Legal Engineer - New York

Newcode.ai

$90K — $130K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • J.D. or equivalent legal degree.
  • Experience in a law firm, in-house role, or legal tech environment.
  • Proven track record in customer success or project management within the legal sector.
  • Experience leading workshops and onboarding initiatives for clients.
  • Strong analytical skills with a passion for AI and tech.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with legal and engineering teams to implement AI solutions.
  • Document solutions and contribute to legal engineering playbooks.
  • Lead onboarding and support for legal teams throughout the customer journey.
  • Establish and track customer milestones and renewal discussions.
  • Advocate for customer needs within the product development process.

Benefits

  • Culture of trust and excellence, valuing reliability and respect.
  • Collaborative environment with talented professionals on innovative projects.
  • Opportunity for growth and ownership in your role.
  • Commitment to an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

As a Legal Engineer at Newcode.ai, you are the critical bridge between our customers and our product & engineering team. You will embed yourself deeply into the workflows of our customers - building a genuine understanding of how they work and where AI can make a meaningful difference - then translate those insights into AI-powered solutions, optimized prompts, and structured workflows that deliver real, measurable value.

You will serve as a strategic partner throughout the entire customer journey, guiding firms from onboarding through adoption, expansion, and long-term value realization, while acting as an internal advocate for their needs and a driving force behind our AI product development. At the same time, you will bring a commercial mindset to the role - owning customer relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and getting your hands dirty configuring and improving the product itself.

In short, you are equally comfortable running a workshop with a law firm partner and contributing to a product meeting with our engineering team.
  • Drive Legal Innovation
    • Collaborate with legal, product, and engineering teams to identify, scope, and implement AI-powered legal solutions with and for our partners and clients
    • Document solutions, create internal knowledge assets, and contribute to a bank of scalable legal engineering playbooks, helping supercharge our future growth
  • Ownership of Customer Journey
    • Lead onboarding and workshops for legal teams, supporting pilot projects and ensuring successful user adoption for new workflows and tools
    • Establish clear benchmarks and milestones with customers, track progress, and own renewals and expansion discussions - proactively identifying opportunities for growth within existing accounts.
  • Strategic Enablement & Adoption
    • Identify and implement use cases that align with customer goals
    • Drive measurable adoption by deeply understanding how lawyers work, translating those insights into solutions that deliver real, tangible value - and continuously refining them as needs evolve.
  • Customer Impact
    • Serve as the internal voice of the customer - advocating for their needs, following through on feedback, and ensuring it shapes how our AI solutions and product develop
    • Identify and create market opportunities
  • Team Excellence
    • Build the team and meaning of customers success
    • Shape a culture of accountability and excellence

Requirements

Experience & Qualifications
  • Legal expertise
    • Experience in a legal environment (law firm, in-house, or legal tech), and a genuine curiosity for technology's role in enabling new frontiers for law
    • JD
  • Customer Success / Project management
    • Proven track record of implementation of AI in the legal sector, or of driving retention, expansion, and satisfaction in enterprise accounts
    • Experience facilitating workshops, onboarding, project management, and strategic account planning for customers
  • Tech fluency
    • You have a passion for tech, AI and automation, and you're always eager to experiment and learn.
    • Analytical mindset, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, evaluate AI outputs,
      and spot areas for improvement in legal processes
    • Strong data-driven mindset
  • Strong communication skills:
    • You excel at translating between legal and technical perspectives and working with diverse teams
    • High EQ and comfortable navigating C-level conversations and working with stakeholders across teams
    • Fluency in English

Who you are
  • Proactive person; you reach out, spot and go for opportunities
  • An itch to solve problems and a creative drive
  • Reliable and trustworthy
  • Co-creative; you excel in fast-paced environments and enjoy building anything from relationships to processes
  • Growth mindset: Build on feedback, iterate quickly and are motivated by delivering outcomes
  • Team player mentoring others and contributing to a culture of inclusion and excellence

Benefits
Why You'll Love Working with Us
  • Culture of trust and excellence: Be part of a team that values reliability, respect, and initiative, where everyone's contribution matters and diversity drives creativity.
  • Collaborative environment: Work with talented, driven peers on bleeding-edge legal engineering solutions with real-world impact.
  • Growth and ownership: Shape your role as we grow. Take ownership and drive outcomes from the start of your journey.
  • Inclusive culture of excellence and trust: We reward initiative, respect, integrity, and teamwork, and are committed to building a global, inclusive team. Your drive, curiosity, and ideas matter more than your background


Ready to shape what's next? Apply today and join us in building a smarter, more efficient world powered by AI.

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