams and functions across Relativity Engineering, including our data engineering team, machine learning operations team, LLM engineering specialists, our product-focused feature teams, and our applied science team.

The applied science team operates at the very center of Relativity's AI development. Our diverse team of specialists has advanced postgraduate training and experience in building and developing models, with collective decades of experience building and managing some of the world's most impactful models at the largest scales of data and computational complexity.

About the Senior Legal Data Intelligence Lead Role

The Senior Legal Data Intelligence Lead is the applied science team's fundamental discovery industry subject matter expert. You will report directly to the head of Applied Science at Relativity, applying your skills and knowledge to every applied science project at Relativity. You'll bring your expertise as a practitioner of litigation and discovery to help us build by leading the evaluation of our key generative AI capabilities. You will be our primary interface to other litigators, both helping us explain how our technology operates to them and taking their feedback and providing it back to our applied science team, conveying the nuances of both the technology and the needs of the litigator persona as you do so.

Job Description and Requirements

Responsibilities

• Work externally with our clients and industry to explain how our generative AI systems work and to receive their feedback on the performance of our generative AI in analyzing and classifying documents, identifying information that needs to be protected, and extracting and curating knowledge.

• Work internally with our applied scientists, product managers, designers, engineers, and customer enablement teams to provide feedback and suggestions on the enablement, performance, usability, and functionality of our generative AI solutions.

• Contribute to Relativity's applied science strategy by leveraging your subject matter expertise to design, build, and improve tests, benchmarks, and other evaluation systems for our generative AI solutions.

Qualifications

• A Juris Doctorate and 5 years of experience practicing in the legal profession as a litigator or equivalent experience working for a legal service provider or legal technology vendor.

• Hands-on experience with Relativity in diverse workflows, including traditional EDRM and broader Legal Data Intelligence use cases.

• Strong and clear communicator, able to synthesize and explain complex technical concepts and results to internal and external audiences.

• Deep interest in the use of generative AI to responsibly advance the practice of law and access to justice.

• Understanding of TAR, statistical validation, and other advanced techniques for document review and analysis.

Compensation

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices. This position is eligible for total compensation including a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives. The expected salary range for this role is between $154,000 and $232,000. The final offered salary will depend on factors such as experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range is not typical to allow for future salary growth.