Strategic Business Development

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

DraftWise is seeking Strategic Business Development Leads with top-tier legal experience to join their growing team. The role involves partnering with Account Executives to execute sales and marketing strategies, demonstrating how DraftWise's AI-powered solutions enhance legal workflows. Responsibilities include acting as a trusted advisor to prestigious law firms, private equity firms, and multinational corporations, evaluating solutions, conducting discovery, building demos, managing implementations, and forging consultative relationships. Key tasks involve engaging legal professionals, developing strategic relationships, becoming a legal technology expert, driving implementation excellence, developing marketing messaging, enhancing sales effectiveness, and conducting market research. The ideal candidate will have legal expertise, strong client-focused communication, excellent presentation skills, a passion for legal technology innovation, and potentially sales or client management experience.
Must have:
  • J.D. or LLM with experience at an Am Law 100 firm
  • Strong executive engagement skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Passion for legal technology
  • Engage legal professionals
Good to have:
  • Experience collaborating with KM&I teams
  • Experience in business development
  • Experience managing client matters
  • Experience procuring or introducing new software

Job Details

Strategic Business Development at DraftWise (S20)
Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers
New York, NY, US
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About DraftWise

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!
About the role

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Reports To: Head of Sales

**About Us:**

DraftWise is seeking Strategic Business Development Leads with top-tier legal experience to join our rapidly growing team. Ideal candidates will be lawyers who have honed their craft at leading law firms and are ready to leverage their expertise to redefine how legal professionals work.

In this role, you’ll partner with our Account Executives to guide and execute sales and marketing strategies, ensuring customers understand how DraftWise’s AI-powered solutions transform their day-to-day workflows. Acting as trusted advisors to partners and associates at some of New York’s most prestigious law firms, private equity firms, and multinational corporations, you will demonstrate how our cutting-edge technology delivers measurable value to legal teams and materially improve our company’s understanding of how we can help our best-in-the-business legal users.

As the legal counterpart to an Account Executive, you’ll help clients evaluate DraftWise solutions by conducting in-depth discovery, building tailored demos, managing client implementations, and forging consultative relationships that resonate with legal professionals. You will become a trusted advisor for law firm’s knowledge strategies.

What You’ll do

  • Engage Legal Professionals: Meet with lawyers at leading law firms to understand their workflow challenges and to demonstrate how DraftWise’s solutions for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating documents address these needs.
  • Become a Trusted Partner: Develop strategic relationships with top law firms in the industry as you help them to build innovation and knowledge strategies for their firms leveraging the latest technological breakthroughs
  • Build Expertise: Become a trusted legal technology expert, delivering tailored product demonstrations that align with specific practice areas, such as corporate governance, due diligence, or contract analysis.
  • Drive Implementation Excellence: Manage pilot implementations to ensure rapid time to value and to build user and sponsor champions of our software within early-stage customers
  • Develop Marketing Messaging: Partner with our marketing team to create impactful content that speaks directly to the needs of New York City-based law firms and corporate legal teams.
  • Enhance Sales Effectiveness: Act as a subject matter expert for our sales team, equipping them with deep insights into legal workflows to strengthen their conversations with prospective clients.
  • Drive Market Understanding: Conduct research on key players, market trends, and competitors to refine sales strategies and identify new opportunities.

What You Bring

  • Legal Expertise: J.D. or LLM with experience at an Am Law 100 firm , or similarly prestigious firm. Experience collaborating with Knowledge Management & Innovation (KM&I) teams is highly desirable.
  • Client-Focused Communication: Strong executive engagement skills, with the ability to build credibility and rapport with partners, associates, and in-house counsel at all levels.
  • Presentation Excellence: Outstanding skills in delivering persuasive presentations to legal and executive audiences.
  • Passion for Innovation: A genuine interest in legal technology and its ability to transform the practice of law. A belief that technology is a force for good when leveraged responsibly and securely. Experience procuring or introducing innovative new software to your firm or company
  • Sales or Client Experience Advantage: Experience in business development, or managing client matters is a plus, particularly if you’ve engaged directly with senior stakeholders.

**Why Join DraftWise?
**DraftWise is at the forefront of AI-powered legal technology, helping legal professionals achieve new levels of efficiency and accuracy. This is a unique opportunity to blend your legal expertise with a passion for innovation, working with a dynamic team committed to shaping the future of law in New York City, London, and beyond.

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