Strategic Project Lead - Legal (Fully Remote)

Appen Limited; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen is seeking a leader to own the success of frontier legal AI pilots, translating emerging use cases into validated projects meeting defined standards for quality, feasibility, and cost.

You will establish workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and the blueprint needed to move pilots into scalable programs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure practical, compliant deployments.

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, plus strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

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.
• Establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Job description

• You will 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.
• You will establish the workflows, expert requirements, quality standards, and operational blueprint needed to move successful pilots into scalable programs.

Requirements:

• 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, plus strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

About Appen:

• Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, partnering with leading AI companies and frontier model developers.
• They foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, valuing curiosity, accountability, and humility.

Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. They specialize in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, and speech recognition, with a global crowd of over 1 million contributors in over 200 countries.