Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering

Wordsmith AI Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wordsmith is building the in-house legal operations platform and is growing fast in the AI era. We seek senior recruiters who can shape our talent for senior roles in legal engineering, partnering with product and engineering teams to hire top talent.

You'll own the recruiting pipeline, map talent across firms and in-house teams, and leverage AI tools to drive performance and faster hires in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting for legal tech or AI teams preferred.
• Ability to onboard into new areas quickly.

Responsibilities

• Deliver bar-raising legal engineers each quarter.
• Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process.
• Map legal talent across law firms, in-house teams, legal ops and legal tech.
• Assess what matters: legal judgment, comfort with AI and data.
• Work with stakeholders on how archetypes change with the market.
• Report on your funnel weekly and fix what data shows.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Hiring in legal

Ashby ATS

AI-assisted workflow

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

Wordsmith

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast.

We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems.

Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens.

We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.

The Role

Legal engineers are how Wordsmith wins: lawyers who shape the product, deploy it with customers and prove what AI can do for an in-house team. The best of them are not looking for jobs. They're senior associates, in-house counsel and legal ops leads who haven't yet heard a strong case for leaving law. You'll find them, assess both their legal judgment and their technical aptitude, and convince them this is the next step in their career. This is not a coordination role.

What You'll Do

• Deliver bar-raising legal engineers each quarter

• Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process that is optimized to hire the best talent vs the best interviewers.

• Map legal talent across law firms, in-house teams, legal ops and legal tech, and build pipelines before roles open

• Assess what matters: legal judgment, comfort with AI and data, and the ability to work with customers and engineers

• Work with stakeholders on how the archetype of who we hire changes as the market does

• Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with at least some exposure of hiring in legal

• You are quick at onboarding into a new area; you are able to get a deep understanding of a new role and/or new area and quickly present yourself as a knowledgeable voice

• A track record you can put numbers on: hires per quarter, offer acceptance, how your hires performed

• Most of your recent hires sourced by you

• Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS, and real use of AI in your own workflow

Valued

• Hired for a legal tech or AI company

• Hired hybrid roles that blend a profession with product or engineering

• A legal background yourself