Strategic Project Lead – Legal AI Operations
About the Role
A high-impact AI operations initiative is seeking a strategic lead to oversee legal-domain workflows supporting advanced AI model development. This role combines operational execution, stakeholder coordination, and large-scale workflow management in a fast-moving remote environment.
This opportunity is ideal for individuals with legal expertise, leadership experience, and the ability to coordinate complex projects involving specialized subject-matter experts. Candidates who can manage operational quality, communicate effectively with senior professionals, and drive execution under demanding timelines will be well suited for this role.
The work involves managing legal-focused data operations, optimizing review workflows, coordinating expert teams, and supporting AI training initiatives where precision, scalability, and process discipline are critical to success.
What You'll Do
- Lead legal-domain operational projects from planning through execution
- Manage large-scale data workflows with focus on accuracy, scalability, and process efficiency
- Coordinate teams reviewing and validating legal datasets and expert-generated outputs
- Track operational KPIs and identify opportunities for workflow optimization
- Communicate project performance, operational updates, and risks to senior stakeholders
- Collaborate with technical teams to improve workflow infrastructure and delivery systems
- Maintain high standards of data integrity across concurrent initiatives
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable process improvements
- Support execution across high-priority projects with evolving requirements
- Drive coordination between operational, technical, and legal expert teams
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree required
- 2+ years of experience in operational leadership, project management, or workflow optimization
- Background in legal operations, law, data operations, engineering, computer science, or related analytical environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience managing distributed teams or large-scale operational workflows
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced startup-style environments
- Strong organizational and execution management capability
- Comfort working with KPI tracking, process optimization, and operational systems
- Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Willingness to support demanding project timelines when required
- Experience with AI operations, human data systems, or structured review workflows preferred
- Familiarity with AI-assisted productivity and collaboration tools preferred