Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering

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

Job summary

Wordsmith is seeking a Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering to own full-cycle recruiting for lawyers transitioning into product-facing legal engineering roles. You will source and land candidates, demonstrate hiring metrics, and move quickly through a fair process that tests legal judgment and technical comfort.

In this AI-enabled era, you will shape how AI helps legal teams, while the human judgment and persuasion remain central.

Qualifications

• Extensive full-cycle recruiting across the legal function.
• Experience recruiting lawyers for product-facing roles in a tech context.
• Able to point to concrete hiring numbers and outcomes.
• Comfort with self-sourcing and building talent pipelines.
• Familiarity with ATS tools, especially Ashby, and data-driven hiring.

Skills

Full cycle recruiting

Legal recruiting

Sourcing expertise

Hiring metrics

Ashby ATS

AI in workflow

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

Senior Talent Partner - Legal Engineering

This is a hands on recruiting role for someone who can find and land lawyers who want to move into product facing legal engineering jobs. A strong candidate has years of full cycle recruiting, some of it in legal, and can quickly learn a new field well enough to talk credibly about it. They source most of their own hires, can point to concrete hiring numbers, and run a fast fair process that judges legal judgment and technical comfort.

How it fits the AI era

AI takes over the routine parts of legal work, so the people hired here need to judge where AI helps and where human judgment still decides. The recruiter's own work also shifts, with AI handling sourcing and screening support while the human side of assessing people and persuading them stays central. The role sits close to how AI changes legal teams, so understanding that shift matters.

How it builds AI experience

Working here means learning how AI agents fit into in house legal work and what skills legal engineers need to deploy them with customers. A recruiter can build that knowledge by using AI tools in their own hiring workflow and by studying how legal teams adopt new software. Experience hiring at a legal tech or AI company, or a legal background, would deepen that understanding.

Worth showing

• Full cycle legal recruiting
• Self sourced hires
• Hiring numbers track record
• ATS fluency Ashby
• AI in own workflow

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About Wordsmith

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