About this opportunity
Confidential lists this Strategic Project Lead, J.D./Legal Expertise opportunity in Lillian, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Overview
Lead end-to-end legal and law-focused projects for leading AI lab customers. You will turn customer needs into practical project plans, build high-quality domain-specific data pipelines, and coordinate Operations and Legal experts to deliver rapidly and accurately.
Key Responsibilities
Own project delivery from pipeline framing and scoping through execution and final delivery.
Translate customer requirements into clear, actionable specifications for legal workflows.
Design and continuously improve legal data pipelines for usability, accuracy, quality, and scalability.
Coordinate Operations and Legal domain experts to enable rapid deployment.
Set milestones and maintain a focused delivery cadence.
Manage clear, direct, and consistent client communications.
Lead Legal domain experts and project leads to maintain quality and timely delivery.
Provide daily internal updates on progress, blockers, and next steps.
Qualifications
J.D. or an equivalent law degree.
At least 2 years of professional experience in legal practice, legal research, regulatory or compliance work, or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or legal-related initiatives.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, including experience working with attorneys and senior Legal experts.
Strong ownership, urgency, attention to detail, and ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into clear plans and execute quickly.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment with an entrepreneurial, execution-focused mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with AI or machine learning companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
Experience managing legal, technical, or data-intensive projects.
Familiarity with legal research, contract analysis, litigation, regulatory or compliance work, or other complex legal workflows.
Familiarity with data pipelines, AI training workflows, and human-in-the-loop operations.
Work Terms
Full-time, remote role.
Compensation
Listed compensation is $400, 000 to $550, 000 per year.
The national base-salary range for this full-time role is $180, 000 to $230, 000 USD.
Employees are eligible for equity compensation and may receive performance-based bonuses, depending on role and applicable policies.
Benefits include up to 100% reimbursement for health insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with company match, and additional benefits for a high-performing remote workforce.
Eligibility
Qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable laws and regulations.
Who can apply
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