Strategic Legal AI Pilot Lead

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen is seeking a Strategic Project Lead - Legal to run strategic pilots and research projects for AI model training and evaluation from scoping to implementation. This is a hands-on role bridging customer objectives, legal expertise, and Appen's global delivery capability.

In this role you will own frontier legal AI pilots, shape how legal reasoning and contracts are used for model training, and establish scalable workflows across the organization while ensuring confidentiality and

Qualifications

• JD or equivalent law degree, with 2+ years in private practice, in-house, legal research, or regulatory and compliance work.
• 2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows, or subject-matter initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills when working with attorneys, legal experts, researchers, and customers.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the success of frontier legal AI pilots, taking emerging use cases to validate projects that meet defined standards for legal quality, feasibility, and cost.
• Shape how case law, contracts, statutes, regulatory filings, and legal reasoning are used for model training and evaluation, with appropriate consideration for privilege, confidentiality, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Across Appen's global delivery organization, establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs.
• Success in this role will create legal AI pilots that meet their defined success criteria, trusted partnerships with Researchers and Customers, and proven approaches that can be operationalized across future legal programs.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Legal research

Communication

Regulatory compliance

Education

JD or equivalent law degree

Job description

Appen is seeking a Strategic Project Lead - Legal to run strategic pilots and research projects for AI model training and evaluation from scoping to implementation. This is a hands-on role bridging customer objectives, legal expertise, and Appen's global delivery capability.

In this role you will own frontier legal AI pilots, shape how legal reasoning and contracts are used for model training, and establish scalable workflows across the organization while ensuring confidentiality and