Legal Product Specialist (UK)
Job Description
- Technical experience as a software engineer
- In-house legal experience
- 5-8 years practicing as a transactional lawyer in Big Law
- Experience drafting, negotiating and reviews legal agreements
- Outstanding communication skills
- Ability to break down complex legal concepts
- Basic understanding of software/technical products
- Eagerness to learn about product development and AI in law
- Passion for building products for legal professionals
- All-remote work style
- Equity plan
- Competitive salary
- Private medical care
- New laptop and work-from-home stipend
- Generous PTO / sick leave
- Opportunity to lead company initiatives
DraftWise is at the forefront of AI in the legal industry, building a secure knowledge platform that helps lawyers at elite law firms draft, negotiate and review contracts faster, and with an edge over their competitors. Our core product unlocks for the first time the years of historic legal contracts that firms have negotiated for their clients. We use the latest in data management, machine learning and language analytics to help lawyers and legal professionals write better, safer contracts. Some reasons to join DraftWise:
- Our core offering has achieved product market fit proven by our partnerships with the industries leading Vault 10, Magic Circle and AMLAW 100 firms.
- Our founding team is composed of former Palantir and Google engineers along with an experienced lawyer from a top global law firm.
- We are backed by Y-Combinator and recently raised our $20M in our Series A backed by Index Ventures
- We are a fully remote company, though offer the option to co-work in our major cities in the US and Europe.
- We are working with the latest generative AI technology and developing practical applications of it for the legal industry
- We are solving problems that matter to lawyers, and our users love us for it!
As a Legal Product Specialist you will be the internal voice-of-the-customer at DraftWise. You will work closely with our Product, Design and Engineering teams in the development and testing of new features and you will help shape our understanding of drafting, negotiation and review workflows for lawyers. You will also help communicate the value of our product to new users and customers.
In order to succeed in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator, capable of understanding technical concepts and translating complex legal concepts into terms non-lawyers can interpret.
Your day-to-day work will be a mix of:
- Keeping up-to-date with fast moving AI and legal industry trends
- Identifying truly useful applications of LLMs to the legal industry based off of your own knowledge and through interviews with other legal professionals
- Working closely with the Product team to define the vision for new DraftWise applications
- Testing new DraftWise applications and providing detailed feedback to the Design and Engineering teams
- Validating the output of generative AI models and providing labeled data to assist with the fine-tuning of such models
- Joining user and sales calls to help communicate the value of DraftWise to fellow legal professionals
We are a small team and expect all members to flexibly help wherever the company needs them the most - if you have an idea for what DraftWise needs, we want to empower you to pursue that project. You will have broad ownership over your initiatives, the ability to shape our culture as we grow and flexibility over your schedule..
What we value
- Strong communication skills in an open environment.
- Creating an environment of trust through well-intentioned feedback.
- Skills to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
- Interest in working in a dynamic environment with dynamic objectives.
About You
- 5-8 years experience practicing as a transactional lawyer in Big Law
- Experience drafting, negotiating and reviews legal agreements
- Outstanding communication skills and a flair for breaking complex legal concepts down into terms non-lawyers can understand
- Basic understanding of software and technical products and an eagerness to learn more about product development and the application of AI in the legal industry
- Passion for building a product to help legal professionals
- Technical experience as a software engineer or similar role is a nice-to-have
- In-house experience is a nice-to-have
What we offer
- All-remote work style, work anywhere. Ideally within UTC+4 to UTC-7
- Equity plan
- Competitive salary
- Private medical care
- New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories
- Generous PTO / sick leave
- Opportunity to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world
We have plenty of challenges at all levels of the stack, from the nuts and bolts of designing a processing back-end engine, VM infrastructure and NLP all the way up to building beautiful web technology.
If you have the appetite for it, you’ll be able to drive the product direction.
Product: React, Typescript, Redux, Postgres, Java, Elasticsearch
- Intro chat to share with you what we are building and to learn more about your interests and experience. We are searching for enthusiasm, ownership and autonomy. (30 mins)
- Case study where you will be presented with an early access preview of a feature we are developing and we will discuss the application of this feature to your work as a practicing lawyer (45 mins)
- Take-home project to validate the output of a DraftWise product and provide your detailed feedback on the application of that product to your work as a practicing lawyer (<2 hours)
