5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, particularly in legal hiring
Proven ability to quickly understand new roles and areas
Quantifiable success in recruitment metrics such as hires per quarter and offer acceptance rates
Majority of recent hires sourced independently
Experience with Ashby or similar ATS and practical use of AI in recruitment processes
Responsibilities
Deliver top-tier legal engineers quarterly
Manage a streamlined and effective recruiting process focused on talent quality
Identify and map legal talent across various sectors including law firms and legal tech
Evaluate candidates based on legal judgment and technical comfort with AI
Collaborate with stakeholders to adapt hiring archetypes to market changes
Analyze recruitment data weekly to optimize hiring strategies
Benefits
Opportunity to shape the future of legal tech
Work in a dynamic environment that values innovation
Collaborate with a diverse team of legal and tech professionals
Access to ongoing professional development and training
Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
Full Job Description
The Role
Legal engineers are how Wordsmith wins: lawyers who shape the product, deploy it with customers and prove what AI can do for an in-house team. The best of them are not looking for jobs. They're senior associates, in-house counsel and legal ops leads who haven't yet heard a strong case for leaving law. You'll find them, assess both their legal judgment and their technical aptitude, and convince them this is the next step in their career. This is not a coordination role.
What You'll Do
Deliver bar-raising legal engineers each quarter
Own a robust, fair and fast recruiting process that is optimized to hire the best talent vs the best interviewers.
Map legal talent across law firms, in-house teams, legal ops and legal tech, and build pipelines before roles open
Assess what matters: legal judgment, comfort with AI and data, and the ability to work with customers and engineers
Work with stakeholders on how the archetype of who we hire changes as the market does
Report on your funnel every week and fix what the data shows
What We're Looking For Essential
5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with at least some exposure of hiring in legal
You are quick at onboarding into a new area; you are able to get a deep understanding of a new role and/or new area and quickly present yourself as a knowledgeable voice
A track record you can put numbers on: hires per quarter, offer acceptance, how your hires performed
Most of your recent hires sourced by you
Fluency with Ashby or a similar ATS, and real use of AI in your own workflow
Valued
Hired for a legal tech or AI company
Hired hybrid roles that blend a profession with product or engineering
