Legal Engineer USA

Novum Global

$120K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) with 3+ years law practice at an AmLaw 50 firm.
  • Experience in corporate, finance, disputes/litigation, or complex practice areas with client-facing experience preferred.
  • Proven ability to operate in target-driven, revenue-focused environments.
  • Strong credibility with partners and senior legal executives through expertise and AI knowledge.
  • Ability to deliver engaging presentations tailored to legal stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of legal workflows and tech trends, with capability to translate into client value narratives.
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm about AI's potential in transforming legal services.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Account Managers to shape strategies and drive customer expansion opportunities.
  • Engage senior law firm leaders to establish trust and prioritize AI and workflow transformations.
  • Lead structured discovery and analysis to identify challenges and opportunities for value.
  • Translate legal workflows into compelling use cases that align with strategic objectives.
  • Design and deliver tailored presentations that connect insights with commercial outcomes.
  • Develop proof-of-concept engagements to validate value and represent at industry events.
  • Serve as the Voice of the Customer, collaborating across teams to ensure client engagement.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work opportunity.
  • Engagement in a transformative role within the legal industry.
  • Access to a collaborative team environment with cross-functional exposure.
  • Opportunity to work directly with legal tech innovations and prominent law firms.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are transforming how law firms and legal teams deliver work, and we are looking for exceptional former AmLaw firm attorneys to help lead that change.

The Legal Engineer is a senior, consultative, customer-facing role that operates alongside our sales professionals to originate, shape, and progress complex enterprise opportunities. You will build trusted relationships with senior law firm stakeholders, conduct in-depth discovery, and deliver tailored demonstrations and insights to help our sales team successfully create expansion opportunities and demonstrate the value of our AI offerings to existing customers.

Responsibilities

  • Partnering with Account Managers to understand customer needs, shape pursuit strategies, and drive expansion opportunities from qualification through close, including positioning, objection handling, and driving stakeholder alignment.


  • Engaging managing partners, practice chairs, and firm leadership to understand priorities and position us as a trusted partner in legal AI and workflow transformation.


  • Leading senior-level discovery and structured workflow analysis to diagnose challenges, map decision makers / champions, and identify value levers, inefficiencies, and measurable ROI opportunities.


  • Translating legal workflows into clear, commercially compelling use cases and solution strategies, aligned to practice areas and firm strategic objectives.


  • Designing and delivering tailored, insight-led demonstrations and high-impact presentations that connect workflow insight, product capability, and commercial outcomes across 1:1, small group, and large group settings.


  • Developing bespoke proof-of-concept engagements to validate value and build confidence; serve as the Voice of the Customer by partnering with product/engineering/marketing/strategy, informed by customer/competitor/market research, and represent us at industry events and executive briefings.


Requirements

  • Have a JD with 3+ years of experience practicing law at an AmLaw 50 law firm


  • Have a background in corporate, finance, disputes/litigation, or other complex practice areas with demonstrable client-facing experience (preferred).


  • Be able to operate effectively in a target-driven, revenue-accountable role with a clear expansion mindset (pipeline/revenue ownership) to drive transformation and growth with existing customers.


  • Have experience establishing credibility with partners, firm leadership, and senior in-house counsel through strong executive presence, legal expertise, and AI fluency.


  • Be able to deliver persuasive, insight-led presentations and demonstrations that engage both legal and business stakeholders (including impromptu whiteboard-style and formal presentations/demos).


  • Demonstrate a deep understanding of legal workflows, legal service delivery models, and emerging legal technology trends - able to translate this into tailored, workflow-specific value narratives.


  • Demonstrate curiosity, intellectual enthusiasm, and conviction about how AI and legal technology can transform legal workflows and client delivery.


  • Be able to collaborate effectively across teams (sales, marketing, product, client success) to deliver unified client engagement strategies. Sales or customer-facing experience (including law firm business development, secondment, or experience directly managing law firm client matters/relationships) is a plus.


Success Metrics

  • AI opportunities created and revenue closed


  • Conversion cycle progression, effective at moving prospects towards signing a deal.


  • Successful implementation and adoption (playing an oversight/influencing role with post-sales teams)


Services Career search Locations Multiple locations Remote status Fully Remote

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